I finished reading Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski this week and I can’t seem to shut up […]
Puppy Chow Magic
I don’t enjoy cooking or baking, but twice a year I make puppy chow. It’s an old habit. I actually remember the first time I […]
One Caring Adult
Yesterday I attended the annual Shining Stars Luncheon for Foster Angels of Central Texas. Foster Angels is an amazing local nonprofit that supports foster youth. […]
Writing Update: A Look at the Numbers
Inevitably if people find out you’re working on a novel (and I’m not necessarily being shy about it be posting internet updates each week) they ask what you’re going to do with it i.e. are you going to publish it?
Speak Your Body’s Language
Yesterday I began listening to the Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski. I don’t need to get very far into this book to highly recommend it. Twenty minutes in and I felt like it was changing my life.
Camping at the Renaissance Faire
This weekend I camped out at the Sherwood Renaissance Faire. If you’ve never done this, here’s the short version: sleeping in the woods, drinking mead, crowns and corsets and swords, live jousting, people watching, turkey legs, horning beers, shopping for quill sets and dragon glasses, rude humor, clan parties, more mead, more food, more woods.
Close Enough
Today, advice from my brother
Who gave me a gift on his birthday
When he was nine or ten or eight
Colored sand in a bottle
Purple and pink and yellow
Maybe, I don’t have the bottle
But I have that thought
He gave me a gift on his birthday
A Little Career Advice for Young Professionals
I am not in a position to give a wealth of wisdom to young professionals. Being a young professional myself, only five years out of school, I have far from unlocked the secrets of career success. I look to my peers and mentors on our leadership team; their steady example of leadership in action is teaching me how to be a better leader and a better human.
My Car’s Name Is Keith
So I’m one of those people who name things. It seems like there are two solid camps here: people who name and label staplers (like my former coworkers in my hometown library) and the people who give me WTF faces when I ask what they are going to name their new iPad.