I’ve always been a runner. In high school, I found (somewhat ironically) that track was the only sport I could take part in that wouldn’t trigger asthma attacks. I ran the 400m dash outdoors, and the 600m indoors, and would regularly run 5+ miles during my practice runs. Of course, after I got out of [...]
Renting an apartment seems to be a pretty straightforward service business: space for money. Of course, anyone that’s ever rented to or from someone knows it’s not as simple as that. Whether it’s a maintenance issue, or a noisy party, or an impending home improvement project, there’s a need for additional communication between landlord and [...]
Have you ever experienced the dramatic effect of the right song playing at just the right point? Something like that happened to me yesterday afternoon. I had a conversation with a friend I know through social media about an available position at their company. One of the first things (s)he said was, “I had no [...]
The overly-long title for this post comes from two posts that I read recently. They both relate to the degrees to which we edit ourselves in the social media world, and they got me thinking about how I do or don’t edit myself. Justin Kownacki wrote about how, afraid to offend anyone, we censor ourselves, [...]
