Monthly Archive: April 2018

Please Stand By

via GIPHY I mentioned earlier that I was working on a refresh of my home page to spiffy it up for visitors and that I thought doing the coding myself was a great idea since I’ve also been itching to refresh and update my web development skills. So it’s taken a bit longer than I originally planned, since these are...

NC Courage v Utah Royals game recap

It was a perfect afternoon for soccer in Cary, NC as the 4-0-0 NC Courage took on the Utah Royals, in their first-ever NWSL matchup1. Utah was coming off a 0-1 loss to Chicago a week ago, while the undefeated and league-leading Courage were playing their third game in eight days. Utah challenged the Courage in the very early moments...

#vicstergrammed

A look back at my last #morningcommute in #sanfrancisco. #ferrybuilding #vicstergrammed Source

The Raleigh World: Month Three

Soooooo… Pollen Season is a thing here. The stuff that turns everything yellow is pine pollen: it flies through the air like snow, though in daylight you don’t really notice it until it accumulates on a surface (usually within a few minutes). Though it looks like I should be scratching my face off, the pine pollen doesn’t seem to trigger...

Rainy Caturday Afternoon

The Scene: Clancy relaxes in catloaf position as he looks out the window. I lean on the platform below him with my arms folded underneath me. “Clancy, look! I’m MOMloafing!” “Momloafing isn’t a thing.” “MOMLOAF!” “You’re irritating me.”

What I’m Listening To: Let’s Fix Work

My friend Laurie Ruettimann has a brand new podcast called “Let’s Fix Work” and it is fantastic! Laurie and her guests have interesting, thought-provoking discussions about the often confusing relationship between employees and management. And for those of us who believe that blowing up our career is the right move, Laurie and her guests talk about shifting careers, side hustles,...

The Raleigh World: My First NC Courage Match

For all that the Bay Area has to offer in sports, it lacks women’s professional basketball1 and soccer teams. Luckily, now that I’m in Raleigh, National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) matches are just a few minutes from home. I attended my first North Carolina Courage match last Saturday against Sky Blue FC (based in New Jersey). The Courage held a...