When I launched this Substack the premise was to ask whomever is reading if whatever I am writing about makes sense. It’s still the premise. Yet as I sit here in the aftermath of the 2024 Election nothing makes sense to me. Nothing. I am physically numb – that kind of numb that runs through […]
The Only Real Constant Is Change
When I was interviewed for my first job in media my soon-to-be new boss asked me how I felt about change. My response was easy. I loved it. That was why I was sitting in his office. I was looking for change. I wanted a new direction. I hadn’t been in the workforce for very […]
Joy May Not Be A Strategy But It’s A Great Way To Execute One
At the end of every semester I teach I hold my breath when I read my evaluations, prepping myself for that one student that I didn’t reach who waited until then to unload their grievances. This summer semester was no different. There was the one. But there were also all the other ones that I […]
Not Everything Can Be Predicted By An Algorithm
What we can learn from the Harris/Walz 2024 Campaign When I was younger I had a habit of reading the last pages of a book before I was finished. I would often be so consumed with trying to figure out how the story was going to end that I grew impatient. I had to know. […]
The Power In Pausing
a lesson from my mother we could all use now My mother was an old-school creative. Her creativity was at its best as a baker and in the clothes she sewed by hand. My brother and I would often tease her that if she had been born in today’s world she would have been one of those […]
The Power in “Me Being Me”
And How Social Media Can Distort That The intense heat this week had me obsessed with weather reports, switching from the uselessness of the Weather App to the equally uselessness of the weather reports on television, both of which give me more information than I need and seem to take forever to get to the […]
