I recently came across a proverb that felt less like gentle wisdom and more like a personal boundary with excellent branding: “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” Excuse me while I embroider this onto everything I own. My whiteboard.My […]
What’s a mystery from your own life that you’ve never solved? I’ve been “resilient” for as long as I can remember. Not in the cute, inspirational poster way, with a lotus flower rising from mud. But in the quiet, clinical way adults say it when they’ve decided you […]
Somewhere between the velvet ropes of glory and the folding chairs of “we regret to inform you,” lives a curious little purgatory called almost. Enter Diego Pavia. Once whispered in the same breath as the Heisman Trophy, now conspicuously absent from the draft board like the last guest […]
There’s a particular kind of advice that floats around like a motivational screensaver. That advice is to never regret being a good person. It sounds lovely. Clean. Almost saint-adjacent. And then you meet people. Not all people. But enough of them. The ones who take your kindness, hold […]
There is a purpose for everyone you meet. I know. It sounds like something you’d find cross-stitched on a pillow next to a suspiciously calm fern. Stay with me. Because some people do not enter your life gently. They arrive like a pop quiz you didn’t study for, […]
“It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.” Ah, Ernest. Sir. You really woke up and chose violence with that one. Because here I am, not yet sixty (thank you very much), and already deeply aware that the second half of […]
Somewhere in the friendly skies, two pilots decided that what air traffic control really needed amid the symphony of call signs, altitudes, and headings was a little feline flair. “Meow, meow.” Yes. Not turbulence. Not interference. Not a glitch in the matrix. Just grown adults, entrusted with a […]
I recently stumbled across a statistic on LinkedIn, which, as we all know, is where facts go to speak in motivational quotes, claiming that 1 out of 2 people faces a barrier to hygiene in public restrooms. Now, I did not fact-check this. Just letting you know. But […]
There are two types of people in this world 1. People who think their pets sleep all night.2. People who have met their pets. I, unfortunately, am now the third type. Yhe one who strongly suspects a coordinated, multi-species underground operation is unfolding the moment I turn off […]
What makes you laugh? I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes me laugh lately. And, not the polite, socially acceptable chuckle you deploy in meetings when someone says “let’s circle back,” but the real laugh. The slightly unhinged, slightly inappropriate, possibly-should-be-checked-by-a-professional kind of laugh. The kind that […]
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