And the writing continues… Writing Prompt 2/300: Have you ever spoken up when you saw something going on that was wrong? Were you scared? What ended up happening? I’d say that I am pretty good at observing subtle dynamics within groups of people that are often innate and yet when you really stop to think about it are blatantly wrong!… Read more →
Category: everyday learning
Writing Prompts – Day 1
Today is J’s first day of daycare and I am having mixed emotions about his big boy moments and my independence. I am excited that he will get exposed to new people, activities, germs (this one has already started) and routines. In return, I get the space to work on all the stuff that went on the back burner for the… Read more →
Back at it!
I have quite literally taken FAR too long a break from this blog, giving myself time to reflect and process and just plain using my brain for this kind of stuff. For the most important reason of all, I became a Mama! While I absolutely love love love love love love (I could keep going…) LOVE my kid. I know… Read more →
Friday Reflections #FrF Wash & Fold
In our NYC adventure, we have been to museums, nice restaurants and not so fancy-but-still-delicious restaurants, wander the streets as much as we could take it in the heat and somehow the event I feel I need to write about is our trip to the laundromat. It just felt like the most New Yorker thing we have done yet. The… Read more →
Friday ReFlections (but not on Friday) #FrF
Ok, so it was clearly bound to happen that I would fall off the wagon. I thought about it all day on Friday, what was I going to write about. What was I thinking? So much had happened and it was a good week and then of course life swooped in and said, “actually, I need your attention over here…”… Read more →
Friday reFlections #FrF Connectivity & Translation
Starting a tradition only works if you keep at it. It would have been easy to let this fall off the wagon this week, but here I am! I am going to push through this. This week has been super busy. By Monday evening I already felt like it had been a whole week’s worth of insight, connections and energy.… Read more →
Friday reFlections #FrF
It is Friday afternoon and I thought I would make up a new tradition. When I used to work in an office everyday, Fridays were the days when people mellowed out from the week’s grind. There were longer lunches, chats about what was happening on the weekend and things are winding down. Especially as the days are heating up, I… Read more →
Think Different.
I just discovered a really great quote. In 1997, Steve Jobs put it so eloquently. In posters for Apple, this quote completely resonates with me and I didn’t know they existed until now. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond… Read more →
How to be a Shift Disturber?
Part innovator. Part entrepreneur. Part rebel. Partly undefined. A shift disturber is really about making changes, shaking things up, provoking a reaction, creating a dialogue, venturing out to the fringes and doing a lonely little dance. Since the term was first coined, there are a few of us who have been tossing the term around and testing out the shift disturbing spectrum.… Read more →
When the power goes out
You can’t always predict when it’s coming or how long it will last, sometimes just before it happens there is a flicker. It is like you blinked a little longer than usual and before you know it, the power is out. And you are left wondering what happened and what to do next. You can no longer rely on your… Read more →