Updates
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Stand-up may be the highlight of my workday. There’s something about it–quick status updates, celebrating achievements, sharing milestones, the rhythm of it, team bonding, flagging confusion or misunderstandings, in-jokes (ending of course with “let’s be careful out there”), the ritual… We briefly tried chat standup, but it was annoying and boring, so we went back…
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So, I apparently am a sucker for modular floorcovering. I didn’t know this until I received the FLOR catalog in the mail. Flor offers lots of color, pattern, and texture options. I like the quilt-esque ones, but they were vetoed by the house’s other occupant. The compromise choice was a mixture of two color variants…
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We are what we eat, and the choices we make about food matter in terms of our personal health, the health of the soil, and energy consumption. So, to act on our good environmental intentions, and to connect ourselves more deeply with our local community, we joined with another couple to purchase a Community Supported…
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While I’m still playing with the idea of ridding myself of my automobile, more angst is coming from wrestling with whether I need to leave my job, or how I can change it so that I can stay. It’s funny. I have been reading Go Put Your Strengths to Work, and after the exercises in…
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Today, I chatted with one of the gentle, nice ladies who watch the kids at the Y while parents exercise. Many wear headscarves & sometimes they talk to each other in a language I do not know. When I see them at the store, they ask about my kids, and only have eyes for them…
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I probably don’t seem like a rabid sports fan, as I can’t quote many statistics and I rarely attend live games. But, over the last few years, I’ve watched the ESPN sports show Pardon the Interruption (PTI) almost daily. I’m hooked on the good natured, playful banter between the two hosts – Michael Wilbon and…