Extremely Serious Yet Ridiculously Silly
There are several things I would change about my house, given the opportunity to do so, but our family room is pretty large with high ceilings, and we all love it. We purposely have a decent portion of the room empty so Amelia can run around, pull out all 3,000 Lego blocks at once, or … Continue reading Mom Always Said…
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Christmas Eve of 2014, my mother-in-law, Mary, drove up from central Illinois to celebrate with my husband, daughter, and me. She brought along her daughter, Lida, and the daughter’s new husband, Brent. We did the big meal thing, chatted over mostly coffee—I don’t drink coffee and my daughter, Amelia, was two years old—then settled into … Continue reading Apparently, Some Lessons Stick
Before my daughter, Amelia, was born, I had been a successful IT project manager for over a decade. Project management is one of those things that sounds boring on its face, but depending on the environment and how much the PM needs to accomplish, it can be exhilarating—and exhausting. One of my favorite projects was … Continue reading My Path to Freelance Writing
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A few weeks ago, our television started randomly switching sources. We’d be watching a streaming channel when the TV would blip, and then we’d be looking at broadcast TV or the DVD player. At first we thought the remote had an issue, but after several sets of new batteries and a sternly worded conversation with … Continue reading Navigating Family Purchases: TV Edition
Amelia has always taken very good care of her toys. She also can’t stand parting with anything. We hit Christmas, her birthday, or any other gift-giving occasion, and our extremely generous family showers her with gifts, yet nothing ever leaves. The result: shelf upon shelf filled with items. This past year, something changed. It started … Continue reading Time to Give Away Some Toys
A couple of months ago, while I was starting to get the hang of this freelancing thing, I attended a well-respected, successful writer’s webinar. He declared that if I wanted to be taken seriously, I’d create a self-hosted WordPress site instead of keeping my site on WordPress.com. At the same time, I kept running into … Continue reading Well, That Was Interesting
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