I have said it before, and I’m more than happy to say it again. Communication is all about telling stories. The better we tell the story the easier it is to get a message across. Yes, there are people who are “numbers and facts” people. But they see the story in the numbers and facts. They’re still looking for the story, they’re just putting it together a different way.
First, this is not another reference to Lynn-Manuel Miranda’s amazing musical. It’s a reference to something he referenced which I knew about before he referenced it. The World Turned Upside Down was the song the British sang as they marched out after their loss in the Revolutionary War. I used it in 2001 in recognition to the way the world was different…
And So It Goes...One contract ends without another in site.
I promised my kids, and myself, that I wasn’t going to go back into government contracting because it is way too unpredictable. Contracts come and go and change and the person sitting at the desk doing the work has no control over who stays, who goes, who tells the story (all respect due to Lin-Manuel Miranda, but I couldn’t resist). But, after being out of a full-time job for over three…
Paused for a moment to appreciate the quiet. (at Cambria County, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/BofX9ZSny_z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xeelthrj13iy
This is a tough update to make. Keith is currently in the Mental Health Ward on an involuntary 5-day commitment. Some of you have asked or mentioned to me that his behavior has out of character for him, and you’re not wrong. It’s been gradually getting worse since early spring and came to a bit of a head last week. Emergency services were called two separate times and he was kept in the hospital…
One of the things I’ve spent a lot of time doing the last few years is sitting in waiting rooms. Keith has had multiple procedures for inserting catheters, removing catheters, graphing nerves so create his fistula (which is probably another blog post). Then there’s time waiting in the emergency rooms and doctors offices and hallways. You’d think I…