Archive for August, 2009

Today is my daughter’s birthday. She’s 7 years old. Something is different about her birthday this year – something that’s never happened in the 7 years she’s now been alive. I haven’t seen her or kissed her sweet little face today. Why? Because she’s with her dad.
Her dad and I divorced a couple of years [...]

Hey you, sitting there on your computer with that blank stare… Are you looking on Monster.com again? Still unemployed? Feeling sorry for yourself right about now, too, huh?
Well STOP IT! I mean it. Right this instant, right now, cut it out. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and think about what you CAN do. You’ve no [...]

With so many ways to communicate, network and receive information these days it’s easy to forget how  to interact with people one on one. In fact, it seems too many people on Twitter have forgotten the purpose. Facebook, too.
I have a limited amount of time for my social media outlets these days; far less probably, [...]

In 1984, when the movie Sixteen Candles was released, I was 13 years old. It was a movie that I watched over and over, able to identify with the main character “Sam” in many ways even though my life was much different. I was the geeky girl with the embarrassing family, who never thought a [...]