December 31, 2010

New Year’s Quiz 2010

This is my second New Year’s Quiz. Here is 2008. Here is 2009. Thank you, again, to Linda from All & Sundry for the inspiration.

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?

I went on a business trip by myself. I’d been on one distance work trip before, in [...]

September 8, 2010

Bloggers at Work

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 [...]

October 26, 2009

gonads and strife

Sometimes we oversimplify the experiences we have online. We oversimplify the relationships we have. We oversimplify conflict as Drama! Jealousy! Judgment!

But the emotions we feel toward each other are real. And the dynamics and politics that go on between bloggers? Those are real too. As real as workplace dynamics, as the dynamics in [...]