Professionals and people of all stripes struggle with this thing called "life/work balance." But that "balance" thing gets hairier when you're the sole breadwinner in a household where other people are depending on you. So, how do you deal with the interruptions to...

A second (or third) career as a writer - how? You and I both know that choosing to "re-invent" oneself as a writer isn't easy. The journey is filled with lots of dead-ends, circuitous routes, delays, an overabundance of information, and an apparent lack of specific...

Testing never dies. Until we tell it to.

The last one. Finally. There's a reason I should have "Under Construction" pinned to the home page on this website. A really good reason. Want to guess what it is? (j/k)

We're almost to the end of the placeholders. Thankfully!

For a little more fun, we're seeing just how far this theme will take us. It has a lot more capacity than I'm used to - and that's great. It's just a LOT more decisions to make, too.

Looking at placeholders is boring, no question. The good news is that these aren't here forever. Just long enough to deal with design issues for a design newbie, and then we'll on get on with life. Some writers are great at design. I'm going to need to learn it. No...

This is a placeholder to test what is happening with the theme. It will be replaced by *real* content by about mid-September. Stay tuned.

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