I’ve worked with a bunch of different direct sales/network marketing/social selling/whatever-the-heck-you-want-to-call-them companies over the past ten or fifteen years. The first company I joined was Southern Living. I don’t know if they still exist, but it was cookbooks and cooking stuff and Gail Pittman pottery and dishes. I didn’t love most of the stuff and […]
Lessons I've Learned
Boarding School
About four-and-a-half years ago I was at a swim meet with Kristofer and Ingrid at MIT. There were a bunch of teams there from Massachusetts and New York and Connecticut. As luck would have it, my college roommate and swim teammate (who lives on Nantucket) was at the meet with her son (who is the […]
Does Your Heart Break A Little?
Last summer was one of the most physically and emotionally exhausting summers of my life. It was grueling, actually. I could list all the reasons why, but those details don’t really matter, because I don’t need to justify what’s grueling to me. I don’t need to prove to anyone why it was hard. It was […]
I guess I’ve come full circle.
My oldest son, Kristofer, was a pretty shy kid. He spent his only year of preschool being a lurker in the background. His teachers were a little concerned that he never spoke in class. Like literally never. He was the same in kindergarten and first grade. Very quiet, very shy, and very easily intimidated. He […]
That Time I Lost My Dog (And What To Do If You Lose Yours)
If you’ve been around a while you know we got a dog back in September. She was a rescue from Texas (we live in Connecticut), and she was from a litter of eleven puppies called the Avenger litter. She was named Storm, and we kept her name and Storm eventually morphed into Stormie. Here’s the […]
You worked hard for this, Mom.
The kids are with their father this weekend. We live about three miles away from each other. This weekend it’s hot and sunny in CT after a long stretch of sorta crappy weather. Soccer ended last weekend, and there are no swim meets this weekend. I have two days all to myself. No obligations. No […]