September 8, 2010
After six years working full time outside the home, I started working part time from home in the summer of 2008. I spent the other half the week developing marketing campaigns for a very small property management company downtown. When I went on maternity leave, they went out of business. Instead [...]
August 18, 2010
In the summer of 2005, when hurricane season began, I filled a big Tupperware container with batteries and flashlights and some canned goods and Band-Aids and whatever else I thought might help us in an unimaginably bad situation.
That August, my husband and I had only been in our first home for four months. [...]
August 9, 2010
I spent a lot of time on Twitter this weekend, using a hashtag to try to find friends. But most of the time I found them accidentally, a hand on a shoulder, a quick hug—another follow-up hug. Gushing breathless smiles. Quick waves and nods and holy shit there are a lot of people here.
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