via GIPHY Here’s yet another COVID-related post for you. My husband and I were having socially-distanced drinks in our friends’ backyard over the weekend, and we were talking about our larger group of friends and all of the things they did together over the summer. Because my husband and I…
It’s clear that people are tired of living this pandemic lifestyle. They’re over the masks, the distancing, the staying at home. And I get it. I’m sick of it, too. But I’m committed to continuing to live this pandemic lifestyle because the situation hasn’t improved. In fact, where I am,…
via GIPHY This is the time of year that my husband and I usually take our annual vacation. We like it because it coincides with our anniversary and his birthday, most of our colleagues are in the office and able to cover for us because they took their vacations over…
I started a new job last week! As I was starting to learn the ropes, and then reflecting on my experience over the weekend, I thought about this blog. I wanted to write about how exhilarating/intimidating/exhausting/difficult it is to learn something new, and share that it’s important to cut ourselves…
Today, I’m comin’ atcha with something a little different: my experience randomizing into a COVID vaccine trial. I want to share this to remove some of the mystery of the process and, in doing so, hopefully encourage more people to participate, as well as point out some serious shortcomings. When…
Let’s talk about permission marketing. Again. Back in February (which feels like a lifetime ago), I wrote about a local entrepreneur who sent me three emails a day, hustling their services. Last week, something similar—but decidedly different—happened. I got an email from one of my LinkedIn connections sent via an…
It’s hurricane season for the Atlantic, which means that many areas are turning their attention and their resources to preparation and response efforts. This is important and urgent work. My last post rant about work/life boundaries didn’t mention this, but I wanted to address it this week: while a lot…
Can we talk about boundaries? I often write about work/life balance, vacation travel, self care, and related rants, but I feel like I need to address something more basic, maybe because so many more people—entire organizations, even—now live at work work from home. I keep a list of topics to…
At the beginning of the year, I created a clothing spending tracker so that I can monitor my shopping behavior in order to better manage my spending on new clothing. Thanks to a bit of a spending spree in January that I justified because it was my birthday month, I…
I’ve been a “regular” at a lot of places over the course of my life. Growing up, my family loved this one Mexican restaurant by our house that was always changing names, and we usually sat in the same corner booth. In college, I always got coffee and a bagel…
