Searching desperately through 99,000 emails for one that I know I saved, I discovered something a friend sent […]
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My husband and I have a mixed marriage when it comes to our attitudes about our books. I […]
I’ve never understood the point of that trust exercise where you fall backward and let folks catch you. In my mind its a given that the people in the circle will catch you because its a set up – who is going to risk looking like a schmuck in front of everyone standing around to participate in this exercise? Therefore, the real purpose of the exercise is to show whoever paid for the “team building” that you and your co-workers will play by the rules when someone is looking.
Once upon a time I had a physical address book. When someone moved I drew a line through […]
I have been thinking a lot lately about the lenses we use in daily life. The perspectives we put on and take off like glasses only needed for reading. As I think about this I get tangled in the idea that many people don’t actually switch their perspectives at all, they just add filters.
We saw a bad movie last night. Actually it wasn’t “bad” in so much as it was poorly […]
I am currently reading Isabel Allende’s Zorro. It has been on my nightstand for roughly a year in […]
I just read Fifty Shades of Grey, the “erotic” novel that is taking the world by storm. Which […]
While it is no longer actively in the news cycle, the incident with Mitt Romney attacking a supposedly […]
I have been on a months long quest to figure out how to better interact with a person who is driving me up the wall with passive-aggressive behavior while also developing “my personal career plan”. At first these seemed like separate tasks, but they converged pretty quickly.
As is my habit I dove into piles of books on psychological profiling, enhanced communication and other equally sexy topics. A am very predictable when faced with any problem or question – first, find a book.
I just finished a book where all the women friends tell each other in great detail about their sex lives. Usually while eating ice cream or bakery in their jammies. These descriptions include cute, short-hand words for various positions and intensity, as well as props for “gettin what you need”. I am woman hear me roar.
I am currently reading books on personality types in order to manage a prickly situation. As I am well aware that we can’t change anyone but ourselves. So of course these are self-help books.
While I have gained many new insights from “Type Talk at Work” and “Fundamentals of Organizational Communication”, the most interesting bits are from a book I stumbled on because it was nearby on the virtual shelf. The online public library system has very broad keyword sorting so next to the work related material was “Your Erotic Personality: Identifying and Understanding Your Sexual Self.” Who can resist?
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