Everything changes. That is an overused platitude that is supposed to be a comfort when you are uncomfortable with a shift, or suddenly moved from one state of being to another. The new place might be just fine but you aren’t used to it and you have to adjust. ‘Everything changes,’ someone will say as…
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I received an email the other day, actually I receive emails everyday but this one I found particularly interesting because it said it would help me live a more secure life knowing my identity was safe. Honestly I feel pretty safe in my current identity, not having any sense that I don’t know who I…
Mere days ago my husband and I celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary. We agreed that is didn’t feel like we had been married for a long time. A lot of stuff has happened for sure, but it just doesn’t feel long. I said, “I just feel like I know you really well.” He said, “yep,…
Recently I ordered a few things online from a brand that I like. Nothing I needed, just a few things I wanted. And I was quite pleased with my purchases when they came, until today. Today I got an email alert letting me know that all sale items were now 25% off in addition to the…
How long is the “new dog” new for? He was used, so to speak, when we brought him home so he was always only ever new to us. But even in that new-ness how long do we get to say, “well he’s new and just settling in?” Perhaps until we get a newer dog? We…
I recently heard David Brooks being interviewed on the radio, he wrote a book and is busy making the promotional rounds. I was interested in the book generally but I was really interested in something he said that he found interesting and which had informed some of what he was writing about: fifty years ago…
I write a lot about my experiences flying because I fly a lot – so I have material. Much of what I write is snarky or an expression of my annoyance with my fellow passengers, the TSA, airlines, really all of it because there is a lot of material out there. For instance I might…
I read many professional resources for managing business, employees, life, balance – I like to gather lots of perspectives on how to simply manage it all and it is curious to me how much information out there contradicts so much other information out there, and how much of all of that good advice would require…
Admitting mistakes is very difficult for many of us. Even people who are not perfectionists don’t tend to like standing up and saying, “well I really messed that up, oops.” It just doesn’t feel good to say that you were wrong, or you messed up, or that you should have done it the one way…
The worst grade I got in college was a D, objectively a bad grade. I still got credit for the class, but probably it would have been better if I had just dropped and started again. Up until the final paper I had a high A – it was an intro to American history lecture.…
Faith Works 