Entering my 40s with a 20/20 vision — There are no shortage of articles prognosticating on what the future of work is — and is not. This is not one of those articles. Rather, this is a personal essay about what works and doesn’t work for me in my relationship to my work. …

Born in October 1883 near Grangeville, Idaho — Over the decades, I receive one of two comments when people want to engage me on my last name (Bradshaw): Are you related to Terry Bradshaw? He’s one of my dad’s / uncle’s favorite football players of all time. Huh, that’s cool. Bradshaw, like Carrie on Sex and the City. …

It’s a win-win. — I think a lot about the jobs that under-leveraged me when I was coming up. They didn’t get my full self; and I wasn’t fully unlocked. In this equation, no one was really winning. It was so obvious to me then. And is even more obvious to me now. Especially…

Until sickness comes, health is not valued. — Growing up, excess holiday candy would be bagged up on top of the fridge. I was allowed a few pieces and, as my oratory skills developed, maybe a few pieces more. But one holiday — maybe Halloween? somehow I remember candy canes, so maybe Christmas? but also, mini snickers… so…

Olympic weightlifting is an object lesson in what it takes to move mass. It’s also an apt metaphor for the physics of life. — The relationship between the literal physics of moving mass and the figurative physics of moving an idea, project, skill, or relationship forward is something I think about a lot. Especially whenever the concept of “going faster” comes up. A few recent examples I’ve encountered:

The more we understand each other with our language, the better we will empathize, collaborate, and solve together. — Jargon. Acronyms. Insider speak. We each have our own library. We also interact with the libraries of others. How well we do three things will indicate just how effective we are at navigating, succeeding, and elevating in this world. …

A critical inquiry into the project of preparing Junction City High School Students for ‘healthy’ lives in the ‘real’ world [June, 2004] — Over three decades ago, Gayle Rubin opened her essay “Thinking Sex” — now the sine qua non of sexuality, queer, gender, and women’s studies — by exhorting her reader: The time has come to think about sex.(1) Disengaging herself from the other approaches to the topic of sex, Rubin puts…

Originally published on my blog Aug 5, 2008. — “And I jotted each of these items down in a little notebook so I could remember them later on, because that whole week I never lost the feeling that I was participating in world event and was linked in a tiny invisible way, to everything that took place everywhere.” (The…