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I’ve read a lot of well-intentioned articles, blogs, and tip sheets the past few however-long-this-thing has been (days? weeks? months? eons? WHO KNOWS?) regarding How To Work From Home(™). Most of them were written pre-pandemic and were only semi-helpful then, 87% of them don’t include trying to work with kids in the equation and so… Continue reading How to Work from Home with Kids (but really)

Set your alarm for your normal time and then snooze it for 2 hours. Finally get up because your cat and/or dog and/or child needs to be fed or something.  Get dressed in real clothes, by real clothes I mean your activewear so you can work out before you log on.  Stare at your workout… Continue reading How to Work from Home

Today is my 20th wedding anniversary. When people find out how long i’ve been married they usually have one of 2 reactions: 1) YIKES okay child bride or 2) WOW you are so lucky - what’s your secret?  News flash, succeeding in marriage without really trying, is not a thing that exists. If you saw… Continue reading How to Succeed in Marriage (Without Really Trying)

Many years ago, My then boyfriend liked to tell this story on his mom. He was in middle school, maybe 12 or 13 and he had been sent to the office for some fuckery he had propagated, and they had to call his mom to come get him. So he’s sitting in the office and… Continue reading By any other name

If you've known me for any length of time, you know that I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I have watched countless hours of every series and am on my 4th full, start-to-finish, no skipsies, not even the Beverly effes a ghost episode or "Masks", watch-though of TNG. I own not one, not two, not… Continue reading Tilly’s Tummy

Pardon me good sir, madam, or enby - please brace thyself for a rant Today I went to 3 different shops, a boutique, a big box store, and an outlet. In each shop, I ended up with at least one item from the "straight size" section and tried on the largest size they offered, and at… Continue reading Rant in d minor

Oh dang, did you get snowed by a narcissist or BPD boss? It happens to the best of us. In fact - compassionate and empathetic people are MORE likely to get taken in by an abuser with a personality disorder. Sometimes the toxic behavior patterns are evident right off the bat - if you have… Continue reading How to Survive an Abusive Boss

When I was 10 years old, I was obsessed with Stephen King books and movies, things I was decidedly not allowed to read or watch. (Pro parenting tip - want to build a reader? Tell your kid she can’t read something, your tenacious little one will realize that she can pull the hardback books off… Continue reading I did it all for the Crusher – a fandom story