(Beyond the home) Work & Career
An Iterative Process & Spring Breakthroughs
April 25, 2012
Damien and I move forward in our life goals through an iterative process. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's geek speak for the cyclical process of refining an idea, with each refinement (or repetition) getting you closer to the desired goal. What this means practically is that ...
Writing a Personal Mission Statement ~ A Roadmap for the Journey
April 11, 2012
What I wanted to define was a roadmap for me - an established homemaker, mother and wife. A woman who loves her family and has chosen a first career in serving them but is now ready to branch out, to bloom in other areas. A woman who is ready to ...
Hello April, Please Be Kind
April 4, 2012
I have debated for days whether I should write this post. Every time I sit down to write I have at least ten ideas on the go vying for my attention. So if I take the time to write about how difficult the month of March was those other ideas ...
There Are No Formulas
March 26, 2012
This weekend Damien spent some time poring over maps and the Internet, starting to think about our summer adventures. He came to the conclusion that we are going to have to blaze our own trail a bit this summer, in terms of backpacking trips in the peninsula. And so it ...
Return To Center
March 23, 2012
Everybody has their individual practices that ground them and bring their focus back to those most important things in life. Yesterday I needed to reconnect with mine. I needed to come back to center. (I do love this phrase from the yoga world, though I don't practice yoga.) Computers are ...
Working From Gifts & Passions ~ Finding My Way
February 11, 2012
A couple weeks ago one of you (the line between reader and friend is happily blurring) sent me a link to the most amazing interview. At least, it's the most amazing interview I've listened to for a long time. Krista Tippett, who broadcasts with American Public Media spoke with Irish ...
If You're Happy and You Know It
February 2, 2012
The snow crunched under the tires as I pulled into the library parking lot. At 4:00 pm the sun was still (!) well above the horizon, shining on the bay. Seeing the mounds of snow, shoved high by the snowplows with each successive storm this winter, Laurent eagerly asked if ...
