“Ok, good. I thought something was wrong with Joe.” (Joe is my dear husband.) This was, maybe, five years ago? I went through it again about 15 months ago. I had already been through it in a BIG BIG, life-changing way 13 years ago when I switched from managing botanical gardens to the type …
Best If Used By …
You clean out the actual fridge for a lot of different reasons. I’m thinking this whole “cleaning out the refrigerator” metaphor is really useful. In business terms. I Have To Treat My Business Like A Refrigerator. For the most part, cleaning out the actual refrigerator is not an emotional job …
Tell Me What you Want
I had a really great day last Saturday. Why? I saw a sign pointing to a fish fry and I followed it. Arriving onsite was like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. At least, it was for this girl who misses people and new experiences. And, …
Kind of a Big Deal
Four years ago today I fired off some snarly text messages to my friend Kim in the middle of dinner. I was eating what would become my traditional pre running race dinner: a moderately sized plate of spaghetti and meatballs.And I was bricking it. The cause of my angst? I was running the 5K …
How’d You Guess?
I've been reading a lot about how election polling works. Because I'm a nerd. And I'm interested in how organizations try to predict the outcome of elections. It seems like it would be a real shot in the dark. What I found is that the accuracy of a prediction (from a poll) depends …
My Favorite Four Words to Say
"Send me the bill. (If you read my subject line as "My favorite four [LETTER] words," my apologies. I have plenty of those for sure. But my favorite four words to hear and to say: Send me the bill. Why I like saying "send me the bill." It allows me to set a boundary. "Send me the bill. …
The Day After
Last time we talked, I was finishing up a 13 hour day. I try not to do those on the regular, but I was providing Red Phone Service. It was my responsibility, as the business owner, to do that. The next morning I went to the beach. On a Tuesday. I went swimming. I walked. I made a little …
The Red Phone Service
It's 8:49 on Monday night. Steph's gonna kill me. I should already be in bed. Tomorrow is probably gonna be a little rough. (I promise to attempt cheer.) I'm the 911 Operator for my clients. Basically, if one of them has an emergency, ultimately, the buck stops with me. If they need …
Inside the Line
We know each other by our lines. That seemingly "throwaway line" spoken by one character near the end of a novel I absolutely loved (scroll down for link), has continued to stick with me for weeks. Maybe because that line helped another character resolve the main mystery of the book. We know …
The Reset I Didn’t See Coming
"Forward is a pace." I woke up this morning and started doomscrolling Facebook. Tangent: Every time I think "THAT is the word of the year," I read a new one starting to take hold. In addition to studies about virus, I expect studies about the pace of the change of language in 2020. Back to …
