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

In the course of building a media empire, it's important to take pause every so often to reconnect with one's roots. Too often, we get caught in the never-ending train of day-to-day tasks and lose track of how quickly time is passing. This is especially true if the course of life moves you to a… Continue reading Homecoming

It never ceases to astound me how tiny gestures can have such a huge impact. All of this was brought very much into focus last week as I was preparing for some (very much needed) time off from my day job. To give some backstory, about a year ago I started using one of the… Continue reading Monday Motivation

I blew my nose one last time as we left the garage, thanking the heavens that the Excedrin was finally starting to kick in and praying I'd make it through the next few hours. Dark clouds threatened overhead, scattering a few cold raindrops as we approached the designated meet spot. At our left was the… Continue reading Showtime

In retrospect, we really should have known better. We'd entered the task under the assumption that it would be fairly easy to find a solution we wanted. This was because theoretically, what we were doing should have been a simple task: screen sharing a particular video to a pre-selected and thus very limited audience via a private… Continue reading YES WE CAN!

So, it finally happened. The warning signs had been building for a while, so it's not like it came as a huge surprise. Being the person I am, I had even planned ahead and scheduled some time off at the end of the month to recuperate, foolishly believing that by promising a break in the… Continue reading Balance