-
You Are an Idiot and I Can’t Say It to Your Face: Working With Difficult People
Everything that runs through my head when dealing with wilful incompetence, and why none of it gets said.
-
Back to School: The First Day Back After a Holiday
Two weeks of sun, food and ocean, then the desk, the inbox, and a marriage conducted across time zones.
-
Second Is Good, But Not Good Enough: On Ambition That Never Rests
The day after New Year, when everyone is meant to be winning. On the drive that will not let you sit still.
-
Joyful or Simply Drunk? A New Year’s Eve Post-Mortem
Two parties, one resort off Highway 1, and the question of whether any of us were actually happy.
-
And It’s a Wrap: Surviving a Reorg at Work
A division-wide reorganisation, a tired team, and what a year of relentless change does to a leader.
-
The Art of Doing Nothing: In Defence of a Lazy Weekend
Why staying indoors, wandering room to room and achieving nothing is a perfectly respectable weekend.
-
Adjusted for Inflation: Fighting With Your Spouse About Money
One expensive holiday booking, one furious husband, and what money arguments in a marriage are really about.
-
You Carry the Burden: On Diversity Training and Hidden Bias
A workplace session on inclusion, and the comment from a colleague that showed how little we know ourselves.
-
Sirens and Then: The Sound of Living in San Francisco
Fire engines heard through noise-cancelling windows, and what that sound comes to mean when you live alone.
-
Uniquely Yours: An Anniversary Nine Time Zones Apart
Nine years of marriage, much of it long distance, and an anniversary that ends before it has properly begun.
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Glitter in my greys 