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) to the outside of the knee, and informed me that 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 career and come up with some (by no means, all) 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, through thick and thin, running has been there for me. 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, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 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 work. Frustration building, I checked out earlier trains and booked 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 year-end holidays, people tend to drink a lot of alcohol. Read more
As an INTJ, one of my unavoidable traits is having a plan b, and for that matter, a plan c, d, e, f and g. There’s nothing I can do about it, whenever I’m planning something, my mind immediately forms back-up plans, just in case things don’t go according to Read more
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau Winter hiking Read more
I discovered that Millennials have a truly interesting way of determining most favored child status (similar to MFN, but with children). As my kids were growing up, I enjoyed their truly different personalities and time spent with both of them. They are very different people, and I did my best Read more
As I made my plans for 2022, I decided that I would need to increase the number of National Parks I go to each year if I were going to complete the full 63 parks in the system before I die. I’m sure I have many years of hiking ahead Read more