An Ode to Amazing Women
My great-grandmother Mollye was left-handed like me. Her sister Maude ran away to join the circus, but Mollye worked as a domestic, cleaning houses for wealthy families, and later in a munitions factory in St. Louis. Mollye’s daughter, Alice, was born in 1912, eight years before women could vote. Alice moved across the country with […]
My Data Driven Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
Every December, I love to do a year-end assessment of my life and plan for the new year ahead. In the past, that’s meant looking at some metrics and reflecting on how I feel. If I hit a certain number in revenue — “it was a good year” — keep going. If I was feeling exhausted — “it was a busy […]
Southpaws and Snowblowers
My parents (pictured here in 1966, the year they got married) don’t live in a part of the country where snowblowers are standard issue, but last year my dad got one for the first time. The plan, my mom explained, was that Daddy had bought the snowblower but Thomas from next door (who was trained […]