My name is Allison and I am addicted to buying domain names. I am in recovery. I’m making progress. I’m getting better. But like any addiction, it is a lifelong thing. At my highest point, I had around 100-110 domain names. For those of you who are hardcore, this is nothing. For the rest of [...]
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When I see that my bf or my bff has poked me on Facebook. When I have completed my grocery shopping before 9am. Listening and re-listening to my 5-year-old niece’s voicemails to me. Florida sunrises and sunsets. Florida winters. Scrolling through the ridiculous amounts of books on my kindle and looking at the cover picture [...]
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I am on an island. Not figuratively. Literally. I am on an island. Said island is not exactly in the middle of nowhere, but away from most somewheres I know. No cars on this island, you need your own boat or a water taxi to get here. Nothing commercial on the island, unless you count [...]
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Last night, I had three kids (my 2 + Kid 2′s BFF) and few dinner options. I am usually super-organized ahead of time as far as dinner, snacks and the like. Last night, I wasn’t. Kid 2 also informed me that we needed to go to the library for an emergency book she forgot all [...]
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I come from a family of hair people. Hair is one of our things. It’s important. We have lots of it, always long. I grew up with stories of my grandmother having her head crudely and painfully shaved when she arrived at Auschwitz. I grew up with a mother who put doing and styling her [...]
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I’ve been trying to be more grateful in my thoughts and beliefs. It seems like every other minute I am off on an internal tangent. I find it easier to snap out of it and come back to a better perspective of reality when I focus less on what I was actually thinking about and [...]
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By age 8, I’d decided that no one could help me. No one. Period. But I pretended otherwise, mostly because of the corned beef. * * * I was 7-years-old and in 2nd grade when the teasing began. The girls, three of them, were in 5th and 6th grade, and they picked on me for [...]
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Too many of us, myself included, go around thinking we aren’t making progress, that we aren’t “getting anywhere.” But you know what? You — yes, YOU — have made a lot of progress. Sure, progress can feel slow and painstaking and sometimes non-existent, but it is nonetheless progress.You may have a bad day (or days) [...]
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This morning I awoke to an email that annoyed me. The scenario behind the email goes something like this: I am looking to hire someone to work with me on a long-term growing project that will be one of my priorities this year and going forward. I have spoken with a number of professionals in [...]
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This morning I tried to weasel out of my writing commitment. But my honey called me on it. Well, he didn’t have to. I called myself on it. The conversation went something like this: Me: Let’s go out to breakfast, wouldn’t that be fun!? Him: Sure. Me: How about we go right now!? Him: After [...]
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