Cog and Dog

A guide to rebuilding health, hope, and happiness, written from outside the cubicle

Started from the bottom, now I’m burned out and exhausted

January 8, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I grew up in a trailer park. Like many who went without a lot, my idea “making it” has long been defined by obtaining the kinds of things I didn’t have growing up: Granite countertops. A luxury living space. Brand-name clothes. I understood that in order to reach those mile markers for success, I’d have […]

The Day I Cried At Work

July 27, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

“My feedback would be best discussed in person,” the email read. So we gathered. The four of us sat in a conference room no bigger than a linen closet, and I sat silently while two men I’d never talked to picked apart my project limb by limb. I’d asked reviewers to send their notes in […]