Coming Up Next…
These are the posts I’m working on:
The Benefits & Perils of a Transparent Site
2009: My Year in Status Updates
Personal Crowdsourcing
Gratitude
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
-Thornton Wilder
Most of us like to think of ourselves as people who [...]
Necessary Narcissism
I’ve been a professional writer for the better part of 23 years, which is both an achievement and a gift. Writing is my passion, my purpose and my most marketable skill. I scale it across numerous industries, from entertainment to real estate marketing. Sometimes I thrive, and other times I struggle to stay afloat…
How Twitter Makes My Yuletide Bright
It’s been more than two decades since my sisters and I all spent Christmas under the same roof and five years since I’ve had anyone to share an ‘orphan Christmas’ [...]
All I Want for Christmas…
My backstory, Cliff Notes version: two weeks’ recovery after surgery in September snowballed into three months of near-unemployment. I’ve been feeling increasingly despairing over the past few weeks, with most [...]
Debt and Humiliation
Well, this is certainly not how I wanted to start my blog. I wanted to start with something incredibly insightful and useful, something that said, “This woman has interesting things [...]
Site Undergoing Creation
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
-Charles [...]
Glass Woman Prize
A few months ago, I entered my first writing contest since winning Absolute Write’s Idol title in 2005. I chose one without an entry fee (thanks to Hope Clark’s awesome [...]