Fellow mediator, ADR blogger, road warrior Geoff Sharp recently found himself in a beautiful—but very cold—spot in the world. In his post about it, Geoff wrote,

Tammy, if your Woodbury College grad students are reading this at the start of class on a summer’s day, tell them please that this is the reality of the coalface for just one of an increasing number of mediation road warriors - but that none of us would change it for all the tea those aggressive tourists have back there in far away China.

Geoff’s right. Those of us who travel a lot as part of our mediation work find ourselves in all sorts of woeful jams. During a period that found me in Kentucky and Ohio a lot, I learned far more than I ever wanted to know about the Lexington and Cincinnati airports…at 2 a.m. I’m also recalling the time my train hit a car (driver got out before the collision), the awful landing in D.C. (luggage flying everywhere, hitting people on the head), and the drive home when I counted 43 cars off the road during an ice storm (I couldn’t even see the exits, let alone use them).

I wouldn’t trade it for the world, either, Geoff. Every minute is worth it. And they make great stories!

Last 5 posts by Tammy Lenski

• The Agile Creativity of the Skilled Mediator - August 16th, 2007
• Woodbury Faculty Member Helps Build Bridge Between US, Arab and Muslim Students - August 16th, 2007
• Musings on Being a Mediation Road Warrior - July 19th, 2007
• Accept the Offer and Move It Forward - May 15th, 2007
• The Self-Conscious Mediator - February 27th, 2007

:: Dr. Tammy Lenski is a former core faculty member in Woodbury's Mediation & Applied Conflict Studies program and founder of the Mastering Mediation blog. You can learn more about Tammy by visiting this blog's About page.