Day: January 29, 2008

  • Enjoying My Flaws

    Enjoying My Flaws

    I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between. They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size of a pinhead, and…

  • Why I’m Not Looking for My “Other Half”

    Why I’m Not Looking for My “Other Half”

    It’s been at least a dozen years since I was first introduced to Stephen Covey’s THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE but I had forgotten his theories on dependence to independence to interdependence until someone read them to me recently in context of our work environment. I was still teasing my colleague about why,…