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I’m officially FUCT (like it? I just thought of it)-a freelance, urban, cat-owning thirty-something.*

Yes, going full-frontal freelance, instead of just dabbling as I have over the years (since the first dot-com boom left me gobsmackingly underemployed and staring down the ( Read more... )

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This all interestingly dovetails with my last post…on March 15 (really? I am that lazy a blogger, apparently).

During my stay at Hedgebrook (post on that TK, I swear), I had the pleasure of being in residence with a group of amazingly rad writers, most of whom were working in ( Read more... )

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I haven’t been updating this much-neither because I’ve forgotten it nor for lack of things going on in life, but mostly because this year has turned into a year of mysteriously rapid personal growth for me. It’s lovely, because in many, many ways, I’ve been stuck in a rut ( Read more... )

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I was staring out the bus window this afternoon, staring harder than usual. I’d forgotten my earphones, so I was trying to drown out the cacophony of naked humanity-Seattle’s bus system can be, let’s politely say, gritty and colorful, especially on an unseasonably warm ( Read more... )

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“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” -George Sand

Why can’t I learn this lesson once, instead of once a month?

What lessons do you learn over and over again?

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Now that the glow of the holidays is starting to blow away like so much marine fog, and the tins and tins of holiday cookies are making me fatter and malnourished, it’s time to start cooking again.

My last post on this topic urged y’all to learn to or start cooking yourself. ( Read more... )

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Happy holidays, everyone. I hope this day finds you surrounded by people you love with easily-cured heartburn caused by delicious food.

I didn’t do a holiday letter this year. I meant to. Consider this my holiday letter to all of you.

This year was a year filled with ( Read more... )

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Following up on my first set of personal tips and advice on saving money in a brutally dismal economy-which, for the artsy types that avoid 9-5, may last longer than the rest of y’all-is my spiel on saving money on food/grocery bills (which was the most requested topic via ( Read more... )

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All around me, the economy is showing. Friends and family are eating up their savings cushions. Writers and editors I know are in low level panic. Etc. Etc.

I was laid off from my last full time gig two months ago, but really, I haven’t worked a day job with any regularity ( Read more... )

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Last week was International Blog Against Racism Week, and there were lots of great posts going up all over.
I started writing this last week as part of the IBARW, but then my week got away from me-in some good and related ways, including attending the final party of the 2009 ( Read more... )