I’m on this e-mail list for HARO –Help a Reporter Out. A guy called Peter Shankman used to receive many requests from reporters and writers for sources for stories they were planning to writer. Shankman started compiling these requests in…
Category: Musings on Me
Trash, We Don’t Need No Stinking Trash!
In a previous post I listed my resolutions, mostly household-related because dude, I Am Not a Domestic Goddess. Aside from washing dishes and keeping laundry under control…as if this was even remotely possible, how will my family help others in…
Focus Friday: Living MY Best Life
Quite a few Facebook friends have been using the phrase “Living my Best Life” to describe their status. I am not sure if this is said tongue in cheek or not. I’m not a huge Oprah fan, but I know…
New Year’s Resolutions
I never did a New Year’s Resolution post. So, here it is… Wash dinner dishes at night instead of the next morning. Clean kitchen floor weekly. Continue my policy of not stacking papers everywhere. Open mail, purge, pay, file. Make…
Have You Had a Baby at the Alamo?
Found this somewhere…seriously with the time I spend on the PC and the amount of clicking around I do…who knows where I found it. Bold the things you’ve done and will admit to. If you use this as a post,…
Mom on the Run: 10 Things You Might Want To Know About Me
1. Mom to three children: Crafty Daughter, 12; Sporty Daughter, 10; and Adventure Boy, 5. Married to Coach Dad: a former high school English teacher and volleyball coach, now a school administrator. 2. In a previous life, I was a…
Hi, I’m Mom on the Run….
I’m adding this weight loss ticker here in the hopes that it acts as a motivation for me to exercise more often. With diet (another post needed for this topic) and exercise, I would like to get to my goal…
Bombay Peacock Grill, Columbia, MD: Roaches Are Not Okay.
I met a friend yesterday at Indian restaurant–Bombay Peacock Grill. I had not seen her since we both survived a hellatious graphics class in the spring. She is continuing in the graphic design program. I am evaluating my options. I…
What To Do When a Little Tikes Playhouse Crashes in to Your Kitchen Window
Our swingset was crushed by hail in 2005 (see above). It looked as though a giant stepped on the swingset. So, today it was light, then dark, then windy, then dark again, then light rain, the torrential, soak-to-the-bone rain, then…
Graphics Design Career Is Not For Me
This time last year I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life–a graphic designer. I enrolled in the graduate graphic design program at a local university. I spent an unbelievable amount on art supplies,…
