The Grace of Work
I’m a control freak. This week, several different situations either arose, or intensified, and I didn’t have control over any of it. Which makes me sort of crazy. When the crazy hits, I am appreciative...
View ArticleYou can go your own way
If you can’t seem to work out putting something that’s genuinely important front and center in your life, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It doesn’t mean that thing isn’t really important to you....
View ArticleIn Praise of Sincerity
Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He’s gotta pick this one. He’s got to. I don’t see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this...
View ArticleYou have the right to remain silent
We certainly are a chatty culture, aren’t we? At the beginning of the month, in the throes of election hysteria, people seemed like they couldn’t stop talking, tweeting, blogging, emailing and...
View ArticleLittle Boxes
I am very good at compartmentalizing. At a certain point in my life, I had two options. Get good at compartmentalizing, or just keep falling to pieces every day until some very deep wounds healed. So I...
View ArticleThinking about the future, thinking about the past
I’ve been thinking about the future this last week, and thinking about the past. This year has been very good in terms of my career, but pretty much none of my career advancements were planned in the...
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