the strength of ten

I just spent the last three hours — yes, three — writing and rewriting a cover letter. It’s true, I’m finally admitting that freelancing just isn’t cutting it financially. I’m still looking for more freelance work, but at the same time I’ve had my eye out for full time work as well. And I found [...]

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the thief of time

I’ve been meaning to start on my novel for over two years. (Yes, everyone has a novel or screenplay or Taj Mahal in the works, I know. But this is my Very Ambitious Project so I get to write about it here. On my Considerably Less Ambitious Blog.) I have a very pretty good sense [...]

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the superlative degree of comparison

Shriekeuse awoke Sunday morning earlier than Moses, shaking and muttering about paint coming alive, and when I worriedly poked her with my finger, sizzled audibly. By Monday she was still feverish and hallucinating so in to the doctor we went. Turns out she’s got some kind of infection and pending test results has been ordered [...]

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bold as brass

Last week the kerfuffle surrounding Momdot’s PR Blackout Challenge unfolded across the mommyblogger metaverse like so many pop-up tents in a hurricane. Calling on mom bloggers to resist “the allure of giveaways, reviews, and blog trips,” for one week in August, the challenge urged bloggers to return to “naked, raw” blog posts about family, [...]

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rolled upon by the lonely feelings

If April is the cruelest month, then June is just one big, unforgiving clusterfuck. I won’t whine too much here, because it’s over and we survived and really, how fascinating can delayed flights and illness and rain actually be anyway? When we perish of the swine flu which I am certain has plagued us lo [...]

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thinky thots thursday

This week’s thinky thots will deviate slightly from the usual format: instead of free-associated silliness from my children (whom I’ve been ashamedly too busy to really listen to, and to whom I’ve “mmm-hmmmed” distractedly when they – for all I know – told me they’d built a time machine in the attic or flushed the [...]

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keep me always at it

What could be more tedious than housework? Reading about housework, of course. Or so I thought, until I kept finding myself rammed halfway through posts scattered around the intertubes, all strangely devoted to domestic duties (hi DoctorMama and the modernity ward!) and actually rather intrigued by it all.
Housework is one of those rare topics that [...]

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as circles do in water

It’s been that kind of day. A couple of freelance opportunities rejected, another couple came back with painful and time-consuming revisions, the doctor found a lump in my breast. I’ve been wading through the thick dreariness of it, doing laundry and sending emails, trying not to think of our bank account hovering just above zero [...]

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the swift river ran

I’m on a double deadline, and little Shriekeur has been home sick all week, sending the productivity bar chart into a severe nosedive, so much so that my husband came home a couple hours early today to relieve me of Puke Duty. I’ve shuttered myself at my desk the last few hours but even with [...]

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blanket statement

Yesterday marked beginning of a new work-at-home era for me: I increased my son’s time at nursery school from three mornings a week to three longer days a week (morning until 3pm) plus one morning. I amazed myself with my own hyper-productivity! I was able to run out-of-town errands and not worry about being late [...]

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