Team, I’ve been struggle-busing for the last few days. Some of the stress and emotional labor I’m working through started to manifest in my body, […]
Seeking Counsel
“Check me on this,” I say. And then say more. I want to know if my goals are realistic. I want to know if I’m being naive. I want to know if I’m doing the right things right now.
Refridgerator Vision Board
I’ve been extra introspective these last few weeks around my potential futures: career, geography, family, finance. As I work through the dissonance of loving where […]
The Muffin Story
I read a short fanfiction story a few years ago that sewed itself into my resolve. I was married and deeply unhappy and spent whatever […]
I Am So Lucky
Spending a weekend with my mom shows me the brighter side of the coin: how joyful it is to just be together and have fun. We spend more time sewing seeds than trimming branches. More time painting vision’s for the future than spreading balm on the wounds of the past. I love that about my mom. Even when I was a child, she took what I said seriously. I think it gave me faith in my voice that saved me in the foggier moments.
The Magical Mumbo Jumbo
Do you remember when the book The Secret came out? I was in high school when I remember the craze. Every time I checked the book out of the library for a patron I really just wanted to know what the secret was. One of my friends read it and loved it and tried to explain. But I didn’t get it. It sounded like magical mumbo jumbo and this from the girl who would do nearly anything to believe in magic.
Enchanted Rock
There is a ghost story about Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country. A Native American brought his daughter to the summit and sacrificed her […]
The Damage of Working on PTO
Often when I take PTO from work I go into “low power mode” … I’m not working … but I’m also not not working. I’m glancing at my email even if I’m not handling it, I’m responding to Slack messages like text messages, I actually sit down at my computer and knock a few things out.
Loneliness at Work
Our monthly lunch & learns with our leadership program graduates is leaning more and more towards personal success practices rather than hardcore work topics. But topics like stress, and failure, and loneliness, and forming new habits, and managing your time are hardcore work topics. Whether we like it or not, we live integrated lives.
Rhyming for My Father
For my dad, on his birthday My dad taught me to write poems that rhyme So now I think of him every time And mark […]