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Word of 2025: SPACE

I like a little poetry in my word of the year. Something I can put into metaphor and stick into the last line of a […]

My time blindness was real tonight. I made a little post-work agenda for myself that looked like this: And then, wow, done by 7:30 to […]

This is not the word I’ve been mulling over the past few weeks. After a year of Waves, I’ve been wanting something steadier. Grounded. Centered. […]

Yesterday, I did my fourth annual workshop for my coworkers on choosing a “Word of the Year”. I wrote a detailed blog on the workshop […]

I subscribe to James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter that goes out every Thursday. He’s the author of Atomic Habits (a great book I first read in […]

I dusted off the old Pomodoro technique to get some work done today. That’s the productivity method where you set a timer for 25 minutes […]

I listened to a Ted Talk tonight while doing some parental leave prep: How to Get Better At The Things You Care About. Description: Working […]

I open my blog google document, where I sometimes work on drafting poems, and find the latest line alone on a page, “Am I UNHINGED”. […]

There’s a meditation metaphor I learned early on, way back in 2015 in my first days of using the Headspace meditation app: that no matter […]

90 days became 120 became a year, became two, became three and now here we are at five years, 1825 days (or 1827 right now) […]