So now I'm blogging. With my life the way it is now it seems like I am always running; rushing our the door to work, rushing from work to class, rushing home from class to see my family then falling in to bed at night. This past fifteen months have been pretty significant for me. I have enrolled in and completed four semesters of graduate school (three left until I graduate with an MPA); I have taken on significant challenges at work and doubled the number of staff who report directly to me; not to mention that my wife had a baby thirteen months ago. Yeah, this year may be the most significant of my adult life so far.
Last semester I was having a conversation with one of my professors about some challenges that I was having with a member of the executive management team at work. She suggested that I start a journal of my successes and failures. This may serve me in the future when I may be confronted with similar challenges; I would be able to look back on what worked and what didn't in certain situations. I rejected her advice at first because she is a hippie. Come on, she made us read David Whyte in a Public Administration course! But when I got to thinking about it, a journal of sorts may serve a purpose. Even the act of writing down some of these challenges may be cathartic in some way. So anyhow, now here I am blogging away...
The purpose of this blog is for me to have a space to process my thoughts about work, grad school, being a father and being a partner in my marriage. I am going to add a disclaimer to this blog that it is MY blog; it's purpose is for ME to process MY feelings. If you somehow stumble upon it and become upset by what you read, oh, well. I will state now that I will make no apologies for what I write here. If you read this and are hurt, offended, angered or saddened, PLEASE, stop reading. This is not for you.
