Faith, Fiction, Friends

It showed up as a Facebook memory, a story I hadn’t thought about in years. I’d posted in August of 2009 on my blog and linked it from Faceb...

I’ve spent a few weeks reflecting on my incredibly short, and incredibly long, eight months with St. Louis Public Schools. What began with t...

I worked as director of Communications for St. Louis Public Schools for eight months. It was the position I worked for the least amount of t...

If I had any doubts  from the job interview , the  first day on the job was confirmation .  The next few months underscored it . If I could ...

After Leviticus 2:1-2   We offer not only our work to the Lord, we are to offer the best of our work, not the grain but the flour, flour wit...

After Leviticus 1:1-4   Work is that five-day thing, left behind on the weekend when we rest, when we relax, when we worship. But not left b...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work – It Intensifies It – Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye at  Harvard Business Review .  Grief Goes Hand in Hand w...

After Genesis 1:27 - 2:15   Created perfectly, to be done perfectly, work joined the rest of creation with the fall, cursed life the rest of...

After Genesis 1:27 – 2:15   From that first movement of the beginning, it was work. Creation was work, a weaving of created things. Into man...

The Most Valuable Class I Ever Had – Chris Martin at FYI. The Nazis Did Not ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech. They Crushed It  – Andrew Roberts at Th...

No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.    Left in the Rain  – poem by Renee Emerson at Story Warren.   Re...

I had lunch with a friend and former colleague last week. We hadn’t worked together since 2015, and I hadn’t seen her since 2018. But we wer...

In 2014, I hit a wall at work. I was marginalized. I was being paid for work far below my experience and capabilities. Wanting to get up in ...

It’s   Poetry at Work Day , and I find myself thinking about names in the workplace.       I’ve been long fascinated with the names of chara...

The most solitary job in corporate America is not the position of CEO. It’s the position of the CEO’s speechwriter. It can be the lonel...

I was sitting with a woman in the Human Resources Department. There had been a reorganization of our department, part of a general resh...

It was the strangest interview I’ve ever participated in – on either side of the table. A friend had talked me, or conned me, into ...

After Matthew 25:14-30 A blessing or a curse, a chariot or a hearse, a bane or a boon, all of these simultaneously ...

It’s Poetry at Work Day 2020, and I went looking for wisdom literature about work. Many of us have had experiences with works, jobs,...

I might have retired twice from the same company. I officially retired in 2015, and I’d had given a year’s notice. I could have con...