November is Native American Heritage Month, so I decided to host a lunch and learn at work today around this Ted Talk: Why aren’t there […]
The Best Person
I’m hiring right now in my job and I’m excited to have so many candidates who are women of color in my pipeline. It’s important […]
The Way to X
Unfold the map and guessWhich X marks the spotThere’s more than oneIn red, in blue, permanent, erasable I do the calculations in my headIf this, […]
Heavy Day
It’s been a heavy day for news — a coworker in the hospital, a death in a direct reports family, another peer handling a tragic […]
Writing Update: The Kissing Parts
53.5K words through my revision. I think this will end up ~80K. Maybe closer to 78K. We’ll see how much I need to flesh out […]
Another Week
Ah, yes. Another week to quarantine. When a friend who stays over in your home finds out that it wasn’t allergies and was, in fact, […]
Writing Update: Revisions
After a two-week break, once I finished draft zero, I’m back to writing this week. I spent the break resting my brain and then getting […]
Two Tattoos
It’s been over two and a half years since my last tattoo and I have a build-up of ideas. The pandemic, along with delaying my […]
Writing Update: Closer
I feel so close to getting done with this draft . . . but my word count tells me I have a couple of weeks […]
Juneteenth 2021
It’s Juneteenth today and for the first time, it is recognized as a federal holiday. Next year, it will be a holiday at my work […]