Where do you want to go?

I’ve written before about New Year’s Resolutions. For some reason my brain is wired to set goals and create plans. I find it sort of entertaining. That’s not to say I follow through on every plan. Far from it. Many are just temporary structures like a pop-up tent. In most cases my level of commitment […]
What have I done?

This time of year we are thinking ahead to the new year and what it will bring. We make resolutions and set goals, but there is often a missing piece in our planning. What have we accomplished? Many of us are quick to overlook all we have done in the past year. Once our tasks […]
Hooray for me and cool opportunity for you

I’m sure you will join me in rejoicing the fact that Michael and I both passed our written driver’s exam in Italian. This was a truly huge accomplishment. On the day we took the exam, many mother tongue speakers did not do so well. I plan to milk this achievement for a good long time. […]
I ought to be able to do this myself

Sometimes I get great satisfaction from figuring out how to do things myself. I once spent a ridiculous amount of time turning an old router into a wireless bridge to boost the signal upstairs. It worked! I also tried to teach myself programming so that I could build an app I had an idea for. […]