Tis the season to be merry and all that jazz, of course holidays for me mean stress! Don’t get me wrong; at the end of the day, I love my work. It’s rewarding emotionally, mentally and spiritually…the only place where frankly my rewards are lacking are in the cash department. As I have taken to joking, in many ways I …
Today is the kick off of what I lovingly have come to call Hell week, it means I will bust my ass to pull off a fabulous event this week for unknown numbers of people. It’s still early in my corner of the world, hell I haven’t even finished my morning coffee yet. However this morning I was reading Sarah …
Thanks to the explosion of social media (whatever did we do to kill time before Twitter and Facebook), the blog world is not quite what it used to be. As I have said before, I discovered blogs back in late 2004-2005 when pregnant with the now six year old. Tackling motherhood after a 13 year hiatus, and with no relatives …
Is it just me? I swear the years are flying by, seems like only yesterday it was January, where the heck did the time go? Here we are in December, thick in the midst of the holiday madness, where finding time to just think and be is harder to find. Yet for someone whose rhythms now follows the seasons, it …
Times are truly rough and for those of us in the helping professions we are really feeling the effects of the economy. I had been fortunate that the agency I run had been more or less insulated from the economic downturn; in fact we saw our revenues increase at the same time we started seeing a surge in the number …
You ever wake up and realize that for all the fun you get to have as an adult that sometimes being an adult, plain old sucks? The older I get, it’s started to set in that when making decisions you have to think not only short term but long term, that’s where I am now. For all my jokes and …
As an almost middle aged, slightly overweight woman with a job, a young child and way too many things on my plate, I admit when Eden Fantasys offered me Lori Bryant-Woolridge’s The Power of Wow to review, I jumped on the chance to review it. Like so many women, I struggle to stay in touch with my inner sexy—after all, …
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Happy Friday! It’s a gorgeous day up in my corner of the world and way too beautiful to be writing a blog post today. So I present you with the Friday Round-Up a list of blog posts this week from other bloggers that blew my mind. Perhaps if you need to kill some time or have a quiet moment you can check them out. http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/ Check out this cat, I have been a fan of his work forever. http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/ Good stuff here as well http://sweetersalt.com/ A Maine blogger who talks fashion and food…the best of both worlds http://paganchild-starmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-focused.html A new blog that offers words of wisdom for all of us. http://mscleaver.com/ Another Mainer who for Lent is giving up pants, she is also a crafty gal If you have any links to good blogs, feel free to leave em. It’s my hope to make the Friday Round Up a regular feature at my new home specifically I would live to shine some light and love on smaller bloggers. It’s hard out here in this blogosphere with so many good blogs to choose from and so little time so let’s help everyone get a slice of the pie. I will be back on Monday, at that time I will unveil some ideas I have around monetizing things but You May Also Like: No related posts.
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