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Your Best Advice
What’s on the iPod: Ships with Holes Will Sink by We Were Promised Jetpacks Last week I had a nice conversation with a friend of a relative. She was about to say goodbye to her full-time job and wanted to hear about my experiences with freelancing. This is a person with a solid background in…
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Self-sabotage
What I’m reading: The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (a book to savor)What’s on the iPod: Sunshine by The Clarks Busy weekend. If you looked around the house, you wouldn’t think I did a thing, but if you opened my closet – voila! I cleaned, organized, and hauled away two bags of clothes and purses. Now…
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Worthy Tip: Write This, Not That
What I’m reading: The Devil’s Tour by Mary KarrWhat’s on the iPod: Keep Yourself Warm by Frightened Rabbit Men’s Health Editor-in-chief David Zinczenko impresses me. He’s made a lucrative career out of showing us healthier food options in his popular Eat This, Not That series. I’m a fan of both his suggestions and his style….
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The Best Unnoticed Blogs
What I’m reading: Late Wife by Claudia EmersonWhat’s on the iPod: Keep Yourself Warm by Frightened Rabbit Once upon a time, I was named to a Top Blog list. It was when Maria Schneider was heading the Writer’s Digest blog, and she called this blog “the little black dress” of blogs. I was over the…
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Turning Over Rocks
What’s on the iPod: Alleluia by Rufus Wainwright Finally over that cold that grabbed hold of me last week. It was a strangely short-lived one – three days and vanished. There are remnants of it, but not the usual symptoms of stuffiness, sore throat, aching, etc. I was feeling better by Wednesday. I like that…
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Change the Things You Can Change
What I’m reading downstairs: The Maytrees by Annie DillardWhat’s on the iPod: Late in the Evening by Paul Simon Yesterday we talked about reasons to part ways with clients – and frankly, they have similar reasons, I’m sure. It’s all about meeting each others’ needs. And while it’s sometimes wise to walk away from a…
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Hanging on to Dead Wood
What I’m reading upstairs: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisWhat’s on the iPod: Quiet Little Voices by We Were Promised Jetpacks Sitting idle the last week gave me some time to get much-needed website work done, and get some invoicing out of the way. Also, it gave me time to re-evaluate. In looking…
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Driving Traffic the Organic Way
What I’m reading: The Maytrees by Annie DillardWhat’s on the iPod: Restless by Chris Bathgate Another slow day yesterday, but I’m making hay with it. I met another freelancer for lunch and we enjoyed swapping not so much work stories, but life stories. Those are infinitely more interesting, and you get to see the layers…
