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…
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Ethnically Ambiguous, Please Don’t Stare
November 29, 2018
“I hate how Europeans like to stare,” I said to my husband. We had landed in the Azores on that morning’s redeye from Boston. After an…
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Catching My Breath
November 14, 2018
It’s been over a month since I wrote anything here. So much for that “goal” to write a blog post every week. After I wrote about Christine…
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One Powerful Voice – Thank You Dr. Ford
October 10, 2018
Christine Balsey Ford slipped out of Washington after her testimony. I presume she went somewhere to be safely obscured from prying eyes and dangerous threats. Wherever…
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MotoTherapy: I Would Ride10,000 Miles
September 19, 2018
On Sunday, the odometer on my motorcycle ticked over to 10,000 miles most of which were ridden in solitude. Quite a feat considering I only got…
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Rewiring Me: My Ride One Year Later
August 21, 2018
A year ago this week, I woke at 6:00 a.m. I donned my motorcycle gear and propped my phone on the ground with rocks. I took…
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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…
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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?
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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…
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