I decided to give up social media for Lent again this year. It was (once again) a hell of a time to do it. I suppose it will always be a hell of a time … Read more
On Sundays, I try to block out some time to just get ready for the week ahead, do some planning, take a look back, track goal progress. I call it Selfish Sundays, because I spend … Read more
[ update: I made up my mind at the last possible moment. Decision at end of the post. ] I’ve been trying to decide something. Not anything important, mind you. Something silly and trivial, but … Read more
Yeah, yeah. I know I said I don’t do NY resolutions (esp not on 1 January). But I’m so inspired by Cate’s 2018 Liberation list! So here’s mine: Stop allowing myself to be dragged into conversations … Read more
I am bad at personal retrospectives. While I’d like to say it’s because I generally don’t do them until my birthday (vs. at end-of-year like most people), that’s not the entire story. It doesn’t matter … Read more
I knew a few weeks ago this was coming, sort of. I gave a talk at DevOpsDays where I said, “And a year ago I was about half-way through my very brief tenure at the … Read more
My mother-in-law used to tell stories about when she was a child, growing up “dirt poor on a tomato farm” in Arkansas. One of my favorites is about how they were visited by their “city … Read more
Three weeks ago(ish), I turned 43. I made some resolutions. Let’s review them, shall we? First, I said I’d stop hitting the snooze button. This one has been going not-so-great. Okay – total honesty time: … Read more
