balance
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August pushed work stress to a breaking point and forced me to think more seriously about what comes next. I’m making changes, considering new opportunities, and trying to separate the desire for meaningful change from the urge to simply escape. Outside of work, cooking, time at the lake, and a little creative space have helped…
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Finals week in an independent school is a strange mixture of exhaustion, ceremony, logistics, and controlled chaos. Between AP exams, commencement events, MacBook collections, foundation repairs at home, and a neighborhood power grid apparently held together with dental floss and a prayer, this week has felt like an extended exercise in keeping systems, and myself,…
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Taking this week off has given me a rare chance to breathe. After months of constant work and feeling buried under the weight of responsibility, I’m finally seeing that the systems I’ve built are starting to work. The school is running smoother, I’m regaining perspective, and I can actually feel the difference in my body…
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Some summers have their own rhythm. They allow time for slow mornings, long afternoons, and evenings that stretch lazily into the night. This was not one of those summers. I knew as far back as March that this summer would be different. That was when my role and responsibilities shifted, taking on more than I…
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I think the problem with New Year’s, as a concept for me is focused so heavily on the clean slate aspect that it makes resolutions that are not about reinvention seem unworthy of the event. I want to be clear in how I say that is, with full understanding, from my point of view I’m…