Those Gawky Awkward Years

Those Gawky Awkward Years

  (cue “Pomp and Circumstance”) Sometime in the next 48 hours I might just don my mortarboard and a feather boa and have myself some commencement exercises.  That is how I feel about leaving 2013 and heading into 2014.  It has definitely been an awkward year, and I...
Does This Make Me Look Fat?

Does This Make Me Look Fat?

A few days ago, I got rebuked by a well-intentioned friend.  He was probably right, for that matter, so maybe I shouldn’t even qualify his intentions.  Whatever.  This is what happened:  I was holding a dear baby friend (literally, a friend who is a baby, as in one...
Love What You Do

Love What You Do

But yield who will to their separation,  My object in living is to unite  My avocation and my vocation  As my two eyes make one in sight.  Only where love and need are one,  And the work is play for mortal stakes,  Is the deed ever really done  For Heaven and the...
Seasonal Friendships

Seasonal Friendships

One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever learned, a lesson that was amplified in the events of the last 16 months, is that some friendships are not what they appear to be. I think it happens a lot in the workplace, and I suspect that it’s simply because at work you have...