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essays in downshift
Of all the things I could be writing here, what I should be writing more of is words on the process of shifting careers. I’m practically overflowing with experience in that lately. *sigh* It’s funny, actually. I am sitting here in the sun of a cafe patio sipping my morning coffee and staring blankly at
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what’s in a name
I have been inching towards some contracting work. Of course, nothing is ever guaranteed and in many ways I’m five steps ahead of myself here, but ultimately, all things being equal, my end game in this adventure is to start doing this kind of thing on the regular and actually get paid for it. I’ve
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patio season
It is only just the second day of May and I find myself sitting on the patio at the local Starbucks. Yeah, I know. There is a likely chance that you are reading this from somewhere in the world where (a) patio season in May is entirely normal and (b) eighteen degrees would not be
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big fishing it
I quit my job yesterday. That sounds overly dramatic. But it is true. I have been working a part time gig at a little local retail grocery store, off and on, for the last nine months. Karin spotted the advertising along the side of the road last summer, and we followed the progress of the