I remember an argument I had with my mom during my freshman year of college. She had been cleaning out my room (I went 4 hours away for college, and, consequently, stayed down here after graduating) and she found 4 packs of thank-you cards… that she had bought for me to send out after my graduation [...]
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Confession time! I am one of the most disorganized people on the face of the earth. My desk is always cluttered with papers, books, a dish or two, whatever you can imagine, it’s probably on my desk. See? Well, try to see. The sun coming through my window makes it a bit difficult to see. [...]
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I’ve shared on here before that I work with students on a volunteer basis. I love working with teenagers, except when there’s drama. Drama makes me want to put my head through a wall. It hurts everyone involved, can tear apart groups of friends, and make kids cry, a lot. More than once. I’ve had [...]
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I’m rarely in the mood to just do a full brain dump. My ideas come to me while I’m performing some type of manual labor (see house cleaning) or driving the long commute to and from the Current TV offices. I tend to come up with some doozies while driving especially, and while many are [...]
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When I was 16, my first real job was as the gal who answered the ‘dedication line’ at our local radio station. Of course, ‘over-achiever me’ made it on the air as a regular DJ in only a few short weeks, but I remember those days well because that’s when I picked up the [...]
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In 2005, when I started this blog, I soon found that living the life of a blogger meant organizing my thoughts in a coherent fashion. At the time, I was running a consulting business, volunteering at Church, raising 4 children under age 7, running a household, and teaching pilates, in addition to blogging. Of course, [...]
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At work, we do these status reports and they’ve been helpful keeping everyone briefed in a large org w/o wasting time. I’ve been doing them w/my kids in the afternoons on the way home from school. Their feedback was that we needed another section for complaints. Grace listed several complaints and I had to keep [...]
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