Not a legend but the name was fun. This is just the random stuff I've thought about and want to remember. If you find it useful, hurray! If not, you'll know me better anyway.
Stories of My Life
AKA “the blog” – this is a hodge-podge mixup of everything else I feel like posting.
Timeboxing, single mom edition
TL;DR: After all these years alone, I’m still seriously underestimating how much time it takes to do “mom tasks.”
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Oh, snap.
There’s a Russian superstition saying it’s terrible luck to step outside without looking in a mirror first. I’m thinking they might be right. This morning, I deliberately put on jeans before rushing the kids to school. I wanted to pick up a few items at the grocery store, but figured with my feral hair, painted […]
MoreSplitting up…
So I’ve actually been thinking about dividing my personal stuff back out into a separate blog again. It would be a lot of work, but I think I would be able to much better showcase my geek/designer/marketing skills here if I took the mommy/faith/life stuff over to another blog. I’d also feel far more comfortable […]
MoreCharter School Drama
Anyone who knows me knows I -love- my kids’ school. I’ve blogged about some of the amazing things they do. I am super heartbroken, though, about all the politics and drama. Several excellent teachers were recently let go without warning or explanation. Now it feels like we’ve got two camps battling each other: the business/leadership […]
MoreThe new resumé is up.
My last post detailed the problems I found with my old resumé, so I’m hoping this new one addresses them sufficiently. This is what I was after: 1) Job Titles don’t match experience: If the title doesn’t match, name the departments instead; the goal is to provide more meaning in fewer words. 2) Layout issues: […]
MoreRethinking my Resumé
I haven’t really updated my resume since 2002 when a professional writer wrote some descriptions for me in exchange for some work. At that time, I didn’t feel like the “action phrases” really portrayed the value I would bring a company. They sounded fairly bombastic to me, but necessary anyway as far as I knew. […]
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Legend of Velda 