Just Bloggin’

I’ll be honest, I don’t want to go back to the “normal” we had in February. I was killing myself with business travel. It was a slow sort of killing … but killing nonetheless. I was on a train most weeks and a plane most…

The thing that really frustrates me about the crises I’ve seen in my life is that, by and large, the financial devastation is 100% avoidable. Absolutely, 100% avoidable. Covid-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of people. That’s real and it’s not up for debate. I…

Getting serious for a moment: It’s time to stop pretending that, if we can only hold out long enough, everything is going to go back to exactly how it was before this pandemic. It is not. Please ignore what our so-called leaders are saying about…

I love staying in touch with you, my far-flung network of friends and family. I use this platform to do that. I love seeing the snapshots from your lives, your pets, your children. I love hearing about your spouses and houses and hobbies.I usually fight…

I find myself wondering, this morning, how we can begin to reduce the amount of anger in the world. The snap responses and rage seem to appear and re-escalate every attempt to defuse and begin to heal our cultural divides. And I realize as I…

Two weeks ago, I was in Atlanta, GA – working for the Center for Disease Control (and prevention too!). That’s a cool gig. Last week, I was in Hampton, VA – working for the Science Directorate of NASA. That’s also a cool gig – but…

I’m writing design slides on a Sunday. This is part of an effort to get in front of an out-of-control project at work – whose details may someday make it into my memoirs. Oh precious memoirs – to be published when I never intend to…

Finding it hard to post non-friends-locked stuff when all the interesting bits of my life are happening at work. Perhaps this is the insane travel schedule kicking in. My dreams of late have been vivid, violent, and … well … not calm at all. Usually…

Look where you are. Are you where you want to be? Are you what you want to be? If not – are you packed? Can you pick up and go today? If not – get packing. Can you get to where you need to be…

So I’m on the road again – but to a familiar place (Atlanta). I am, however, doing an unfamiliar dance. I appear to have lost lock and allowed five (ten? fifteen?) years to pass. Perhaps it was more. This is not my beautiful house –…