Last night I went out for pizza at UNION, a fantastic restaurant in my town of Evanston, Illinois. It’s known for bringing the community together.
There was an outdoor concert in full swing nearby, so finding a seat in the beer garden was pretty hard to do.
A woman apparently…
I’m really, REALLY fed up from spending hours upon hours writing posts that get little to no engagement and/or earn next to nothing.
And so, what happens if I just crank out content from the gut, thereby liberating myself from the soul-sucking vortex of pouring my heart into overwritten posts…
“Are you watching the news?”
It’s my mother calling, and she never reaches out at this time of day. She knows I’m juggling the morning madness of nursing a baby and getting a three-year-old ready for preschool.
“I’m … um, no, I’m not watching TV right now—what’s going on?” As…
At the end of February 2020, just as word began to spread about a global pandemic, I was already isolating, cocooned in my home following major abdominal surgery. And so, when the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders came down the pike in March that year, I barely blinked.
In the months prior…
Can you earn a living as a freelancer? Hell yes, you can, and I’m living proof. …
I do a doubletake when I see the social media post: “I Stand For Medical Freedom” and “#StopTheMandate”. This post is from a firefighter in Washington State—and he happens to be a dear, family friend. He’s a front-line worker who’s opposed to the vaccine. How is this even possible?
I…
My father’s 76th birthday would have been June 29, 2021, but we didn’t celebrate it.
He passed away of esophageal cancer in 2010, more than 10 years ago. And if that’s all you knew, you’d be right to assume that the day might have been one filled with wistful remembrances…
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Two months ago, while driving on the highway, I spied an SUV five cars ahead, weaving erratically through the moderately heavy traffic. Immediately, I sensed the vehicle would crash. Ten minutes later, right in front of us, it did.
And it was in these minutes of hypervigilance — driving 75…
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