Archive for the ‘Birthday Posts’ Category
Selling a Mid-Life Crisis
I have a rant building up that has nothing to do with any of my regular subjects. Perhaps I have a new category, the “birthday post”, with my previous editions being: Life Lessons from Vacation (2014), Icarus (2013), and Twelve Things I Wish I’d Known Twenty Years Ago (2012) — none of these have been […]
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Life Lessons from Vacation
This summer I took my first ‘real’ vacation in years. I’ve used my “Annual Leave” (as we call in the semi-autonomous government agency that I work at) mostly for long weekend ‘staycations’ and for partial days to go to interviews or to volunteer during technical rehearsal week for my daughter’s ballet ensemble. (I find that […]
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Icarus
This was my first attempt at poetry in about 15 years, and I hope I didn’t do too terribly. My goal was to express the emotions felt by an adult with a life of broken dreams (in this case, specifically me, but I suspect it’s a common experience) as they try to encourage their children […]
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I recently turned 40 — one of those “milestone” (or should that be “millstone”?) birthdays. Partly because of my recent birthday, but also because I recently started a new position, I have been reflecting on where my career is now, compared to where I thought it would be when I was younger. When I was […]
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withamouthfullofstones 