I welcomed myself back to work on January 11 after only 8 weeks of maternity leave.  I wasn’t excited about coming back, afterall I now had to leave my precious new baby girl (Dani).  I was only relieved by the fact that I was able to leave my baby with my sister Holly instead of a random daycare and that I had a privacy room to use at the office for the purposes of expressing breastmilk.

A privacy room, so it seems HOK is following the new health care bill that requires employers (of 50 employees or more) to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from …

Some of you may know that I affectionetly refer to HOK as my version of a cult.  It’s rare to see people so excited to work where they work.  I have been caught in the past wearing my very own HOK t-shirt or touting around my HOK water canteen.  So, you can imagine my surprise and elation when out of no where, a magical fairy (we’ll call her Michelle Pinkston) swooped in to my desk and dropped off a congratulatory gift…my baby’s very own HOK onesie!!  I don’t know how the onesie came to fruition, but I LOVE it!!  [I have a sneaking suspicion her sister who seems to recently have had …

It’s only a cast, not an actual peg-leg.

As I prepare to bring a child into this world (I know, scary thought) and my wife and I register for all of the fun baby items, it’s hard not to think about all of the stuff that we, as humans, use. I also recently watched the Human Footprint documentary that was put out by National Geographic (if you haven’t watched this, add it to your list), so I’m even more recently aware of the stuff I procure and use throughout my life.

And then I was forwarded this blog post from BuildingGreen.com about the ULS, or Use Less Stuff, Report. According to Mark Piepkorn, the blogger at BuildingGreen, the …