Author: Catherine

do you hunt polar bear?

visiting Ellie at dinner in the Seaport Village Health facility it’s challenging to handle conversation one resident over and over “can I ask you a question? Do you know Gail? Do you know Justine?”...

unloading

A day of work – not too exciting but exhilarating to be by the water – Mount Desert Narrows – unloading the van into Jeff’s basement. The van-sized pile of stuff is all very...

point yourself in that direction

6am – Discuss PRS short year, waivers 8:30am – Weekly status report reminder 10am – Reserving time to discuss PRS 11:30am – FY17 items – go over the requirements for estimation purposes 1pm –...

the stories begin here

I hate to tell you this, but the messaging machine is trying to co-opt “story.” People love stories. People relate to stories. We must tell the story. Our story. Always a “compelling” story. Attraction,...

off brand

A presentation at work about branding. New templates haven’t been released yet, they are hard to use, there are a lot of rules. Images can be singular or vertical. There are bars and palettes,...

adult teal

Home Depot, Behr representative in the paint department wants to help me. Her name is Carmen, how much help can she be in my particular situation? Trying to pick out a teal. Or blue?...

cold heat, hot cold

15, feels like 15. Went outside once today, cold burned my face. The bees are protected, I hope, with a wrap of insulation. Pipes in the mudroom froze. Heat gun going all day didn’t...