Tag: Career Change

Fear & Self-Loathing in Lean In Pages

December 14, 2018

I’m consuming the “fall” of Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg with almost a morbid satisfaction. After the New York Times revealed executives at Facebook are…

Reading the Cheese Curds

August 13, 2018

Reading the cheese curd is a bit like reading the tea leaves for a cheese nerd. Actually, cheese makers really do read the cheese curds looking…

Time is Written in the Garden Weeds

May 16, 2018

My writing group teases me about numbers. I like numbers. They always appear in my writing. My writing group thinks my use of numbers is a symptom of my engineering past. I think using them is innate to me and how I function. Did my need to measure and quantify come before I went into engineering or did engineering turn me into a number cruncher?

Reality Check about Recreational Cooking Class

May 3, 2018

Last night, I taught a cooking class in pie making focusing on two methods for crust. The location felt making a quiche and a double crust…

What to write, what to write, what to write?

April 19, 2018

Hello world. I am stuck. I don’t know what to write in this space anymore. So, I am taking a writing workshop at GrubStreet in Boston….

Bailing the Ship, Kicking off Ego Pirates

March 14, 2018

I love water sports. Unfortunately, my ego has gotten in the way of spending much time on the water lately. My never-ending battle to keep my…

This IS what I do. Really, it is.

February 24, 2018

“What do you do for a living?” The question came before I launched into my usual witty and entertaining introduction that sets the class at ease….

Plan, Move, Repeat.

July 9, 2017

As the theme I’ve been using for these posts reflecting on my life is irresponsibility, I’ll tell you about my recklessly meticulous planning for the road…

Irresponsibility continued.

July 5, 2017

Rereading my last post (here’s a picture of me for fun), I realize there are so many little things I wanted to include that would really…