Conversations with My Mom, On Her Self-Styled Life (Part 1)
My Mom is awesome. She is a constant example to me as I try to create my own self-styled life—such a strong example, in fact, that I feel her story […]
Follow up to Freshly Pressed “Procrastination…”
At about 11:30 am on Thursday, I was shocked to see my inbox overflowing with emails from WordPress. “No way!” I thought. Freshly Pressed! I was jumping up and down […]
Procrastination, Productivity… Progress?
Hi, my name is Jean, and I am a procrastinator. In sophomore year of my undergrad, my roommates chased me down the hall as I literally ran away from a […]
Reminder from a Self-Styled Farmer
I was listening to “On Point” yesterday on NPR and heard an interview with Kurt Timmermeister, author of “Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live off the Land.” Kurt, […]
Job Searching
As the job/career paradox plays me like I’m the shuttlecock in badminton, I’ve been job searching for about 14 months now. The Job Search: a big, black monster that whispers […]
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