Since Brené Brown is one of my spiritual masters, I jumped at the chance to bring part of her Dare to Lead curriculum into my […]
Writing Update: Countdown
Current word count: 72,900 Estimated final word count: 80,000 Days to Deadline: 4 Status: On Track I’m so close to the end, that I’ll save […]
Don’t Stay In Your Lane
Here’s a general piece of advice that helped me in my career these last five years: don’t stay in your lane. By that, I mean: […]
Finding Mentors
When I moved in an HR position over three years ago, I signed up for a mentoring program through the local HR group. As a […]
Saturday Gratitude
It’s been a spell since I’ve intentionally practiced gratitude. So on this lovely Saturday, I want to say some thank yous: To my Spider-Man boxer […]
Lover
There are only a few albums that motivate me to get up earlier to run before the sun’s up, sneaking in exercise before an early […]
Plan A
Some stories, you know in their telling, are a privilege to hear. My coworker, Jenny, adopted two beautiful twin girls from birth. They are turning […]
A Tendency to Catastrophize
We are going through a lot of change right now in my workplace. I’ve seen people process this change with a range of reactions: speculation, […]
Writing Update: The Fervor
I send a few pictures to my friends at the tail-end of my writing session. They are selfies captioned with expressions of my anxiety at […]
Against All Odds
“It was such a throwaway sound now, that laugh. An easy one that said it could be spent so easily because there were more where that one came from. The wound was healing against all odds; the victim would make it after all.”