Category: An Accidental Podcaster

There are reasons I don't tend to go back to my blog posts after they've been published. At least, not for a year or so. I'm highly critical of my own work, and going back through old posts a few weeks after they go live almost always results in a facepalming of "I should have… Continue reading This Post Has Not Been Edited

It started with an argument over my lack of sleep. I didn't have to see him to know my friend's face was cringing as he rubbed his temples with one hand. Given enough time and attention, one gets very good at deciphering the various not-exactly-verbal sounds and gestures someone else makes, especially when frustrated. For… Continue reading Shifted Perspectives

To say I moved around a lot as a child is an understatement. By the time I finished college and moved to Cleveland, I'd had 13 'permanent' addresses in my then 23 years, not counting the bouncing around between divorced parents and other friends and relatives on the weekends. School was the one stable place… Continue reading Friendship

Years ago, when I was an undergrad, our campus honors fraternity raised money for our local Habitat for Humanity chapter by soliciting sponsors for us to be "homeless" for one Friday evening in the fall. We had a lot of supporters during the build-up, but when the day arrived, more than half the group retreated… Continue reading Thankful Thoughts

At the beginning of summer this year, the company which provides my day job made the difficult decision to begin phasing out a number of locations across the country. The unfortunate byproduct of this was a large number of positions being eliminated at the various affected campuses. It wasn't unexpected, but it was still an… Continue reading Opinions

It's amazing how one conversation can change your perspective on so many things. So Friday I had to go visit my doctor, which is decidedly not in my top fifty things I prefer to do on a sunny Friday afternoon. Or ever, actually. My doctor's actually pretty cool to talk to – he does a… Continue reading Data Points

So I scared the crap out of a small child this weekend. It was completely unexpected, and certainly unintentional. I was dressed as Little Bo Peep, for crying out loud. I had a little pink bonnet and a basket full of friendly plush sheepies on my arm. My crook was hanging off the back of… Continue reading Fears

Ghost in the Podcast covered an interesting blog post last week. In it, Jessica Curry from the UK game studio The Chinese Room (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs) outlined her reasons for stepping back from her company to pursue her own work. Her three main reasons for the decision, per Curry's article, were health, never wanting to… Continue reading Glass Ceilings

In the game of podcasting, timing can be everything. Opportunities not acted upon can slip by as quickly as they present themselves, sometimes so quickly that they're gone before you even know they are there. Other times, priorities take over and you have to let something go just because the timing doesn't work out. And… Continue reading Magic

The weekend had been going so well. We started off interviewing some really cool RivalFriends on Friday night's RCM On Tap. Saturday was spent almost entirely on the couch in comfy clothes, catching up on naps and books (yes, folks, I actually took a day off!). Sunday was a powerhouse of editing work: I proofed… Continue reading Deadlines