( Grab a snack. It's a long one! )

One of the biggest insights I experienced yesterday was a perspective on the personal alchemy of challenge and ability I bring with me to this experience.  Each has his or her own, of course, and that's part of what creates a dynamic atmosphere, to be sure.  It feels nice, though, to have a sense of myself in this context because, coming into it, I ( Read more... )

Oscillococcinum is a wondrous thing. Yes, I still have the flu because it is a virus that has its own lifespan; however, while I would not choose to feel this way every day of my life, it's livable. Not workable, mind you, because I'm way too dizzy to drive and my thinking is condensed to short-term linear, but livable. None of the fitful, restive ( Read more... )

I wish I could tell you: ( wanna know? )

The Provost called today and made the official offer. A nice twist is that they are going to pay Doc a few thousand more than they said they would. I asked my friend, P, who is a professor at Kenyon, why they would do that. She said, "Because Doc has tenure at a university with an excellent reputation in her field, which means she doesn't need a ( Read more... )

( Proud Women )

I have hit a wall, I think, in dealing with the local GroupThink.

( Read on, MacDuff! )

I can't recall whether or not I've written about a particular client of mine before, and I haven't time to look just now. I want to get this down and ... erm up? before the moment passes. So here goes, with heartfelt mea culpas and assorted apologies should tedious repetition be involved ( Read more... )

Nice things in progress here ( Read more... )

"Pleasant" is a word that used to throw me into fits. I thought it represented the very essence of mediocrity, with the possible exception of its use by Bob Marley when he said, ( read all about it! )