Have you ever found yourself wishing that you had more gold stars in your life? At the end of the day, have you ever thought “Heck, I prepared multiple meals for multiple people, filed my taxes, flossed and put all my clothes away. Where the heck are my stars?” Well,…
Mid-life Makeover (or 9 things that can change your life)
About a year ago, I was in a pretty low place (not literally in a canyon or below sea level but in my mind, in my self). Backtracking a bit, about 1.5 years ago I stopped working to stay home with my two kids. I did this right before winter came with…
Peanuts
I have a problem. A situation. There is a child in my daughter’s class who has a severe peanut allergy. I’m not sure which child it is, but we have been told it is a serious problem and there are no nuts in the classroom. Got it, understand, I can…
Update to my readers
I trust that most of the regular readers I had developed over the first couple of months of relatively regular posting (the ten of you) will have abandoned me by now as I have pretty much stopped posting except for the occasional shared article with brief commentary. (Number one rule…
Lemon vs. Knope: a response
I haven’t written a new post since reading this article on Medium (A Leslie Knope In a World Full of Liz Lemons, subhead: Liz Lemon is who the world wants you to be. Leslie Knope is who you should aim to be). It’s a great piece and I won’t try…
1975
I turn 40 this year. Turns out a lot of people I know do too. And a lot of people I don’t know also. Yesterday, I read this article about a Brooklyn woman turning 40: Age 40: Ain’t nobody got time for that. I really understood the perspective, and celebrated…
In which a snow day makes a mockery of my one resolution for 2015
I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about some actionable goals with “well formed outcomes” to work towards in 2015. New year, new you and all of that. I have three in my mind that are still pretty amorphous – 1) write something, 2) earn some amount of…
2014 In Review: The Year of Hans
Author’s Note: I had intended to post the following blog just before Christmas. This was before I, along with my husband, sister, mom, dad, aunt, cousin, and probably hundreds of innocent patrons of Cracker Barrels along I-81 contracted the dread vomits mentioned in my previous post. Rather than updating it…
The first day of the rest of my life
Monday was my last day at my job. Gone are the office, the company laptop, the work email, the pending discussions and decisions and negotiations and frustrations. No more office gossip. I went to sleep Monday night, exhausted, but happy and hopeful and feeling that there might just be possibilities…
What’s next
Blogging is sort of like keeping a diary and sharing it with all of your friends. And also people you haven’t spoken with in 20 years, and distant relatives, and faraway strangers. And possibly perverts. Luckily for me, right now it’s just me and 300 or so of my closest…