Tag: midlife crisis

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…

Suddenly, I Cried Crocodile Tears

December 4, 2018

I had barely gotten to the end of the headline that the 2019 Class of Rhodes Scholars was the most diverse ever when a lump formed…

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…

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…

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…

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….