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How I Defeated a Depressing Workplace With a Tricycle
Now It Can Be Told: Why I Performed For Two Minutes On a Tricycle While Wearing My Beanie Copter In Front of Hundreds of Co-Workers and the CEO at My Old Job Many Years Ago Nervous and Sweating I was nervous, sweating, close to passing out, but I had my mission and I said to…
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The Words I Wish I Had Said More
Personal Branding: An Annoying Exercise “What music do you like?” I asked a fellow cube-jockey. I asked this innocent question not so long ago, in the endless cubicles of The Corporation. Her response was strange. She bowed her head, shy about her answer. “Justin Beiber,” she mumbled. She even winced a little, expecting me to mock…
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Hollywood Heroics Hold Lousy Love Lessons
Well, That’s One Way to Show You Care Like a lot of American kids in the 70s I learned from the TV show The Brady Bunch. Wait. Edit. Being the free thinker I am, here’s a better way to describe it. As an American kid in the 70s, I watched The Brady Bunch and learned…
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The Words You Need When You Need to Quit
You’re at the edge of a difficult decision. Or you’re considering a bold move. Or you threaten to quit something you’ve been doing for a while. During those times, if you consult other people, both the well-meaning and the not-so will ask you, “What will you do instead?” What will you do when you quit…
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Adding a Shot of Adventure to Every Day
Before There Was Streaming There Were Re-runs Gather round, younglings! Let me tell you of a time long ago, before streaming movies and on-demand TV shows. Back then, television was broadcast over the air in a fashion called linear. You couldn’t change the sequence. The station would broadcast the shows when they wanted one show…
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Easter, American Freedom, and Trans Rights
Today is March 31, 2024. It’s an important day for Amercians and our deeply held beliefs that all should have the freedom to pursue happiness and to live as they want. Yes, I was riffing on the fact that today is the Christian/Pagan holiday of Easter as well as Trans Day of Visibility. Unfortunately, and…