Roshan John

Today I was surprised and honored to receive the inaugural Shoelace Award at our annual workshop for business professionals in the college where I work!

The award is inspired by the book ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ – a favorite of our Head of Finance. Just like on Sniff and Scurry’s own shoes, the shoelace represents having your shoes ready to tie up and get going: to adapt, learn, and move forward when change comes.

I probably wouldn't have described myself as particularly exceptional at this. Isn't all of life marked by change? Learning to come to terms with it and finding the best way to move forward with what we can control seems like something we all have to do. But hearing that others have seen this quality in me over time is encouraging, especially given how closely we work toward shared goals.

One of the things I want to keep growing in, both professionally and personally, is staying teachable. Change is inevitable, and I've come to deeply respect the value of meeting it with curiosity rather than resistance.

I'm grateful to work alongside colleagues who invest in one another and recognize those qualities. Thank you for this unexpected honor!

Also, I've officially run out of sticker space for my Faith & Fandom stickers on my other water bottles... so this Yeti has already found its first job!

A new blog?

For many previous years, I’ve been using Wordpress and a dedicated web-hosting service for running my website and very rarely updated blog. But based on my usage, I did not find the cost and complexity of maintenance that came with it was justified looking back.

In looking for a way to bring it back to basics, I discovered the write.as platform and decided to give it a try. This feels like a more fitting option for my purposes, and time will tell if this will be something I use more regularly. I haven’t been an avid blogger in a long time, though I do like to write, largely doing so in handwritten form nowadays in the form of journal entries.

Let’s see where this goes in the future. If it’s your first time here, here’s a little bit about me.