Humanity
- Check Yo’ Self Before Ya Wreck Yo’ Project
- 05/02/2012
- Since going freelance full-time (almost two full years ago, oh my!), my professional life has been a series of learning experiences. Of course, I'm picking up new techniques and attempting to master new technologies. But the most important lessons, I've discovered, have more to do with who I am (and how I handle myself) as a person and a professional. When I worked as part of a team for my former employers, the success (or failure) of a project was…
- On Colleagues & Idols
- 04/03/2012
- I recently came across the following quote from sociologist and Harvard professor Charles Willie: “By idolizing those whom we honor we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. … We fail to recognize the fact that we could go and do likewise.” This quote was the inspiration for my March contribution to The Pastry Box Project, which is now available for your reading pleasure!
- Know Thyself
- 10/26/2010
- “I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” — Augusten Burroughs, American writer
- Fear > Growth > Change
- 05/18/2010
- “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn to do it.” — Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor
- Connection
- 02/10/2010
- “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” — Miles Franklin, Australian writer and feminist
- Two Thumbs Up for Therapy!
- 12/02/2009
- “Neurosis is simply this boring imprisonment of the self in itself, crippled by its terror of the new and unexpected, carrying its sameness with it wherever it goes, so that it has the protection of feeling, whatever it might stretch out its hand to touch, that it never meets anything but what it knows already.” — Frederic Jameson, American literary critic and political theorist
