Dear Apartment Therapy…

Design Blogs. I can’t think of a situation in which I wouldn’t enjoy browsing through a design blog. Even the bad ones are a good opportunity to raise an eyebrow or two and judge the person who chose THAT paint color. My favorite (good) one is Apartment Therapy. It’s updated often, provides a wide variety […]

I noticed it just today. The light is changing outside. How can that be? How are we already getting hints of autumn before I feel I’ve had a chance to fully enjoy summer. It was just yesterday that I kicked off my shoes for the first time this season and stuck my toes in the […]

Joy best expressed in person

Pardon me while I take a few minutes of your time to share with you the obligatory post-conference glow post. Before settling in to write this, I read through past post-conference posts. I 97% certain that they make up a collection of my favorite words. Some were reflections of life changing moments spent roaming the […]

IAVM storms Portland

If you’ve followed my blog for some time, then you know IAVM (International Association of Venue Managers) is an organization very near and dear to my heart. I joined for the first time just 4 years ago. It’s strange to type that. Not because that 4 years has flown by, but because it’s hard to […]

Not in the job requirements

Since when did mind reading become a required skill of people management? I mean, predicting what might come out of one of my team member’s mouth at completely the wrong time and the wrong place is something I excel at and I have amazing skill at shutting that down before it even happens. But I’m […]

It’s a bonafide miracle, y’all

Mark this day down. Today, July 21, 2014, I ran my first 5k. I started my plod and 40 minutes and 3.19 miles later, I stopped my plod. So, further than a 5k but not less. Not one single, step less. So, it’s done. I have my first official race on August 3 and after […]

I’ve been spending a great deal of time and effort on simplifying my surroundings. I’m fairly certain I’ve blogged about this recently… or at least in the last two years (and with how busy my life has been in the last two years, 23 months ago might seem like recently to me). Part of this […]

A-O River

I donned my tourist hat today and set out to conquer this fair town. Well, I did this soon after galloping oh so gracefully around the golf course, running to the post office and returning stupid impulse buys from last weekend. I saw stupid because they were useless. USELESS USELESS things that I deep down […]

And One Thought More

Guys. I struggled through that last post. All day long I thought about sitting down tonight to write a blog post. I’m not exaggerating. I thought about it all. Day. Long. I was going to be so funny about my running attempts. I was going to talk about how I’m 97% certain that I look […]

Just One Step More

Guess what?!? I’m still running. No really… I am! I did close to 18 minutes without stopping a few days ago and tonight barely made it to 15 but at least I was out there. Guys, let me tell you that I am THIS excited about this accomplishment. When I started out, just a minute […]