Miscellaneous Ramblings

Starting over from scratch

July 17, 2011

ShareI clicked on something bad yesterday. One minute I was happily surfing along. Copying and pasting links into an email. Then all of a sudden: BOOM! Everything gone. OK. It wasn’t quite so sudden or dramatic. A brief glimpse of the ominous java-coffee-mug-o-death. Then just like in a real accident, everything seemed to slow down. [...]

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Fun and games

December 22, 2010

ShareJoe and I bought a Wii last week. And a TV. (The games are far more challenging and much less fun without one.) We played all weekend. When Monday came around, I had no interest in returning to work. No interest in planning for the new year. No interest in working on my new web [...]

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Yay! My first guest post!

October 7, 2010

ShareI am very excited this morning. Beth Buelow of the Introvert Entrepreneur has just published my first guest post. You can read it here: (NOT) hiding behind the introvert card Also…I just had this Homer Simpson moment of DOH! Because there are a couple other things I’ve forgotten to share with you. My latest Biznik [...]

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Sippy cups and ex-husbands

September 8, 2010

ShareThere is no educational or social redeeming content in this video whatsoever. Just me doing my damnedest to be funny. I delivered this at one of my new Toastmasters clubs. It’s a cross between a stand up comedy routine and an “icebreaker speech” (a Toastmasters speech project where you introduce yourself to the club.) The [...]

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Our wild escape from Mexico

May 6, 2010

ShareNo. I did not look down. Well, maybe a little. I’ve been on the road traveling for the past 2 weeks. My *intention* was to continue to journal and to write some blog posts on the road. My *reality* was…well…not that. There’s a whole other post about the loss of awareness that resulted from not [...]

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1500 KM later…we’re here…and no one died!

November 28, 2009

ShareAs I write this, Joe has Jimmy Buffet playing in the background. I’m clean (as in recently showered, not off drugs…I still need those). I’m sitting on our little porch, under a palm branch awning, listening to the birds (they’re singing along with Jimmy) – and typing this to you. For the next week, we’re [...]

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