Each year I make an uber list of my goals for the year. I don't always meet every goal, but I usually meet most of them. Not this year. This year I fell short on almost every goal I set for myself. I started well but didn't finish (strong or otherwise). Of the 13 goals … Continue reading 2016: A year in which I fell short
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It started with my boy. Nothing too disgusting. A high fever and achiness. When his fever remained high even while taking medication we consulted the pediatrician. The doctor said my son just needed to let the fever run its course. HeĀ also warned that this thing my boy had was going around and was highly contagious. … Continue reading Everyone else in my house has been sick
I wanted to write a blog post tonight, but I didn't have anything I wanted to write about. Luckily tonight is Blogapalooz-Hour. At 9 PM our dogged ChicagoNow Community Manager Jimmy gave us all a writing prompt, and we bloggers were challenged to write a post and publish it exactly one hour later at 10 PM. Perfect. The kids are already … Continue reading Jimmy, I hope you like this post more than I liked your writing prompt
Because I devote my October blog posts to Halloween,Ā anything else I think about writing during that time gets tabled until November, but since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election (Electoral College only, but sadly that's what counts) most of my existing blog post ideas seemĀ inappropriately frivolous compared to the impending threats to civil rights … Continue reading Donald Trump makes it hard to write about my ass
There are many unpleasant realities of the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. One is that yet again a qualified woman lost a job to a less qualified man. At least Hillary Clinton will not suffer the indignity of having to train and work for the man who took her job as so many … Continue reading At least Hillary won’t have to train the man who got her job (like I did)
Kim Z. Dale 