100 Things I Learned in 2009, Part 2
Wherein I (once again) attempt to show that one is never too old—or middle-aged, anyway—to learn. Or spout off about it. Part 1 here, in case you missed it. xxx c Making something short takes a long,...
View ArticleFrrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #10
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web during the week here, but which I post on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by...
View ArticleDerailment, deconstructed
1. Launch writing program to begin rewriting work for the day. 2. Work on rewrite for 10 minutes. Hit snag, and decide I need grounding exercise writing buddy created for me last week when I hit...
View Article100 Things I Learned in 2010, Part 1
If SXSW were smart, they'd license this for a big-ass ad I know that normal people marvel over how fast time flies when they see Rite Aid putting out the holiday tchotchkes in July or read stories of...
View Article100 Things I Learned in 2010, Part 2
The chin! The chin! This year didn’t kick my ass so much as it snuck up behind me, whispered in my ear it would kill me if I made so much as a wrong move, and slipped off into the night before I could...
View Article100 Things I Learned in 2011, Part 1
It was an olé kinda year I, for one, am flummoxed. Also, baffled, perplexed, confounded, and generally mystified. No sooner do I finish off my list of 100 things for 2010 than I’m sitting down to do...
View Article100 Things I Learned in 2011, Part 2 [50-for-50 edition]
You know what you learn when you do a review of the back half of a year in which you did a massive, 50-day-long fundraising thing-a-majiggy? That it takes WAY MORE than the actual 50 days to do it....
View Article51 Things I Learned in 2012
This year has been longest I can recall in the decades since they started flying by. It has challenged me in ways I could not have predicted even twelve months ago, when I foolishly thought I’d mapped...
View Article52 Things I Learned in 2013
it’s the little things Did I say that 2012 was a doozy? From that long-ago year’s relatively cushy vantage point, I quite literally did not know the half of it. This was the year that the other shoe...
View Article53 Things I Learned in 2014
An entire year with nary a post save one, at the very end? O, how the bright-eyed girl of 43 who was posting multiple times per day in 2004 would have laughed had you told her this! Without further...
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