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Life Stages
This month, I moved into a single-family home in my new city of Erie, Pennsylvania. That may not sound like much, but it’s a change of course in what I’ve been doing for the past seven years. When I returned...
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Acting on Principle
I read an interesting article about Target Corporation and their recent revenue hit due to people boycotting them over their roll-back of DEI initiatives, including ceasing their support for black owned businesses. In their infinite wisdom, the leadership of the...
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Sparks of Insights – March 2021
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,...
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Month 12 – an anniversary of sorts
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
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Month 11 – God, Grant me the serenity…
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
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Month 10 – a very COVID Christmas
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
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Reflections on Loss and Grief
What 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 Read more
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Becoming a fan of Eurovision
From Wikipedia: “The Eurovision Song Contest, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed live and transmitted to national broadcasters via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes Read more
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The journey continues
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
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My TKR Journey
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
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This was not on the PHR exam
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
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What I did for Love. . .
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
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Lenten Reflection – Psalm 23
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
