This one. My almost birthday twin. The dear daughter of a friend that I still miss so very, very much.
Grateful for: 11/2
The bright blue cloudless skies of spring and fall, that serve as the background for the pop of color produced by the trees.
Grateful for: 11/1
A job where ability and hard work is valued over smoke-and-mirror BS.
On Being an Old Mom: Disadvantages and Mitigation* Strategies
In this post, I discussed how I became an Old Mom. Now I’m going to take the bull by the horns, explain some disadvantages of being an older mom, and what you can do to deal with it. You’re Out
The Things You Discover While Cleaning Out the Hard Drive
When you start hunting through your archives, you run into the strange things you saved in 1998. I think this is my riff on another Beatles parody of”I’m a Loser” – http://refinish69.tripod.com/mywwjourney/id33.html I’m a loser I’m a loser And I’m
The Speed Dating Job Interview
While eating my oatmeal at Caribou this afternoon, I overheard the strangest job interview. The interviewer was pushing questions at the applicant in record time. I don’t think there was more than a second pause between the applicant’s response and
On Being an Old Mom: How I Got This Way
Of course, I just got older. But there’s more to the story than that. Two weeks before my 40th birthday, I was flying back to the U.S. after visiting my brother, SIL, and new nephew in Germany. As I flew
How to deal with a mansplainer starring Hillary Clinton in gifs
http://feministing.com/2013/01/24/how-to-deal-with-a-mansplainer-starring-hillary-clinton-in-gifs/
2012 In Review
A rundown of the Wall Family adventures for 2012 Chicago Carol Anne had a professional conference in May in Chicago, so the whole family took the train down and back. The NATO Summit was going on at the same time,