(Good) Grief
Grief has a funny way of taking over. It can be all-consuming, interfering with the most minor life routines, let alone the big rocks. It’s a topic that doesn’t get its fair play, and society often expects individuals passing through grief to shrug it off, pull up their bootstraps, and fake it ‘til they make…Read More
The Road to Redemption
Life is a journey. Take the road less traveled. Not all who wander are lost. Philosophers, poets, and authors alike would like the message to sink in: life moves with or without us, so take the journey and have an adventure. Sometimes, the journey takes us on wild goose chases, detours, U-turns, treacherous paths, and…Read More
Selling IT
Over the weekend I was checking my social media. I’ve recently found a new fascination with the dressed-up-chicks videos. A bunch of baby chickens dressed in colorful outfits and silly antics really crack me up. There’s not enough laughter these days; the world has become an overly serious place, and baby chicks wearing snorkels and…Read More
Compatibility
I was recently surprised to learn someone with whom I crossed paths on occasion passed away. Having distanced myself, purposely, from the shared connection, I really had no reason to keep up with the deceased, although his recent divorce, quite public and published, kept his personal life in the news for some time. In many…Read More
Getting Handsy
Except for writing, I have forever been a hands-on fumbler. Anyone who looks behind the pictures hanging on my walls can see that my knack for home improvement is lacking: there are more holes than a whack-a-mole gameboard. The irony is that I come from a long line of home improvement, construction savvy ancestors who…Read More
Kissgate
The internet is currently ablaze with the very public outing of a CEO who was caught behaving badly in a very open forum. When discovered, the executive issued a half-baked apology that seemingly blamed others for invading his private (affair) moment and exploiting his personal business. Like the rest of social network society, I initially…Read More