Here’s a journal entry I created in March 2021. Good to look back sometimes. This weekend, I traveled to West Sacramento to spend time with a friend. The plan was loosely based on drinking – beer, wine, Gin & Tonics,...
Read moreWhat a year this has been so far. While I thought 2018 was difficult – a year of many endings and chapters closing; 2024 has been a ‘hold my beer’ kind of year. Recovering from TKR and dealing with being...
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Here we are, a point no one ever expected one year ago when all of this started. So much has happened over the past year, while so much hasn’t happened as I spent twelve months effectively home full-time. A twelve-month Read more…
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting Read more…
Watching Hallmark Christmas movies this year on my fancy new smart TV got me thinking. There was a time when I thought that I wanted the big house with the white picket fence and the fancy décor (which is expanded Read more…
What have I been up to since March, as I prepared to leave Quotient Sciences and look for my next opportunity? I have taken advantage of this transition to take care of some things and set myself up for the Read more…
Last I wrote about my knee, it was to report my retirement from running. The knee specialist had prescribed an ‘unloader’ brace that would shift my weight from the inside of the knee (where the bone-on-bone arthritis was the worst) Read more…
There was recently a post on LinkedIn asking about things that had happened in the careers of HR professionals that the Human Resources certification didn’t cover. It got me thinking and I started to think back over my nearly 30-year Read more…
The one constant in my life since I was 16 years old is my running – the longer the distance, the better. Though, I am not by any means an ultra-runner or marathoner, my preferred race distance being 10 miles, Read more…
23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Yea, Read more…
For my birthday weekend this year, I decided to hop the Accela and take the ‘just over an hour’ train ride up to New York City for the weekend. Leading up to my departure, things were not going well at Read more…
This year, I decided to do Dry January. This started in the UK by Alcohol Change UK and was designed to encourage people to sign-up to abstain from alcohol for the month of January. The idea was that over the Read more…
