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Category: Friday’s Truths

  • Friday’s Truths: Hard lessons

    This has been a week.  No.  Really.  It has been a WEEK. I move into the weekend tired and beat down.  Yet, I’m motivated and a little renewed as well.  For as hard as this week was, some lessons came from it. Sometimes you just have to let the shit hit the fan…even if it…

  • Friday’s Truths: Confessions of an Illusionist

    Tomorrow will mark 8 weeks since my mother passed away.  That’s 56 days of living without my mother being physically present. Every. Single. Day. I wonder how I’ve made it through another day without her here. But I found a bit of truth tonight.  It sort of hit me upside the head.  Actually, I think…

  • Friday’s Truths: Black Friday Blues (Or, Cancer Sucks Big Smelly Donkey Balls – A Lot)

    I needed to do some grocery shopping recently.  I’ve come to the realization that I have a better experience if I go later in the day.  So, I tend to go at night…and not before a holiday if I can help it.  So I’m at the store and I’m picking up some soda and some…

  • Friday’s Truths: Tick Tock Tick Tock – stop moving the hands on Life’s big clock

    I haven’t written a “Friday’s Truths” post in a while, so I thought I would take the opportunity this week.  Somehow, it seems deserving.  I don’t know why, it just does. Do you ever notice that we’ll spend a good part of our week just wishing and hoping that Friday would get here sooner?  As…

  • Friday’s Truths: Plotting and Preparing and Planning….Well Poop!

    For a couple of months now, my team at work has been furiously screening and interviewing candidates.  My client had a big hiring initiative – needing to fill approximately 150 positions for a new contract they were anticipating. Of course, there was a catch. The new business was anticipated – it wasn’t locked in.  They hadn’t gotten…

  • Friday’s Truths: Do these pants make my age look big?

    Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. – – – – Jean Rhys I knew it would happen someday.  Somewhere along the line, I got old. Okay, yes, I know.  I’m not really that old.   I’m 44 – in the grand scheme of things, that’s still considered young.  What is it…

  • Friday’s Truths – Don’t be offensive, or you’ll be offended.

    Another work week has come and gone…we lumber on to the weekend.  Well, you may skip, leap, or frolic on to the weekend.  I shall continue to lumber.  What did I learn as I’ve moved through another Friday? If your boss is losing sleep over budgets, costs, and P&L…trust me, you will soon, too.  It’s…

  • Friday’s Truths – Who does the watching?

    We are now moving very steadily into the heart of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The signs are evident: The leaves are returning to the trees. The birds and the squirrels are coming out of hiding and demanding their treats. The flowers are poking up. The front lawn gets mowed every weekend – and TruGreen…

  • Friday’s Truths – Sometimes, they just need to be acknowledged

    We’ve come to the end of another work week.  Yay for the weekend! I look back at my day and ask, “What did I learn today?  What are the truths that came out of everything?”  Well, here is my list for Friday, March 16, 2012. If the numbers look out of whack – and people…