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For so long, I prided myself on NOT being a team person. Sure, I collaborated with writers, editors, and clients one-on-one. But I’m talking about a real team. Of many people. The kind that has meetings and group emails, goes out drinking together,…

  A few weeks ago, I went to the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) conference in New York City. It was my eighth time going to the conference in 11 years. This year was especially awesome, because I scheduled time outside of the…

I’ve always been kind of an outlier. Not demographically or in a way that is apparent to others. After all, I’m a middle-aged, middle-income, brown-haired, blue-eyed white girl, who lives in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Ohio and follows a…

Last week, I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s the seventh or eighth Mac I’ve bought in the 20+ years I’ve been a computer user. My first new one was 1996, when I went off to graduate school. I don’t recall it being stressful, because all I had to do…

Do you ever feel like life is not happening on time? I do. It manifests as the fear of wasting time—not minutes in the day as much as decades. It includes saying things like, “It’s too late for me to do this,” or “This should have happened…