take charge: 14/365

take charge: 14/365

I’m a take-charge kind of person, a problem-solver. Perhaps I was born this way and then my predilection was honed by being the oldest of five. Or perhaps at the age of eighteen months when my sister was born, I decided it would be me rather than her. And so on....
saving: 13/365

saving: 13/365

I tend to save things rather than use them. I think it started in high school with clothes. I would save a shirt for a date before I would wear it to school. Hand lotion. The shampoo-conditioner-soap sets from hotel rooms. I mean, if you used one of those things, the...
jobs redux: 11/365

jobs redux: 11/365

After reading, and thinking about and responding to, the comments from yesterday, I’d like to state for the record that even on the surface the jobs I’ve held show a lot more about me than I thought they did–and those things I will come back to–but...