"Tie my shoe!" my older sister would yell pointing down to her high-top sneakers. Like clockwork, my friends would kneel down and tie her shoe like it was what they were born to do.

Other times, my sister would push things a little further. She would insist a friend try some "great… Read full post »

It has occurred to me, now that I'm forty, give or take a year or two, that I may be able to give some advice to the younger generation on how not to live their life. Looking back, I've had some good experience on things not to do when:

1.… Read full post »

I started a temporary job as a tech writer about a month ago. After being self-employed for the past seven years, it's been interesting getting back into an "8 to 5" schedule. I enjoy the professionalism of it; the data gathering, delvi… Read full post »

I haven't paid much attention to Rush Limbaugh in the past, because I chose not to listen to his daily rants. I had heard on the news that he had an addiction to prescription pills and I've occasionally heard references to his comments regarding politics.

To me, his attempts at being… Read full post »

After resigning from my corporate job in 1999, most people understood my need to explore the world outside my cubicle. I was thirty years old and had been working since the age of twelve. I had babysat and cleaned houses. I worked at a video store and a church … Read full post »

"Hi Donna! Jack, here! I got a call from that lineage organization....They told me I was approved, but some of their paperwork got lost. You wouldn't happen to have all those documents would you?"

"Of course!" I told my current client whom I absolutely adore. He is down-… Read full post »

We were all sitting at my grandmother's dining room table. My big brother and two older sisters, my dad, his mom, my uncle and his children, and a few of my grandmother's closest friends all dressed a bit formally. It sounds cliche', but my grandmother was the Martha Stewart of her… Read full post »

As a forty-something wife and mother, I have tried many careers over the years searching for that perfect job that would work well with my family. I was on an endless hunt for something that would allow me to have a good balance in my life and make me happy. During that time,… Read full post »

"Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions." Description of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

Kate Cho… Read full post »

Dad came back into my life about a year after my daughter was born. He had been through more than any person should ever have to endure by the time he was in his thirties, so when I got a letter from my step-mom announcing their retirement, I didn't hold a… Read full post »