• cinco de marcho

    Day 4

    It’s Monday and I am not at work. What?! It still has not hit me yet because it feels like some long weekend. It’s also Cinco de Marcho, our 7-year anniversary. We semi-celebrated the…

    March 5, 2018
  • winning

    Day 3

    First hyacinth blooms are appearing inside. Glimpses of spring. It’s an Academy Award-winning day. My beloved partner (I called him my day husband) of 15 years from work and his wife are coming for…

    March 4, 2018
  • weekend

    Day 2

    It still has not sunk in. And probably will not for a couple days. 15 years of the same routine takes some time to release. I was highly responsible and the job was on…

    March 3, 2018
  • a new dawn

    Day 1

    It’s my first day of no work. It’s surreal. It has not sunk in yet. It’s a day of love letters from my now ex-colleagues. I feel like I have died and have the…

    March 2, 2018
  • ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

    Day Zero

    Last day. I was at one ad agency for 15 years of brainstorms, thai food, jokes, deck-building, revisions, cafeteria changes, aha moments, color palettes, client stumbles and victories, silly acronyms, photo searches, song searches, far flung shoots, train rides,…

    March 1, 2018