Raise your hand if, five minutes ago, you too were eating homemade cream cheese icing out of a Tupperware container with a spoon. Extra points if also, like me, you were leaning against your kitchen cabinets and slowly eating the icing while watching (but not really paying attention to) The Office episode where James Spader […]
It’s a minute before 8:00 p.m. on a Saturday night. The sun has just started to set. I can tell we’re approaching the golden hour because rays of sunlight are hitting lower on the tree line that stretches across our backyard. It is my favorite time of day in all of Indiana. I am on […]
It’s 11:31 p.m. The first day of 2024 is coming to an end. I am sitting in front of a crackling fire and can hear my daughter laughing upstairs with her best friend. My son is in the kitchen, drinking hot chocolate and looking at his phone. My husband is watching an unscripted Discovery Channel […]
My father-in-law died this month. I honestly don’t know what to type after that sentence. There’s nothing I can say that doesn’t sound cliché or overtly sentimental, and he deserves so much more. He was a county council member, the former president of both the Kiwanis club and Community Corrections Advisory Board. The day after […]
The last half marathon I ran was on April 1, 2017. It was a double loop around Notre Dame’s campus called the Holy Half — runners had to complete the same 6.5 mile path twice, zigging and zagging through the dorms, past the cathedral, around a lake and in and out of parking lots. I […]
Warning: This post includes mentions of a suicide. If you are suffering from suicidal thoughts or emotional distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 via this toll-free number: 1-800-273-8255. My goal for this diary was to write something at least twice a week. Something, anything, about being a woman who works and who […]
For nearly a decade, my route to work involved taking Story Avenue exit to get to Payne Street to go to an office that once upon a time had been a catholic church. For someone who has started a blog dedicated to stories about being a working woman, it’s impossible not to see the metaphor […]
Confession: I spent all of 2019 searching for a new job. I recently tweeted about this, about how exhausting and demoralizing the year was. How it was one of the most difficult years of my career; and how now, just two months shy of my one-year anniversary as a freelancer, I was having a full […]
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