What Can You Learn from the Experience?
Jerry Weinberg used to say something like this. This is what I remember. I don’t know if this is the actual quote: “You paid the tuition for the experience. The…
Read moreWhat Does Your Anger Reflect?
I had a great day yesterday. I had some meetings that went well. I heard from the guy I’d asked to write the foreword to Agile and Lean Program Management.…
Read moreHow Do You Flex?
Create an Adaptable Life Vol 4 # 3: How Do You Flex? November 2, 2015 How Do You Flex? There’s a discussion on LinkedIn about an agile team with a…
Read moreI Can Hear You Now
I’m deaf in my right ear. It’s aggravating, because I speak at conferences, and I have lunches and dinners at round tables. Can I hear the person on my right?…
Read moreSingles-Sided Deafness Makes Dancing Work
Mark and I take ballroom dancing lessons. As with many couples who’ve been taking lessons for years, we are working on different problems in our dancing. We have different strengths,…
Read moreTravel Humor
Incident #1. I travel a lot. TSA loves to see how my vertigo is doing. At least, I think that’s what they are doing, because they ask me to go…
Read more“Why Did It Take You So Long?”
I promised a few posts ago I would answer the question, “Why did it take you so long” when Daniel asked me about using a cane. You see the same…
Read moreAnother Socially Awkward Moment: Help Please
Being deaf in my right ear makes for some socially awkward moments. They often occur on airplanes, especially if I’m sitting on the left side of the airplane. Planes, even…
Read moreAll Elevators Arrive on the Left
When I first was coping with my sudden hearing loss, I had a number of conferences. I thought I was coping really well. I was trying to take care of…
Read moreOne-Sided Deafness Can Be Helpful
Ordinarily, I would not say that being deaf at all is useful. But there is one time when it is very helpful—when my husband is snoring :-) My husband is…
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