A friend sent me an email a few days ago to let me know her mother had passed away. My friend and I had worked together for my last employer, but she had resigned first. She had been offered the opportunity to work at home for a state-wide mental health advocacy program.
We have kept in [...]
Archive for March, 2005
When a Door is Closed
Posted in Work on March 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The Price of Integrity
Posted in Work on March 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was offered a job on Friday, but yesterday I declined. I would have been working from home with a monthly stipend. The work would have been fairly easy, and I would have received additional training, though I am the most trained in the area. The catch was that it would have been for my [...]
Further Adventures in Job Searching
Posted in Work on March 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
My ankle is nearly better. I have rested it (some) and spent time reading (a lot). Today, I actually went out. I had a second interview with a company I had seen two weeks ago.
They finally got all my references and wanted to talk to me about their benefits and the salary. I was anxious [...]
To Work or Create, part 2
Posted in Work on March 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have read in an earlier blog, I had another job interview today. But I am still thinking about web design. It is calling to me, and it is getting less subtle.
Late Monday afternoon, in desperation after a day stuck in bed because of my ankle, I hobbled to my bathroom, and crawled [...]
Laid Up
Posted in Personal on March 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This is not what I intend to write about today, but I have had an unexpected event in my life. I fell and am now stuck with crutches and bed rest.
It amazes me how a day with such potential can become one of the worst in one’s life. It started out with two pretty cool [...]
Self Reflection
Posted in Personal on March 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago, and no I don’t want to discuss how many, I took several psychology courses in college. At the time, I wanted to be a genetic counselor. I wanted to help pregnant couples know more about the child they were carrying and how their genetic traits would be passed on. This meant a [...]
Life of Ducks, 2
Posted in Nature, tagged Ducks on March 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Marilyn and Monroe are not the only ducks who choose our yard as their spring vacation spot. Two others, whom I named Larry and Lily, are also frequent visitors.
Larry is a more vocal duck. He quacks a lot, nearly continually. Not all his quacks are loud, in fact it more sounds like grumbling than quacking [...]
The Fifth Duck
Posted in Nature, tagged Ducks on March 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ducks are odd. Their shape is odd; their voices are odd. Who could ever love that billed face? Other ducks obviously do, in their own way.If you’ve read my other entries about ducks, you’ll remember my fondness for their awkward little selves and that I had taken time to become very familiar with four of [...]
To Work or to Create
Posted in Work on March 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
To Work or to Create
I do hate making choices. To be more accurate, it is not making the choices that bothers me, it is acting on them. Several years ago, I wanted to start creating websites for profit. I had made a few sites and they had gone over quite well, but I didn’t have [...]
Life of Ducks
Posted in Nature, tagged Ducks on March 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Living on the coast, we have a good number of migratory birds pass through our area. I had the pleasure of getting to know four of them starting in the spring of 2001.It began one morning, as I sat on the front porch with my coffee and my laptop. I saw two mallards fly down [...]
