My friend’s daughter Sage is visiting us for the summer. She’s a week younger than my youngest daughter and they’re like sisters. Between all of our regular summer activities like going to the beach and the river, they’ve decided to start a business.
They made up flyers offering their services as dog walkers, car washers, yard [...]
I recently embarked on a large programming project that became the most frustrating, stressful thing I’ve done since I’ve been in business.
I won’t bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
With the deadline looming at the height of the crisis, I needed to call [...]
I used to have a really challenging job. It was stressful and demanding, high pressure and large responsibilities. I was really good at it too.
Then I became a parent.
In my old job, I was really good at delegating, training, developing and managing people….and rationalizing.
Oh, could I rationalize.
“I may have to work 60 or 70 [...]
Well, I bit the bullet yesterday and bought a new laptop. I decided on the Lenovo ThinkPad SL400. It looks like it has pretty much everything I was looking for. It’s also the top pick at PCWorld’s Top 10 All-Purpose Laptops. My goal is to use it exclusively for my business. I’m also getting [...]
I want to hug it. I want to give it a nice, big kiss….muah!
In a previous post, I told you how I lost my hard drive. Well, long story short it is unrecoverable. All my pictures of my kids since about 2002. All my music! Oh God my music! I’ve either printed out, scrapbooked or [...]
On Thursday my hubby lived a dream of playing baseball at AT&T park where the Giants play. Not because he’s a big Giants fan, but because it was totally cool to play on a major league ball field.
He plays in a men’s hardball league every Sunday and let me clue you in to how [...]
When I write, I often talk about where I live. The reason for that is because it is such a place of beauty, sometimes I can’t believe that I live here.
I was born and raised in Southern California and I loved it there, but once we had children we just felt that we wanted [...]
The picture above in my header is actually a picture of the Mendocino coast in Northern California where I live. My brother-in-law was here for a visit and offered to take me and my youngest daughter up in his plane. I was able to get a ton of awesome shots of this beautiful [...]
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