Tag Archive For "Al Kags"
My experience searching for a Personal Assistant and other stories
Over the past few months, I have been on an employment spree of sorts. At the Open Institute, we had a number of positions that opened up and at a personal level I have also been hoping to find a Personal Assistant (or Executive Assistant as they are called) – a person who would help …
Champions for Change: Orienting me to my mission
The past couple weeks have been important weeks for me. It just so happens that November 2018 is one of my busiest months and I have felt more than a little overwhelmed in the past few days than most days – so much so that it has been difficult to function, to get things done. …
STORY: The Man who walked with the cat at 3am.
It’s 3 in the morning and he is outside, walking. The street lamps on the quiet street do nothing to illuminate the darkness engulfing his mind, his heart, his soul. He is finally broken. He wishes now that he was brave enough to end it somehow. Keep walking like Johnny Walker. Away. Another city? Another …
Why I want to be a better writer.
I was born to be a writer. To see the world in pure silence, to feel its rhythms and its impulses and to figure out how to express that on paper. On most days, when I am being successful as a writer, I stand in the shadows and watch people as they go about their …
#OdeToYouth 8: Your 20’s “TurnUp” turns up in your 30’s
At some point when I was in my twenties, I did very many jobs – at one time, I had five jobs: I was working in a small consulting firm business from 7am-4pm, a cyber cafe (they were necessary and mainstream those days) from 4.30pm to 7.30pm, I served cocktails in a hotel from 8pm to midnight …