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Let’s get it all on the table…those of you who have known me (or read my stuff) for a while, know full well that there were some things about working at Amazon that made me batshit crazy. It was a hard, and often thankless, job. I cried in the bathroom a few times too many, […]
Each time I move somewhere new I go through a cycle related to friendship, loss, and suddenly seeing things more clearly. I get buried in my own feelings and miss moments of true beauty. I am human…and this is one of my many flaws. Let me back up… Less than 3 months ago, I moved […]
Some cities have ghosts. Berlin has ghosts. But…then…of course it does. More on that in a moment. I have this travel habit that I always try to honor when I got to a new place. If a city has a known history of trauma, I try to visit those sites or memorials. I have a […]
My intention for 2018 is to be filled with WONDER… I will look in Wonder at everything around me…from the mundane fact of how much my cats trust me to feed them everyday to the beauty of seeing countries with my own eyes that I’ve only previously read about in books. I will Wonder […]
As I mentioned in my post about Wandering…I am obviously in a time of transition. Certain things…namely my responsibilities at work…get firmer every day. While other things…the being alone…feel more fluid and changing. I am in the middle places…and I’m alone in it…even when I have others around me. I am between my beautiful West […]
Authors Note: This is the first edition of “Things I Can’t Do…Yet”. I say first edition, because the chances that I’m likely to find 10 to 100 more things that I can’t fucking figure out are super high. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve recently moved to Stockholm, Sweden for a job. Before […]
Before Friday, if you had asked me to define the “transition period” in this move to Stockholm, I would have told you it was the 2 months leading up to arriving in Stockholm. I would have shared how long that time felt, how weary I got of the preparations, and how displaced I felt with […]
My annual review earlier this year consisted of 3 sentences: * You need to be willing to ask for help more often * You need to work to have a more consistently positive attitude * You are doing a remarkable job leading the team through adversity While not my most helpful review ever, it was […]
Today is the day. It’s finally here. I leave the US today to live in Stockholm for a while. Everyone has asked if I’m anxious or nervous. The truth is…I feel a lot of things. I feel (and have been feeling) all of these emotions at the same time and each one individually from time to […]