I had been keeping in touch with an old colleague of mine and recently when I asked if she wanted to get together after work sometime, she replied, “After work? You don’t have an after work. You can do anything anytime. I’m not sure that our friendship can continue because I just don’t know how to react to you anymore. We’re not on the same wave length anymore. You’ve got freedom, time, no pressure. You’re happy and everything is easy …

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I’m not the kind of soul who generally sits around all day and waits for things to happen but over the past couple of years that’s what I did.
I secretly held the belief that someone would come and rescue me from my creative boredom. Someone would discover my talent and unleash it. Something would magically happen and I’d have all the creativity, passion, and excitement I wanted mysteriously given to me. Even though I had always worked for things and …

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It’s not just about the writing anymore.
I interviewed for the Docent Program at the Art Museum today. During the interview one of the two women looked at my application and said to me, “I see that you’re a freelance writer, tell us a little about that.”
I told them how I had left Corporate America in April because filing, stapling and collating were not my passions. I told them how now I get to write all day and actually become excited …

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The other day I started to receive an unusual amount of email. And not only was it the amount that was unusual, but what they said. They were all saying, “Congratulations!” The problem is, I had no idea what they were talking about.
Apparently, I had won some contest and my URL was passed out in a mass mailing. In two days, this site that receives around 1000 hits a day received over 30,000. I was absolutely floored by that.
All the …

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