What I want to be when I grow up

February 9, 2010: Most likely to succeed
Comments: 14 | Categories: Grad School Days , This Mom thing , What I want to be when I grow up
Oh man you guys. I know I'm venturing into First World Problems Happening To Spoiled Has Everything She Could Ever Ask For Annoying Even SHE Can't Believe She's Writing About It Blogger territory here, but SERIOUSLY. I feel like every...

December 31, 2009: Seven Quick Resolutions
Comments: 6 | Categories: About Me , Too much going on , What I want to be when I grow up
1. I resolve to bake more. I love baking and baking took a decided hit in 2009. This should coincide with my next resolution which is 2. my resolution to NOT lose weight. I KNOW. I have many many thoughts...

November 9, 2009: What might have been
Comments: 11 | Categories: NaNoWriMo09 , Phillip , What I want to be when I grow up
One side effect of writing 27,000 words about teenagers in 9 days (SO FAR!) is that you spend an awful lot of time thinking about being a teenager. Not just any teenager, mind you, but the teenager you once were....

November 4, 2009: Gifts
Comments: 11 | Categories: Faith , What I want to be when I grow up
Ever since I went to that workshop a weekend or two ago I've been thinking more and more about where I put my energy. Especially these last few days when I've spent so many hours writing. It's only been four...

June 1, 2009: Aspirations
Comments: 9 | Categories: What I want to be when I grow up
I am reading Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird. I'm less than halfway through, but this book has already replaced Stephen King's On Writing as my favorite book about writing. Not that On Writing isn't good. It's excellent. Bird By Bird...

January 7, 2009: I also have my own bathroom. SCORE.
Comments: 12 | Categories: What I want to be when I grow up
Tonight we are doing grown up things. I am updating The Spreadsheet of Budgeting Awesomeness. Phillip is poring over thirty pages of mortgage refinancing documents. Guess who is sleeping? OH YES. I shall now wait while everyone knocks on the...

October 29, 2008: The volatility index
Comments: 5 | Categories: Life with two , What I want to be when I grow up
I have a new mental exercise going on lately. It's called: Squaring My SAHM Status with These Desperate Times. In other words, what am I doing carving pumpkins with my kids while my husband puts the more-expensive-than-it-used-to-be food on the...

October 12, 2007: Let me tell you about myself
Comments: 10 | Categories: About Me , What I want to be when I grow up
In the course of investigating this freelancing stuff and seeing what kind of writing is out there, I've become rather demoralized and depressed. There is no way I can write for publication. Am I kidding myself? After reading a most...

October 6, 2007: Woman's work
Comments: 11 | Categories: What I want to be when I grow up
I've never been career-oriented. My only goal for post-college employment was to work until I had enough money for another jaunt across Europe. As long as I could pay for cable and wine in the meantime, I was set. Getting...

September 25, 2007: I think I could go / Deep as the sea of Yoko
Comments: 7 | Categories: About Me , Tending to the prince , What I want to be when I grow up
The opening line of one of my favorite Dar Williams songs goes, "The first part of every day for me is good." (My favorite Dar Williams song starts with, "I wonder if Yoko Ono/Ever thought of staying solo". Which, in...

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