work balance
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,…Read More
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…Read More
So . . . I sort of like this video blogging thing (vlogging, I believe, is the actual term). After I get beyond the fact that I look like a doofus, it’s sort of fun to experiment with the medium. I might do it more in 2017, or I might not. We’ll…Read More
When we decided it was time to put an addition on our home (my “line in the sand”), my husband called his friend who works in construction. He couldn’t do it, he told us, but he knew who could. He gave my husband a name and number. “No web…Read More
In my first blog post of 2016, I talked about how I was getting quieter, with the express intent to work more. I put an intention out there to focus on landing some big content writing gigs. In my second blog post of 2016, I talked about how I…Read More