I am SOOO excited about the time we are now living in!  I have to admit I LOVED the time of COVID! Not because of people getting sick and dying, but because I quit my 23 year career as an aircraft mechanic and started REALLY working on myself.  I broke down all the things I hated about my life and took a long look at the commonality, ME. Not blaming ANYONE else for what has happened in my life, no matter the reason. It’s about taking responsibility for my individual part of t

I have been thinking a lot lately about how to see similarities in people on all sides of the equation.  You may or may not know this about me but one of my side hustles (HAHAHA! I don’t make money on it “yet”) is studying people, their interactions, behavior, relationships, and idiosyncrasies. I have been doing it my whole life, originally what I called “people watching”. Then I started learning nuances about body language through sporadic bits of information coming in throu

I am so disappointed in people.  I am disappointed in the amount of people I know that are still shopping on Amazon and in particular Christmas gifts from Amazon even though they see what is happening all around us on a daily basis.  I have a friend who justifies Amazon because they provide a space for small businesses to get their products out to more potential customers.  This is true to be a good thing. However when an entity is causing a fuck ton of chaos to employees, cu

I am constantly fighting the extremely strong desire to hibernate/hide and isolate. At the same time I also have the desire to be LOUD, speak truth to ALL the things.  It's really difficult because when I hide I get criticized for playing small and then when I get loud I get criticized for being self righteous.  I have spent the last year really spending most of the time completely by myself. To see what I like, what I want, who I really am. This process has been difficult be

We Are All Connected and We All Need to Change Many of us see a ton of issues in today’s world. It’s not the same as when we grew up. Not for me, a Gen Xer, not for millennials, and not even for my son’s generation, a Gen Zer. .  We have been blinded by so many faucets of our society to think that the way things are now are the way things should always be and have always been.  It’s not true, we have not ALWAYS lived like we do today.  Most of human evolution was quite the op