Life balance Archive
I’m BACK. Whew!
0 Comments Published by fgermer June 16th, 2009 in Favorites, Fawn, Hard Won Wisdom, Life balanceThanks for stopping by. I hope you like this and will subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I spent last week on the legendary cycling adventure, the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia. I can’t tell you how much fun I had — but, I can show you. The good was that I had seven [...]
One of the most vibrant women I know is sitting in a remote airport on the other side of the country, waiting for her flight back to sanity. This is a turning point in a two-year relationship with a great guy who has a very, very dark side.
Her boyrfriend can be entertaining and warm and [...]
Bertie and I have been friends for 19 years, so her visit to my home in Florida was something I was quite excited about. Then again…
See, Bertie is 15 years older than I am, and through her, I get a glimpse of what is ahead for me. I suffered through her hot flashes when she [...]
Sliding into Workaholism
0 Comments Published by fgermer March 18th, 2009 in 2009 Challenges, Fawn, Hard Won Wisdom, Life balanceI have never understood the workaholic mindset, and now that I have slid into it, I am even more bewildered.
I haven’t lived this life since I was a 23-year-old, fresh-out-of-college newspaper reporter working an 80-hour week on a series. One night, a friend stopped by the newsroom to pick something up.
“Why am I still here?” [...]
Voker, Bernanke and now Germer weigh in.
0 Comments Published by fgermer February 24th, 2009 in 2009 Challenges, Change, Hard Won Wisdom, Life balanceOver the weekend, we got this from Paul Volker this from former chair of the Federal Reserve and current advisor to President Obama: “I don’t remember any time, maybe even in the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world.”
But today, the headline says Fed Chair Ben “Bernanke [...]
I used to have a life. Now, I have Facebook, Twitter and Linked In.
0 Comments Published by fgermer February 14th, 2009 in Life balanceIn the last month, I have noticed that I am spending more time interacting with my computer than with human beings. I sit in the middle of my family with my laptop set to Facebook or Twitter.
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I am connecting and reconnecting with others, but the cost is too high. I [...]
62,000 jobs cut today and somehow I'm telling you to remain upbeat?
0 Comments Published by fgermer January 26th, 2009 in Life balanceI see those headlines — the ones about tens of thousands of Americans losing their jobs, about our sinking productivity, and (groan) the CITI execs planning to spend $50 MILLION from our bailout money on a nice new jet for themselves. The news makes me sick to my stomach.
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Several weeks ago, I wrote about my close friend, a very rich man who had destroyed his life with alcohol and anger. He was in an intensive care unit, paralyzed with a major brain bleed. At the time, there was a question of life or death. He lived.
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But, what he has and what [...]
