Author Archives: gmayeaux

Springing forward!

The sun is shining for the first time in over a week here and the sky is one of those brilliant blue mornings that fill the house and my heart with light. After winter’s return, it feels like spring is finally going to have its say. The weatherman predicts the next two weeks will beContinue reading “Springing forward!”

New shoots

It’s planting season around here! This weekend, my husband will start about 200 onion seeds. Meanwhile, safely tucked under some row cover are 50 garlic bulbs just doing their thing (although they were planted last fall). In the next few weeks, we will establish our “grow operation” by the fireplace room sliding glass doors completeContinue reading “New shoots”

Wait?! There’s time to read?

One of the first things to go when I got so busy was making time to read. If it wasn’t a trade journal, information I was authoring for a client’s needs or some other work-related material, I wasn’t reading it. Reading had become a luxury I could not afford. When others would post on socialContinue reading “Wait?! There’s time to read?”

Spring is in the air!

Yesterday felt like spring. The air was clean and a bit cool but the sun felt warm, the day was long and the radiant heat meant that as we headed out for a quick bite to eat last night after working on our floors, we only needed sweatshirts. Even though today’s forecast calls for rain,Continue reading “Spring is in the air!”

Beware the Ides of March?

I work for myself. Just let that sink in. After 39 years of working for others, I work for myself. That’s pretty stinking cool. I am now past the anxiety and the excited stage. I have settled into the idea that life, somehow, is going to be different. I just have to experience it first.Continue reading “Beware the Ides of March?”

When simplicity reigns…

In the winddown from my old job, I have an hour-long zoom today and some follow-up work. That’s it. Thanks to amazing kitty sitters who also cleaned up after my pride the day we came home from vacation, the house is pretty tidied up. As a result, I sit here with just three days leftContinue reading “When simplicity reigns…”

Defining myself.

I read a somewhat interesting treatise yesterday about the concept of a “traditional wife,” a so-called “tradwife” for short. The article was a bit biased, focusing on one woman’s unhappy experience and then, in an attempt at equity, threw in a brief interview of another woman’s happy experience. What got lost in the shuffle? Well,Continue reading “Defining myself.”

What success looks like…

When I was a CEO, I used to ask a question that drove my staff nuts: what does success look like? Whenever we would start a project, I would ask those five little words, mostly to groans, eye rolls and a few half-hearted laughs. It became our running joke and I rolled with it. DeepContinue reading “What success looks like…”

All things calm and quiet.

It’s time to begin anew. I had originally typed, “In a few weeks, my new life begins.” But after some serious thinking, I will correct that: my new life begins. No “in a few weeks” for me. As much as these next few weeks are the end of the end, they are also the beginningContinue reading “All things calm and quiet.”