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The inspiration for this post comes from Dear Sugar podcast episode “How do I find the courage to be my own guide?” and, perhaps more indirectly, from Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. This topic is relevant to so many areas of… Continue reading How do you learn to trust yourself?
In this post, you’re probably going to figure out who I voted for at the top of the ticket. OK, I'll tell you: Hillary Clinton. For those of you who take issue with that choice, spoiler alert: don’t care. It's tempting to make an continuous effort to stay informed, to read commentary from multiple perspectives… Continue reading Step away from the news. Consider a regular news detox.
I consider myself very, very lucky to work from home: I’m a permanent teleworker, part of a growing population of the workforce. Up to 37 percent of workers in the U.S. have worked from home at some point in a given month. Considering teleworking? Curious? Here’s a few components of telework life - actual work-related… Continue reading A day in the life of a permanently remote worker
Goal setting. Personal growth. Professional development. I don’t know about you, but all of my social media feeds are full of how-to’s on how to better yourself for the new year. Before hitting 2017 hard, why not take stock of all the great things that happened in your life - personally and professionally - in… Continue reading 2016 in review
Do you have a milestone anniversary of your own high school graduation coming up next year? Have you periodically Googled “should i go to my high school reunion” several times since it occurred to you that you have, in fact, been out of high school for a curious amount of time? If you’re approaching the 10-year mark… Continue reading Don’t go to your 10-year high school reunion
I’m a textbook introvert. I’m outgoing when necessary (normally when required by work-related situations) but there is nothing wrong to me with passing up a social thing that only promises middling amounts of fun for a night in with Netflix. Or bailing on a purely social commitment because I don’t have the emotional energy. Or… Continue reading The introvert’s guide to making new friends
Digging around in old files, I came across an assignment from an undergraduate nonfiction writing class. A lot of the stuff I produced in creative writing classes from age 20-through-24 (basically, all the creative writing classes I ever took) was, uh, not that great, but that's OK - lots of first drafts. This assignment stuck… Continue reading All the things I’ve wanted to be
Once upon a time I wanted to be a writer. A writer, in my early-20-something brain, was someone who had a masters of fine arts in creative writing and taught creative writing classes and had a certain lifestyle and I guess wrote some stuff that was all published. To prep myself for the writing part… Continue reading Want to be an artist? Then do it.
I've had a really nutty year. In a nutshell, my significant other wrapped up a slightly nontraditional graduate school experience. As part of this wrapping-up process, we had planned to do three months of long distance, but that soon turned into six, then 10. Several financial decisions were influenced by this fluid relationship location, such… Continue reading Financial realities when your life is bonkers
Hi, readers! All four of you! I’m kidding. It’s probably more like seven. Maybe. As the half-dozen-at-best of you may have noticed, I haven’t posted or tweeted since early July. That’s because I moved. And we’re not talking across town. I packed a vast majority of my stuff, then located in the Maryland suburbs of… Continue reading Back into the swing of things
Gail Marie Cole 