#OTR50 Day 46: Work Poetry

April 25, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oh expense reports!
My Achilles Heel at work
My administrative nightmare
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#OTR50 Day 45: I’m Excited to be Speaking at Surge Co-Creation 2019!

April 24, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

It’s a week away and I’m at that point of being both excited and nervous. It does not matter that I’m regularly in front of large audiences, video, radio, etc. Bottom line, I do still get the jitters before major events and presentations. Imposter syndrome sets in quickly and I begin to doubt myself. The […]

#OTR50 Day 44: To Do

April 23, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

All we can do is move forward. Checking off one item at a time.Take mental breaks.Go back to the list. The work list.The home list.The parenting list.The personal list.One step at a time.One foot in front of the other. Get it done.Get it done.Get IT done! 321 Days to go.#OTR50

#OTR50 Day 43: Betting on Spring

April 22, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Every year in the late summer or early fall, I plant several new flowers or plants. Last year, it was bushes: two hydrangea, two roses, two lilacs, and one hybrid something I can’t remember. Winter then covered the yard in a snowy blanket, freezing rain, and bitter cold. […]

#OTR50 Day 42: Forty-Two!

April 21, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

42 The meaning of life, the universe, and everything.Jackie Robinson.An asterisk in ASCII.Molybdenum. There are wiki pages for every integer up to 999. I knew the four items above before looking up 42. OK. Ok, I’ll admit it. I couldn’t remember what element was 42, but I did know one existed. One of the many […]

#OTR50 Day 41: Comedy

April 20, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

It’s Saturday evening and I’m enjoying lounging with my family and my puppy pressed against me. My meals and snacks today have consisted primarily of comfort food leftovers: Matzoh Ball soup Roast Turkey Charoset Chocolate Macaroons I have eaten more than my fair share of all the above in the past 24 hours. And, now […]

#OTR50 Day 40: Pesach

April 19, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve 20 minutes left in the day and the laptop is dead. It’s been non-stop all day so I shouldn’t really be surprised by this. I ran a Webex this morning for work. (Yes, I know it’s a “vacation” week but c’est la vie.) Anyhow, since all three of the teens were home for the […]

#OTR50 Day 39: The King in the Forest

April 18, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

When the kids were little and asked for us to make up a bedtime story, the story would often start with the exact same intro. This was a hand-me-down story with a funny family history behind it. This one sentence could lead a million directions. “Once upon a time there was a King in the […]

#OTR50 Day 38: Patience

April 17, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Another day spent that was supposed to be a vacation day with very little in the way of vacating going on. Household chores, phone calls to driving schools, legal paperwork activity, etc. I did sneak in lunch with my eldest kid and spouse as well an acupuncture appointment and a small evening thing. However, almost […]

#OTR50 Day 37: Clutter

April 16, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Today was a big day for adulting. I spent the morning shuttling the kid that is on spring break around to appointments and then the afternoon cleaning and waiting on a furniture delivery. It is not so much “real” cleaning that absorbed the time. There was some of the traditional, sweep, swiffer, mop and vacuum […]