Confession time. I do not like writing about public speaking anxiety. The subject is over-saturated, drowning good advice in a sea of recycled aphorisms. Still, every few years I wade back in and here we are. It is, in my…
It is a grey morning in Boston. Around Boston, businesses are issuing new restrictions and updated masking rules in response to the Delta variant of COVID. My office building is among them. I find it both reassuring and disheartening. In…
Somedays you would rather just stay in bed, with Netflix, and forget the outside world is there. Somedays you are actually feeling ill. Some of these days you still have to get out there and speak to humans, sometimes lots…
I was just on vacation for a couple of weeks, camping with friends at a fairly large event. This morning, my Facebook feed has a pretty significant number of posts noting anxiety, dread, or general hesitation about returning to work…