Archive for the 'Reflections' Category

• 1.1.08 "Highlights and Hopes" is posted in Reflections, Work & Career

Every year I look back and say, “wow, so much happened…but now I’m poised for this big thing.” Well that’s once again the case (this time it’s AwayFind). 2007 was a fun and busy year both with friends and work, and 2008 will be even more packed with trips and new people.  But to look forward, it’s often best to look back…and that’s what I’m writing about here with some highlights and hopes.  Do you have any interesting resolutions for the new year?

Highlights:

In no particular order, these are the things that a few years from now when I look back I’ll want to remember.  All of them were things that in some way shaped who I was this year.  If one of these relates to you, thank you for being a part of that memory.

• AwayFind - building a web application
  
• Book Clubs - learning so much, even more from the people
• Crested Butte - Galt’s Gulch, and the start of a tradition for me
• DC Tech Community - like-minded geeks and entrepreneurs
• Dinner Parties - company from my different circles, at the house
• Dover MA - a good place to be from
• Four Hour Workweek - I should shut up about it, but this book changed me
  
• Surrogate Girlfriend - Having a best friend and good company

 Hopes

Every year my hope is some cross between balance and ambition–running more, entertaining more, saving, developing a more routine schedule, etc.  But over the course of the year reasons that I can’t predict tend to change my focus.  Still, as of now here are some things I hope for:

For my sanity and social life: (more…)

• 11.27.07 "Sarcasm for Grown-Ups" is posted in Friendship, Reflections, Relationships

For the longest time I looked at sarcasm as a way of life, but the older I get the more I realize we have to be careful with our words and grow up a little.

I was on a camping trip earlier this year and made a snide remark about a dear friend of mine, one who has been like a sister to me in the last five years. It led to a couple serious conversations and a vastly improved friendship–one with a little bit gentler teasing. And I now doubly understand:

A similar thing happened to me not too long ago with my sister. I know her intentions were innocuous, but it struck a chord. And now a serious conversation awaits.

A love for sarcasm was not something that came to me by chance. (more…)

• 9.30.07 "101 years old. It’s Birthday Time." is posted in Quote/Lyric, Reflections

This Monday marked the seventh year that Ian and I have visited the grave on his birthday, exactly a week before mine, 5 days after my sister’s, and the same week as L’s and K’s. F Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1896, and Jason, Ian, (and a series of girl/friends), and I have visited almost every year on this day since college started.



Sometimes tradition is who you are, sometimes it’s who you were… but it always brings you to that place somewhere in between. It’s like how when you visit family it’s easy to regress to childhood roles. Hanging out with Ian, reading This Side of Paradise aloud, it was so easy to dip in and out of college and the nostalgia of those days. (more…)