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Mount Whitney, Because It Sounded Like A Good Idea at the Time…

Mount Whitney, Because It Sounded Like A Good Idea at the Time…

Nothing says “coping” like altitude sickness and a 16-hour hike through life metaphors. I read somewhere that when life is overwhelming and you have too much on your plate, you should add one more goal. I’m not sure that I agree with that little gem, but I desperately needed something, anything, else to focus on other than work… So, Mount Whitney it is! Because nothing soothes a frazzled soul quite like voluntarily ascending into oxygen deprivation. Other people do yoga…

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Hard Stops and Frozen Faces: Surviving the Soul-Crushing Hilarity of Virtual Meetings

Hard Stops and Frozen Faces: Surviving the Soul-Crushing Hilarity of Virtual Meetings

Out of the Pandemic came the now widely accepted virtual meeting, taking the place of any actual physical human interaction. And sure, there are a myriad of advantages to this: The Pajama Meeting Renaissance You can have meetings with anyone around the world at the drop of a hat! You can have meetings dawned in your favorite sweats or PJ bottoms! No one will know and there is a 99% chance the other person is wearing something that should never…

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My Midlife Crisis Has A Parachute…

My Midlife Crisis Has A Parachute…

I guess when you’ve been stripped of almost everything you’ve known about yourself for the past 25 years, there is some freedom in sort of re-creating yourself. I mean, really what choice do you have? Might as well have some fun and do some shit your former self would never have done. What do you have to lose? It is liberating to start with a clean slate. Part of my emancipation from former self, if you will, came from our…

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To the Peeps who EMAIL IN BOLDFACE CAPS….

To the Peeps who EMAIL IN BOLDFACE CAPS….

One of the many many perks in my position of what I can only describe as a real-life whack-a-mole or really anything Ryan doesn’t have time for (read anything he doesn’t want to do), is Customer Service. It is also great fodder for this blog. I mean the anonymity alone brings out the best in humanity. Who doesn’t want to take out their personal frustrations on the faceless punching bag on the other side of the screen? SCREAMING and Profanity…….

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Back from the Brink… and Still Kicking!

Back from the Brink… and Still Kicking!

Sometimes you just need a little perspective, to have some space and time in between your blog and the real-life events unfolding before you. Toby Keith said it best with , “As soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye, we lit up your world like the fourth of July!” Ah, Toby. He is missed. Back to my hiatus. I found myself in a hard space. Not able to write, both legally and energetically the way I…

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