I used to be really into photography. Like with film, and darkrooms, and chemicals and all that fun stuff. There are some basic concepts that you learn early on: contrast, composition, subject matter. And then there’s depth of field. More specifically, how the light changes how you perceive things. Cameras…

Remember that time in early elementary school when you learned how chickens hatch? You may have had an incubator in your classroom where you patiently watched the eggs, hoping for some sign of life. …

Sometimes I forget how formative it was for me to study photography in college. I would spend hours, almost daily, in the darkroom trading chemical smells for deeply grainy documentation of what was happening in my life. This was long before Instagram, smartphones, and even Flickr. In my last year…

What if you are the Oracle? There’s a scene in The Matrix (a beloved #90s classic) where Neo, the protagonist, goes to see the Oracle. ​When Neo first enters the waiting room, he encounters a young boy sitting on the floor with a row of spoons before him. The boy…

Whenever I see an article about burnout, I scroll right past it. I don’t want to read it. I definitely didn’t read that article about languishing that was making the rounds last year. Don’t even get me started on productivity! Also, I don’t nap. Or, if I do, it is…

I was on vacation last week and, not gonna lie, at times it felt a little bit like this: This is the true story of eleven family members picked to live in a house vacation together and have their lives instagrammed… ​Find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real……

Many years ago, I was at a company retreat held not too far from my house, a few weeks after returning from maternity leave. Normally I worked from home, so this was the first all-day outing on my own. At the time I was excited about getting out of the…

I got another one of those goodbye and thank you emails from a coworker on Friday (fortunately not on my team). Later in the day, I needed to cc a few people on an email and discovered another person was no longer in the system. Most times when I open…

I love lists. And taking notes. I keep two journals on my desk, one for lists, and one for taking notes. I’ve also got multi-colored post-it notes and several mugs of pens and markers. To be more specific, these are Leuchtturm1917 journals, a cabinet pack of post-its (24 to a…