Category: Essays
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Locking down my digital life
Headlines are plentiful about the digital surveillance of our government on immigrants, activists and constitutional observers as part of Operation Metro Surge. We are being watched and the to-do of locking things down can no longer just sit on my to-do list. I’m also someone who is currently unemployed — so I do have more…
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January memo from Minnesota
I have started so many posts in the past 3 weeks that I have abandoned. With the news changing so dramatically day-to-day, and sometimes hour-to-hour, I’ll take a pause mid-post and then, based on the news, my complete mind space has shifted. Like most residents of Minnesota, I’m constantly shifting from fear to anger to…
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Deconstructing the enemy graveyard, a corporate recovery
I’m at the end of my 6-month sabbatical, time that I’ve intentionally given myself off from the corporate merry-go-round after 30 years of ups and downs. And while I am using this time to reset my creativity, be present and play, most of the time in actuality has been spent in what I’m calling “corporate…
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An absence of choice — Notes to my dead mom
Hey Mom. It’s Thanksgiving. I know this holiday was one of your favorites, maybe not quite Christmas Eve level, but up there given your love of cooking. There is also the fact that in your marriage years to dad, it was one of the holidays that required the in-laws to do the 7-hour drive to […]…
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