It’s uncanny in the most tragic way that historically and without fail, my business travel in the winter time intersects almost exactly with the weather forecasters shouting that a storm is coming.\u00a0\u00a0 My business travel is not optional, for the most part, however a lot of it can be scheduled around my personal calendar.\u00a0 That said, it cannot be scheduled around mother nature’s calendar apparently.\u00a0 And no one knows this better than my wife, whom I have now stranded at home with an infant on countless occasions.\u00a0 This particular trip took me many miles away, across the nation to Portland, where the climate was temperate at best, and a bit chilly at worst.\u00a0 Back home, where my eight month old lives, the skies dumped nearly a foot of snow, rendering many local roads impassable, our condo parking lot treacherous, and the idea of walking our dog and bundling up the stroller a nightmare.\u00a0 Though the feeling of stress my wife was surely feeling was tangible, it cannot be discounted the similar stress and feeling of helplessness that I feel despite being in a cozy and warm meeting room environment.\u00a0 Business trips and travel in general can surely be stressful, though admittedly, none of this kind of stuff has ever felt stressful to me.\u00a0 But now, now that my life has changed so dramatically, I finally feel the stress of being away and the desire to race home at my first opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s uncanny in the most tragic way that historically and without fail, my business travel in the winter time intersects almost exactly with the weather forecasters shouting that a storm is coming.\u00a0\u00a0 My business travel is not optional, for the most part, however a lot of it can be scheduled around my personal calendar.\u00a0 That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n