This morning, I saw the slender black cat that slinks around our place driving our near thirteen-year-old black Lab crazy. Pip will rouse from her old dog sleep on the back deck or in the sun by the slider, barking ferociously in what is a very unique bark reserved for this cat alone. “Slinky pissin’ […]
“Can you believe how stupid?” “I know. You’d think they’d see the obvious . . .” I was in a small group of twenty-something consultants complaining about our client. I’m embarrassed to say I was in my fifties, but I was joining in. Suddenly a founding partner of the firm, seventeen years my junior, joined […]
I’ve been thinking about Shakespeare’s play Hamlet recently. Though I trained as an actor, I never played Hamlet. Hamlet is a young prince of Denmark, grieving the loss of his father, and feeling vaguely uneasy about the fact that his mother married his uncle Claudius so soon after his father’s death. “Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The […]
Writer “Would you like to write this with AI?” I am asked this question, by LinkedIn, WordPress, and several other writing tools and sites where I publish my writing. As I skip the AI button inside my head is an existential scream: NO! I’M TRYING TO BE A WRITER DAMMIT! I call myself a writer […]
“Business is NOT a democracy!” The CEO had raised his voice. I wouldn’t have said he was actually yelling, but his face was a darker shade tending toward red, and he was definitely speaking louder than he had been moments before. My colleague, a consulting partner, was explaining that there was considerable disagreement with his […]
He was introduced to us as “Charley, an old-time key logger,” an introduction that seem to both amuse and annoy him. “Thanks, I guess, Carol, Did you really have to put in the “old-time” bit? These folks can see I’m old just by looking at me.” “Oh, sorry Charley,” Carol from HR laughed, blushing a […]
Some life lessons we are meant to learn. . . over. . . and over again. Not long ago I wrote about patience. I quoted a one-time client, who didn’t take well to my advice to “Be Patient.” “Patient?! Alan, the world was not built by patient men!” I went on to note that high […]
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This post will send in the wee hours o’ New Year’s Eve 2024. Here, in the good ole US of A, New Year’s Eve is amateur alcoholics night, when teetotalers, and even those with a serious drinking problem, know to leave the roads to those idiots who binge drink once a year, loud-singing the Robert […]
It is the Winter Solstice. In the cold we huddle around the fire, joined in our communities. At the dark time of year, when the days are short, we celebrate the light. During this time I often imagine ancient peoples in their shelters, with a roof smoke hole above the fire, bringing evergreen boughs inside, […]
