Written by And now you have that song stuck in your head. You’re welcome. READ MORE »
March Round Up
Written by Sometimes you have a big story to tell, and sometimes there’s just a bunch of little ones. We’re not living particularly dramatic lives at the moment – no complaint there – but a number of little wheels are rolling forward. So it’s time for a general round up here at R&K.
Cutting Out The Coffee
I had the first panic attack of my life late one night in the fall of 2004.
It had been a nasty hurricane season in Florida, with five strikes (four hurricanes and a strong tropical storm) in six weeks. We’d been without power, air conditioning, reliable plumbing, traffic lights, general infrastructure for over a month. A storm would hit, knock everything down, it’d take a week to get the lights back on.. and within a day or two, the next storm would knock everything down again.
READ MORE »
Day By Day, Again.
Every so often – not so much these days as it used to be – I find myself talking to someone just on the starting end of self-employment. Newbies are always cute. You see the younger version of yourself. They say and ask all the same things you used to say, and much of it boils down to a single question: how long before I can stop worrying about the day-to-day stuff?
And the answer, of course, is you never can. Stability is temporary, fleeting and often illusory. Clients go. Projects change. Checks arrive when they arrive. The bills relentlessly show up in a steady flood. Often everything doesn’t perfectly line up. And sometimes you have to think fast.
We had a moment like that this week.
READ MORE »