Category Writing
Crashing Burnout
Interviews are stress bombs. You hunger for the opportunity to nab one. You prepare for hours, days to do well on one. On the day of, you feel a pit in your stomach. What will they ask? What will I say? Am I desperate? Overeager? Overqualified, under qualified? And when it ends, you stress even […]
This Job’s a Scam
I’ve been looking since November for a job, and even more so after my last day at the end of January. I’ve never lost hope that perhaps the right opportunity would come along. After attending webinars about how to update my resume and cover letter so that AI can read it, creating a list of […]
My Friend, AI
She looks pretty cool, doesn’t she? That’s my new friend, AI-mie, the newly-generated woman that the WordPress image generator drew up for me. She totally looks like she has it going on, in a somewhat decaying urban setting. Ready for action, AI-mie will jump into any fray, with a cool head and a thirst for […]
Tacking On Another Year
Another year has flown the coop, and I feel like a bird with clipped wings. Although I feel great and still can pass for looking pretty good, I’m not sure about the road ahead. This is the time when most people my age start planning their retirement. I’m in the unenviable position of never being […]
Not This Again…
The writing was on the wall, but I was so busy that I didn’t notice until it was too late. My boss and I had quite a conversation on our weekly meetup call. We both work remotely, so every Monday we’d have a half-hour talk about tackling the projects I’d been assigned. On this particular […]
The Perils of New Technology
I love Macs. I’ve had one since forever. They’re expensive, sure. But my last one lasted ten years and is still going. As a birthday present, I bought myself a brand new one. Above is the actual box it came in. Such a deal! There was a special President’s Day Weekend sale – $100 off […]
The Jitters, Or, The Nightmares Cometh
It happens every now and again. Sometimes I have a bad day at work. Or a mistake I made that I can’t let go. Something’s looming on the horizon and I obsess about it. Or my brain simply won’t shut up, no matter what I do or try not to dwell upon. It’s a case […]
Wrestling With Words and Other Writing Conundrums
It all seemed so wonderful, this writers conference. None of us had been out amongst fellow writers and friends for what seemed like forever. Our last conference was cancelled (I’m sure I don’t have to tell you why). Omicron wasn’t even anything beyond a letter in the Greek alphabet. We were all vaxxed, masked and […]
Success
Because I’ll take any excuse to whip up some pancakes and sausages, I invited two of my friends over for brunch. I know, that’s pretty said, but then again, you can’t beat pumpkin pancakes with link breakfast sausage on a chilly October morning. That, and I hadn’t seen Chelsea and Connie in ages. Well before […]
Confessions of A Middle-Age Woman 