Plus 3 Strategies to Jump-Start Your Own Peaceful Editing Journey.
The following entries capture my latest word war, from the first burst of blissful writing through the harrowing revision operation to the moment when I wave my final draft, victorious. I debrief with three exit strategies for easier editing.
Writing brings peace: Today, after a week of relentless internal yammer,…
On losing patience as a patient.
I want my health data, now! A dashboard! A pie chart and a bar graph! Averages and medians! I want what we data managers provide: lineage, scope, and projection models stored on a secure cloud-based platform. But today, I only have puzzle pieces.
My primary care provider has medical history that spans a mere seven years because I switched from one practice to another. I wanted my records transferred but…
Use your #1 best built-in behavior again, again, and again!
2020–2021, CERTAINLY UNCERTAIN.
2020 is associated with “hindsight” and “vision,” but now these iterative digits pair best with “uncertainty.” Last year spewed chaos: Many jobs moved from office to home while other occupations went extinct; Various businesses withered while others grew; Some relationships disintegrated, and others blossomed. As we treaded these waters of sea-change…
15 parts, 37 screws, 6 beta tests yields 1 desk.
“I assembled a desk” I said, never! Then came the global lockdown. Before 2020, I didn’t build anything because I understood information only through the written word. Diagrams, puzzles, and pictures were a foreign language.
I shrugged off skill-building. n fact, back in the day, I blew the section of the college admissions test that measured spatial ability…
