My hypothetical career nightmare is easy: Wake up one morning without any usable skills to carry with me through the next transition. I call this end...
The menu of the day, with Grouper as the late additionAfter 90 minutes of waiting, our family finally sat down to dinner.“We’re so sorry. Our fisherm...
You have to love the Spanish greeting, “Hola!”Perhaps the most welcoming of all salutations, the uplift in tone when spoken invites an immediate smil...
A snapshot at our Christmas Crew in Vienna last yearLast year was my first Christmas that I spent away from home, away from my family.It wasn’t an ea...
A peek at La Placita in San Juan on a Saturday nightFrom the quiet, residential looks of the streets, you might get the impression that you’ve wander...
A few years ago, I had a week-long work trip to London.During the week, I was working jam-packed days — getting up for breakfast meetings and coffees...
So, you landed an in-person job interview? Good for you! You’re one step closer to getting a foot in the door someplace new (and hopefully better) th...
There’s been a bit of a movement to get back into writing lately. Between the responses from Anil Dash’s Tweet on how he’s been blogging for 20 years...
It’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as ...
It was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major prob...
