Archive for August, 2008

This blog post is not intended to offend anyone. If your political views differ from mine, please know that I honor your informed choice and love that we live in a country that gives a voice to differing opinions, ideologies, and religious views (though sadly, this seems questionable at times, especially in the last decade). [...]

A few years ago, I went on a tour in Costa Rica in search of a Resplendent Quetzal. These are strikingly colored birds only found in the cloud forests of Central America. They do not survive in captivity and are hard to spot in the dense tree canopies.
After an hour of looking up and only [...]

I am in the process of moving my home. Again. I do this every three to five years.
My girlfriend asked me when I was going to stop moving, as if I were filling in for some inadequacy.
I don’t know why I like to move, but I do seem to have to shake up my life [...]

In my doctoral research, I found that many high achieving women have a hard time allowing others to be who they are. They judge people based on their own high standards and tend to critically view work that is done differently than they would have done it. In other words, “There is only one right [...]