I would never profess to give advice about writing but advice about project management that I got.
I'm an ex-Project Manager. An INTP with a supper low Conscientiousness score on the Big Five Personality Traits made worse by scoring high on Openness to Experience. I love learning new things. I…
As most humans working for corporate America in the last several decades, I know my Myers-Briggs type. As a student of psychology, I also see its limits.
In the early days of my first management position, a friend, who knew of my struggles with my new job, sent me information…
It is silly to cry about the death of a spider. Although how many of us made it through Charlotte’s Web with dry eyes. So maybe not.
Yesterday I read about the death of Nefertiti — the Phidippus johnsoni AKA a Red-Backed Jumping Spidernaut (granted I’m a bit late, her…
What did Gandhi say? Not the sound bite, but the actual text?
“We but mirror the world.
All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. …
I’ve always approached writing as a business. In the early 2000s, while working at my mother’s bookstore, I noticed a new trend and jumped on it. I ended up writing erotica for 5 years. I stopped when I became a director of a dance and gymnastics academy. …
…none of the morning rituals they talk about will ever work for me — and I don't think I'm alone.
You know you are with me here. There is nothing quite so soothing as reading about high performers' morning rituals. You bask in the reflected glow of someone who has…
Technically winter doesn't start for a while, but the Fall harvest season is almost done. A storm is bringing near-freezing weather to us. My squash and melons are already gone; peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and surprisingly the lemongrass are holding their own. …
Every site on migraines always says some variant of the “you’ll probably want to rest quietly” advice. Who the hell gets to do that?
I remember my mother having migraines when I was a child. She’d muscle through the day, errands, dance lessons, housekeeping, and would end up taking valium…
When I was younger, and the days seemed longer, I would revisit books I’ve read before every year. There was something soothing about reentering a world I knew so well and yet would often surprise me. How we read in our teens changes in our twenties, and again as each…
