Simple Living Category

Work at 38.

11 July 2024 I turned 38 this week. Growing up, my dad often repeated the advice to find what I love to do in the world and then find a job that would pay me for it. Perhaps a little trite, but that advice has been humming in the background of my mind as I’ve […]

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Repost: Using Poetry to Connect to the Work of HRD this Winter

3 January 2023 As Board Members of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD), we take turns writing posts for the monthly newsletter, the AHRD Digest. This past month it was my turn, and I decided to write about poetry’s connection to HRD. I thought I would repost it on my personal website because it […]

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7 Tips to Simple Urban Living in DC

January 2, 2016 If you’re a “normal” twenty-someone living in DC, you probably work for somewhere between $30,000-90,000, have a car payment, and have somewhere between $15,000-150,000 of student loan debt (and you probably have $2000-5000 of credit card debt… but hey, you’re “building credit” right?). Just two weeks ago I heard someone in a […]

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