As a writer, I spend most of my waking time thinking about words, namely, how they sound and what they mean. What they mean to me versus what they mean to other people. I choose my words carefully and deliberately, lest I inadvertently offend, mislead, or otherwise alienate someone who reads them. And this is [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Riding without training wheels; this time, as an adult
The severance money is gone. All of it. Every single red cent. Gone. Kaput. It sustained me for nearly a year, allowed me to pay off my car, all of my insurances and debts, afforded my son a wonderful Christmas and birthday, a much needed trip to the beach, all of the clothes and supplies [...]
In celebration of self-employment
Ask anyone who has left (or was forced out of) corporate America and decided to work for themselves: being self-employed sure has its perks. You get to set your own hours, choose your clients, schedule your personal life around your work or vice-versa, or take your laptop to the nearest Starbucks, park, or lake and [...]
Lessons learned, in the meantime
I’m in that space. That place, cleverly described as “the lull,” by entrepreneur and blogger Allison Nazarian, as that time “after which came before but before what is next.” Like everyone on the planet, I’ve been in this space many times in my life. Like after I graduated from college and before I got my [...]
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