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Appropriate Promises
The older I get, the less I like the phrase under promise, over deliver. We say it all the time, especially in the professional world. And everyone nods and smiles, agreeing that it…
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Birds Don’t Even Like Bread
Birds don’t even like bread. Well, maybe they do. But bread isn’t something they are supposed to eat. From a nutrition standpoint, bread does nothing for birds looking to fuel up for their…
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Two-Inch Things We Never Consider
Author’s note: Only a few hours before writing this, I finished rereading Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull. It is one of my favorite books. I’d like to give him credit for connecting the…
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One Year Ago Today
One year ago today I was anxiously waiting to feel a cough rise in my chest. I had flown home a few days earlier from a week in Atlanta, and I became more…