Day to day, it’s relatively easy to be an executive, at least a new one in the environment I am in. I am decisive and opinionated; my ideas about how we should be doing things are fresh and generally well-received, especially when I communicate them well (read: POWERPOINTS FOR DAYS). And still! I’m younger, more…
This goofy boy stole my heart on Dec 7, or maybe Dec 6 when I saw his profile online. It was another 10 days before I was allowed to foster this “behavioral issue” dog, and another 9 after that before we sent the “we will adopt him please” email. Today, January 3, 2023, is the…
ah, the magic, magic holidays. so much to be grateful for around the season, be it my super amazing family with its uncomplicated relationships, my own magical uncomplicated relationship approaching its one-year(!) mark, the new addition to our lil fam with his own goofy, needy, perfect magic, or my super-fun-challenging new job with its super-fun-challenging…
“It is a delightful thing, while the great sea rages, to watch from the land another struggling with the waves: not because this is in itself a delight; yet it is a delight to watch calamities from which you feel yourself safe. So to look on a battle from some safe point of view. But nothing is more delightful than, from some serene stronghold of knowledge, to look down upon the wanderings and errors of other men, and their efforts after mere wealth and power, rather than knowledge and a quiet mind.” The first words of the opening of the second book of the Latin poet Lucretius, De Rerum Nalura. We found these words on the wall of a cantina called Tropico 56 in Merida, Mexico, where the driver we hired for the day on the recommendation of a man we met outside of a bathroom who said I look like I spoke English used to be the manager, en…
It’s been six months my achilles repair surgery of a complete rupture. I’m exceptionally grateful to my surgeon Dr. Andreo and my incredible PT team at Mondo Sports Therapy, Katie and Justin are the absolute best. I’m running sprints at 90% bodyweight (on an alter-g treadmill), jumping laterally onto and off of a 20″ box,…
… and bolsters, which is really what I’m into, especially because they’re: GOTS certified (fair trade & organic process) non-toxic fabrics & dyes plastic free packaging have a removable cover & inner casing for easy cleaning ethically made—learn more here cute af! If you don’t remember, I am obsessed with my X-Tall Scoria yoga mat, which I’ve…
Y’all, I made a critical wrong choice. I KNOW as myself that I need sunshine and time outside. But when cedar is high and my allergies go insane, I chose to stay inside. Based on the amount of mind I lost on Tuesday night, that was the WRONG MOVE. I had worked a couple long…
Last year was incredible. It just might have been the most I’ve ever lived up to my word: Grace. I went through some shit, sure, and ended the year on a decidedly un-graceful note with an achilles rupture and subsequent surgery, but taken on the whole, I did a good job of giving myself grace,…
Books I have read since 12/26/21: Transcendent Kingdom – great exploration between science and religion; recommend it although I did not it as much as I loved her first novel Homegoing People We Meet on Vacation – a bit predictable but entertaining nonetheless First Comes Love – ditto but also interesting that both this and…
I am apparently experiencing the WSOD… white screen of death. So we’re trying to keep posting from mobile, which is frankly a terrible experience. But it’s all for you, dear readers! Read on for things I’ve been saving to share with you. A great crowdsourced doc on WTF is Web3? Then, a great commentary on…