Financial Insanity … and Hope
Financially, this has been the year from Hell in the Editormum household. I still have my full-time administrative assistant job, thank God, but the freelancing work fell off dramatically this year. (Note to my current clients: Thank you! I value each and every one of you in ways you cannot begin to guess.) I have […]
Trimming Down My Life
Well, I did it. I have successfully transferred posts and deleted almost all of my extraneous blogs. I’m down to eight, one of which is still being “liquidated.” When I finish it, I’ll have only seven. I think I had fourteen when I decided to cut back. I may decide to cut back further, if […]
Thinking About All That I Do….
One of my readers who uses my blog seeds to good advantage asked in a comment on one of the daily seeds if I ever got around to reading the plantings that were inspired by one or more of the seeds I offered. As I responded to the query, I was struck by how very […]
Mother’s Day Weekend for a Single Mom
Well, this was Mother’s Day weekend. So what did this single mom do? Not a lot by way of celebration. Yesterday (Saturday) we got up and had breakfast and then went outside. I weeded the “woodland garden” and the north fence-line, and then planted four o’clocks and mixed morning glory seeds that I sprouted on Thursday […]
I Hate Weekends
I know that sounds really insane, but I always seem to be more tired—no, more exhausted—on the weekends than during the work week. It’s not that I don’t work hard at my job; I do. But somehow it doesn’t generally drain my every physical, mental, and spiritual reserve like the weekends do. Probably I expect […]