Category: all in a day’s work
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If Someone Peeked at Your Calendar, Would It Show What You Value?
The sweet spot for me is when I can create a plan that becomes a routine that becomes a habit — based on what I value.
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My Marketing Job Has a Holy Goal: Reach 1 in 100
Who knew mimicking Jesus would be part of a career in tech transfer? “Thy words were found and I ate them — yum, yum, yummy!” The lyrics from my college days that I sang alongside friends during Campus Crusade for Christ meetings are in my head as I write this post. We sang about finding […]
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6 Best Things About My Return to Work
COVID-19 makes the workplace seem more precious There’s no place like home — unless you’re forced to do your day job there because of a global pandemic. Then, there’s no place like work. Happily, I am doing work where I do it best. At work. Though I had been a bit apprehensive about going back to […]
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How Do I Report Sexual Harassment During COVID-19?
It’s just one of the many perils of working from home My husband is retired. COVID-19 has forced me to work from home. Translation: I am at home with him all day every day. Trying to work from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. He walks into my office (the dining room) without invitation. He passes by me […]
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Business at the top; workout on the bottom
It was Monday morning, mere hours before my debut as a panel moderator at AUTM 2017, the annual meeting of thousands of tech transfer professionals from all over the world. And what held my concern? Attire. (Possibly because the evening before, prior to attending the first-timers orientation and reception, I had asked my female colleagues […]
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When your hotel room comes with a little surprise
My hotel room for the conference came with a little surprise. Nothing much, really, just a man. A stranger. A face I could easily forget because when I opened the door to Room 3333 and saw the room was occupied, I closed it so quickly I never really looked at who I was rejecting. “Just […]
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Begin with vacation in mind…
Begin with the end in mind doesn’t mean focus on the end so much as to focus on making the most of the time before the end.
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Sweet on Paris…
Knowing a friend is vacationing in Europe during this time of uncertainty makes this latest terror event too close to home.
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It’s time to “man up”…
It isn’t often that I pour myself into a project only to see it fail. But failure can build character that success fails to do…
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SEO and so what?
In my work as a technical editor working on marketing campaigns for new inventions, SEO is considered an important part of the job. I’m beginning to see how important it is to blogging, too. I admit it: Before I worked in marketing, I had no idea what SEO was or why it was so significant. […]
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Construction criticism (or where have all the detours gone?)
Constructive criticism is the art of offering feedback on work performance to help a person improve. Construction, specifically road construction, is an effort to improve the roads. Construction criticism is the art of questioning the timing and method of road construction with the seeming goal of making my route to work so ridiculous that any […]
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When everything feels like straw…
I left the meeting feeling overwhelmed. Sad thing is that I was leaving a meeting I led. Sigh. Afterward, I ran into a colleague in the hall who casually asked, “How’s it going?” To which I answered, “I think I’m going to quit,” an idle threat, of course, but I could sense the emotion pressing […]
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Kicking boot and taking aim…
*Warning: This blog post has no substance whatsoever. Last year I ordered a pair of boots online, got them, tried them on, felt they went with nothing I owned, and returned them. This year, I ordered a pair of boots online — not because I liked just the sale price but because I liked the […]
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An office of one’s own…
I have always wanted my own office — at home or at work. But until today, that never happened. I have had my own classroom — which isn’t the same. Students seem to think it is their classroom and encroach on my personal space. The school seems to think it is its classroom and schedules […]
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When work is the escape…
I have never been more thankful that I gave up teaching than I am today. If I were a teacher, I would not be heading to work. Instead, I would be living the life fantastic — cleaning and cooking and preparing for Thursday’s big bash at my leisure. Lucky me! I get to go to work. […]
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“Dine at desk” November…
Because we went out for lunch to celebrate the birthday of a colleague yesterday — and went out for lunch last week to bid farewell to a colleague moving to another city — my husband has taken to asking me what I am doing for lunch, as if on a daily basis I am having […]
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The view from inside…
It felt as if I were in Mrs. Repulski’s Advanced Humanities class again. “I’d better explain this better,” my English teacher abruptly would interrupt her own lecture, adding: “Sara looks confused.” It’s rather embarrassing at times, but my face is nothing but honest. If I were confused, it showed. Mrs. Repulski would then take the time to explain the […]
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When friendship trumps light…
Dear Diana, When I awakened at 3:30 a.m. Colorado time, my first thought was that I was glad you weren’t here. I turned on the light, made some coffee, wrote for awhile, went for a workout, and then came back and got ready for the day. No tiptoeing, no making coffee in the dark, no […]
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