Alex Berger
I find myself sitting here digesting a surreal moment. Somehow, like sands carried by a rushing river, moments have swept into minutes, days, months, weeks, years and now a decade and a half. On July 19, 2011 I held back tears of joy and sadness as I gave my folks a big hug, turned and boarded my...
Alex Berger
What’s this post? As some of you have now come to anticipate – every year I publish a birthday reflection post. I hope you’ll enjoy these thoughts and take them for what they are – an attempt to share the world as I see it and how I relate to it. It’s a mixture of observations, musings,...
Alex Berger
If I’m honest, I can’t quite believe 40 is already here. For years I’ve used it as a mental waypoint somewhere in the distant future. A mental marker to deflect or defer societal pressure while at the same time continuing to do what feels right in each moment. Now that it has arrived, it’s a good...
Alex Berger
I’ve always been very interested in language, culture, how we communicate and the different influences our native and adopted cultures have on us. Several years ago I was introduced to the communication pattern charts from “When Cultures Collide” by Richard Lewis. I love how these provide an...
Alex Berger
Hello 37! How rapidly you have arrived. For those unfamiliar, every year I publish a birthday reflection post. I hope you’ll enjoy these thoughts and take them for what they are – an attempt to share the world as I see it and how I relate to it. It’s a mixture of observations, musings,...
Alex Berger
Whelp. That was a year. As I re-read last year’s birthday blog post, I get goosebumps. Published on March 31st, a few days after my birthday, the company where I work had just announced a three months 20% salary reduction/one day a week furlough. COVID cases were skyrocketing. I had just jumped on...