I bitched and moaned so much about being sick that my good friend PT-LawMom sent me a gorgeous bouquet. She has had so much going on of her own – I am so not worthy. I am, however, very very grateful. Winter up here is a horrid monochromatic mess, and there is so much snow [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Friends don’t let friends get depressed
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You can’t cuddle a box
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rain Dog tells me that when it comes to the computer, I am Scrat. Yeah, I guess he can afford to make snarky comments when he has been upstairs NAPPING ALL DAY and so has not been able to ponder that the reason I am so attached to my keyboard is that it is the ONLY [...]
There’s always something
Posted in The freelance life on February 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The last few months, I have been sorely tempted to offer all kinds of excuses to one of my clients for not turning his stuff around as fast as he wants it. I did offer one: deadlines on more pressing work. But the rest of it? Although just as legitimate, clients, like bosses, can only [...]
New blog
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I can’t remember if I mentioned that I would be blogging for another startup site this year. I think I did, because I seem to remember mentioning that it was an opportunity remarkably like the one I had with Disney. However, these folks are less corporate, and also local. Additionally, I’ll be writing articles for [...]
A Valentine’s Day short story special
Posted in Fiction on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yes, it’s a day late. Give me a break, OK? Our house lost power yesterday. But Patti and Aldo are very forgiving, and said I should reprint this story from Flashing in the Gutters. Enjoy:
Beautiful Trouble
Denny loved Leann best when she went looking for trouble. She’d fling her honey-brown hair back off her shoulders, narrow [...]
Book review: The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here
Posted in Book reviews, MotherTalk on February 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The popular-media image of the mother-daughter relationship is, generally, a yin and yang of deeply personal conflict and everlasting love. We’re told that we drive each other mutually crazy–but that our love trumps all. The uncomfortable truth–that this is not always so–seems to escape most women’s media. That’s why Felicia Sullivan’s memoir, The Sky Isn’t Visible [...]
Moving
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been trying to get to this for weeks, and now is as good a time as any…
The blog is moving! Thanks to Creative Construction, I’ve been able to work with a CMS that I like a lot better. So, sometime in the next week (or maybe two), I’ll be moving to this address:
http://freelancemother.wordpress.com/
And will [...]
Super Tuesday
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I support Barack Obama, and here’s why:
“We let in the serpents and liars, we exchanged shining ideals for a handful of nails and some two-by-fours, and we did it by resorting to the simplest, deepest-seated and readiest method we possess as human beings for trying to make sense of the world: through our fear. America [...]
Deadline rebellion
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With a major project due in two days, clients demanding I put their work first, and my new blog in need of some startup posts, I woke up Wednesday with a plan: take as much time as I could to do whatever the boys needed.
See, in the past, I’ve had a hard time with balance. [...]
