September 2011

Entrepreneurship: How much time should I spend on…?

September 9, 2011

The other day I remarked that contract teaching is by far the most reliable source of income among my various little enterprises. Editorial work, however, pays better by the hour, is less taxing, and requires little or no driving around. Blogging is entertaining and a nice sop for one’s ego but does almost nothing for [...]

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Benefits of Joining a Business Group

September 8, 2011

Thursday: another early-morning trek across the Valley to the weekly breakfast meeting of the Scottsdale Business Association. When I was invited to join this group, I privately thought it was going to be more hassle than it was worth. Because eggs make me upchuck unless they’re well diluted with flour and sugar (as in chocolate [...]

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Pound-wise, Penny-foolish?

September 6, 2011

A new J. Jill catalogue arrived the other day. I’ve been planning to buy another of their sleeveless short dresses in the “Wearever” line, since they’ve finally come out with an actual color—blue. Well, they had an actual color last year—old-lady mulberry—and I bought one of those. So now I have two: the regulation black [...]

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Cherry-picking the Looniness

September 5, 2011

  E. Murphy, one of my favorite commenters, engages the discussion that stemmed from a post of a couple of days ago. Says E.: Okay, you can cherry pick some looniness within the Republican party. But you can also cherry pick some looniness within the Democrats also. For godssakes women, the world is NOT black [...]

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Weekend Recouping and Recombobulating

September 4, 2011

One long round of extreme work! Give me a four-day weekend (mine is four days because I don’t have to go back to campus till Wednesday, thank God) and that’s what you’ll get. Is this only Sunday? Saturday morning I decided to return the rockers I’d purchased at Pier One. The stationary outdoor fake-wicker chairs, [...]

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Worrying

September 2, 2011

God, I hate waking up at quarter to four in the morning! It seems to happen every night unless I dope myself with Benadryl. And dammit, every single time I awake in the wee hours, my first conscious thought is some worry. I don’t know whether I wake myself up worrying in my sleep (in [...]

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