Act II
A hospice nurse asked me if my mother had always been a stoic. I snort-laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe […]
Real World Re-Entry
There’s no Advil for this hangover. Not the too much wine-at-dinner kind, but the return-from-Conference World haze. The ride home
Conference Life
I learned in my twenties never to trust a Texas man without a cowboy hat. So naturally last night at
Reruns
We’re all guilty of it—telling ourselves reruns of stories that should’ve been canceled after season one. I’ll mess it up.
Professional Yearning
Fall sneaks in like a moody novel; shorter days, colder nights, the perfect backdrop for yearning. Not the situationship kind,
Am I a Bulldozer?
Once upon a job interview, the feedback about me was: “Hire this woman, she’s a bulldozer.” Not exactly the compliment
Professional Ghost Mode
Posting on professional media sometimes feels like wandering through an open-world quest: you drop knowledge, you leave a trail of
How to get Promoted
Being “Good at your job” isn’t a promotion plan… one of my coaching clients came in hot this week: “I
The Real Stuff
You know what never makes it into the project plan? The living. The actual life stuff. Nobody books a Teams
Vendor Chaos
This week was brought to you by 30+ hours of meetings and one vendor’s trippy finger that made 184 PDFs