relationships
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The relationship I share with my employer is fundamentally one of economics. They pay me to dedicate some of my personal energy for the benefit of their bottom line. If I am not successful enough to earn them the amount of money they have deemed my efforts to be worth, then I will no longer…
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I was one month shy of turning 33 when my mom died. Not too young to lose her, but she was the most significant loss I had experienced. As a child of elementary school age, I lost an uncle in the Vietnam War, but because he was in the military, I didn’t see him often.…
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There are so many milestones that marked my journey to become the someone I liked. Sounds like a sob story, to go through so many years of life not like ones self, and it may have been, until one day it wasn’t. We all have trials and tribulations that will get us to where we…
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I had a soulmate. She passed away nearly a year ago. But because our connection was through our souls, I still have her. And, in many ways like I was never allowed to have her before. I was truly despondent over her death. My heart was set adrift in a way I had never experienced.…
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My life, like all lives, has been a circuitous road to wherever it may be going. Sometimes there was a somewhat thought out plan about my next move, but mostly I learned how go with the flow. Although flow is a misidentifier. More like I learned how to absorb the bumps and change course. My…