- Archive
- for April, 2010
Jumping for the Cause: Unfiltered.
Cancer is one scary beast. That’s what we call it in my family, “the beast”. My mom was diagnosed with oral cancer when I was a senior in high school, literally weeks before my senior prom. She’s now seven years cancer free. YAY! GO MOM! When I found out earlier this year that a colleague of mine has an aggressive...
Three Steps to Getting a Kickass Mentor: Unfiltered.
One of the things I’ve been super-jazzed about since I graduated last year has been this whole relationship-building thing. Not limited to those that include romance and flowers, I’m talking about new friends, working relationships with colleagues, and my favorite, the relationship one can have with a mentor. Do you have a mentor? If so, was it someone who was...
Drive: Unfiltered.
Drive. It’s something you can do in a car. It’s a quality you can hold, that whole “being driven” thing. It’s a part in a computer, or at least, it used to be. What is drive to me? Well this weekend, it was two of the three. As I was wrapping things up on Friday, I was talking to my...
It’s not a joke.
A year ago today, I was in “the cove.” It’s the dining room at Charley’s Steakhouse in Tampa that has all the fishing rods on the ceiling. I was an opener, in the middle of stuffing blue cheese olives and replenishing (read: stealing from the servers) the to-go boxes for the bar when my phone rang. 312 number. Shit. That’s...
