I’ve been working in a new office for over three months, now. It’s small but mighty, comprised of a handful of really decent people who take organization and attention to detail to a whole new level. I’ve been thinking, however, that all those pretty, straight, and color-coded lines are the bedrock for truly great humor. […]
Read MoreI slept deeply, dreamlessly, a void in the black hole of my room. When the pain dragged me slowly to the surface, my subconscious fought back at a primal level. I did not want to wake up. My hip throbbed from bearing most of my weight, the touchpoint between my roaring body and a bed […]
Read MoreThe Big Uh-Oh is the birthday immediately preceding the Big Five-Oh. The one where you’re going along in life, minding your own business and then boom you have an epiphany in the dressing room at JCPenney’s. Your mother was right. We are not going to call and tell her so. Several choice words escaped my lips […]
Read MoreOkay, here’s the deal. I have been called a perfectionist, a fairly over-zealous housekeeper, and an over-thinker. While this is sometimes undervalued in the kid-raising environment, I understood it to be a bonus in the work environment. That place called a “real job in the real world”, the place that looks for buzzwords like “organized” […]
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