Like most people, I’ve watched the process of impeaching Donald Trump with some level of interest. However, compared to other things that have happened during the 3 years of his presidency, I haven’t paid day-to-day attention to every nuance and development. A few days ago, as things began to crescendo towards conclusion, I actually spent some time thinking about the…
Tag: Emotions
Looking back, looking forward.
It’s been a year. An eventful one. The last thing I remember prior to 7 A.M. on May 17, 2018 was the anesthesiologist showing me an ultrasound image of the nerve bundle in my leg she was about to block. She told me it would last 24 hours. And then… The next thing I remember was waking up thrashing, ripping…
Hate
The world is filled with hate. I struggle with it. I fight it in myself all the time. But I have to finally admit it. I too am filled with hatred. It’s bursting from within me, it fills every fiber of my being. I struggle to contain the hatred, on a near-daily basis. I am literally triggered by it. It…
Two Long Weeks
As I noted in an early post of this blog, I've been struggling physically for a few years, and have tried a bunch of therapies to try and avoid a knee replacement. Ultimately, nothing worked, and I had my knee replaced on May 17. Today marks 16 days since surgery. It feels like forever, but as my PT reminded me…
My Unlikely Career. A Retrospective, in 4 decades. Part 3.
Part 3. “…And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?...” – Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads, 1981 Interestingly, this classic debuted in 1981. As did I, at least from a professional perspective. That was a long time ago, and I never really examined the idea of “how did I get here” until I started…
My Unlikely Career. A Retrospective, in 4 decades. Part 2.
Part 2. “Marketing? What the hell is marketing? Software? What the hell is software?” Catchy title? Not really. Actually, these were quite literally the thoughts that went through my mind when I got my first real job, in 1981. And I really never expected that this new job of such extreme unknowns would end up as the beginning of…