I wrote a draft of this blog post while on a flight home from Dallas yesterday. My June started with a very early morning wake up and trip from PHL to DFW to give a speech on Monday. I really do enjoy talking with groups in various formats. This was about 40 people gathered in their office. Later in the summer I’ll be doing a big-stage conference type thing for about 8000 people — different styles keep me on my toes and I keep trying to get better at this. (Side note: Did you ever watch my TED talk? It’s been almost 10 years since that came out!)
June will feature a few highlights. We’ll go to a Phillies game as a family to celebrate my husband’s birthday (we’ll also go out to brunch later this month for Father’s Day). We will host the choir picnic and two of my kids will play in music recitals. The 8th grader will graduate and (this is exciting) get her braces off. The 11-year-old may get braces on. We shall see — kind of a revolving door of orthodontia around here. The kindergartner will also have a graduation ceremony. My 19-year-old will come home briefly. The 16-year-old will participate in the national TSA competition. I’ll end the month with some fun personal travel.
On the professional front I will keep promoting Big Time. I welcome ideas of how to share it with new audiences. I also plan to write two more chapters of The Golden Hours (my next book). I have very rough drafts of an intro + Chapter 1 done now. So that’s a start!
I also really want to enjoy June. The honeysuckle smells amazing every time I wander outside. The wild columbines and the roses are out — this is a beautiful time of year, when summer is new and full of possibility. I love the image that June is the Friday night of summer! There are always a million things to do but the schedule is opening up as activities end and so it’s a good time for a little lingering. What’s on your June list?
In the meantime, KJ Dell’Antonia’s #AmReading newsletter featured Big Time as its “Just One Book” (J.O.B) last week — you can read that here. She called it “her best yet” and “the kind of helpful gut punch we all need.” So amazing.
I also realized that in posting Big Time links last week I didn’t post my own actual content. So, as one quick highlight, over at the Before Breakfast podcast, I interviewed Eric Ries, author of Incorruptible (and The Lean Start-Up). Please check that out and check out his new book!
