Lessons of life and love and loss
Fourteen years ago I succumbed to family pressure and added a dog to our family. I wasn’t sure why because as I repeatedly said, “I can’t even consistently get dinner on the table.” …
SOLOPRENEURSHIP
Three tactics got me to where I am
I truly had no idea what I was signing up for on that fateful day when I left my business development job at a biotech company and decided to work for myself. It sounded great. No more stupid bosses. No more silly make-work projects. No more explaining that when I…
PERSONAL
Essentially all stories begin and end here
Every day, I pass this bench when I walk my dog. The words of Mary Oliver have captivated me. If a bench could speak, what would it say? What are some of the stories it could share about the people who sat here?
This is what I imagine.
A grandmother…
HANNAH #13
And explaining them is a whole other matter
Just as I was thinking about how I could engineer a “take-two” in my relationship with Lucy, my dad’s girlfriend, and maybe even master the ability to apply it elsewhere, I got a big surprise. I suspect God was reminding me how important take-twos are.
“Reminding” because I knew from…
SELF PROMOTION
Necessity was the mother of invention
Author’s note: I have just finished writing a young adult novel that is being “shopped around,” and since no one was interviewing me and I wanted to be heard, I decided to interview myself.
Jill 1: Jill, it’s time we answered a few questions about this unusual dialogue-mostly creation.
Jill…
How twelve readers shaped my rewrite
I have always known how important customer feedback is. After all, it’s what I offer my clients that enables me to write and not worry about the modest compensation.
Taking a page out of my practice on "client offerings," I asked twelve people to read my draft of Alfred and…
HANNAH #12
A new life goal awaits
When we were preparing for Popposites, we would frequently hear Ms. Baker declare, “Take two,” which meant, “repeat the scene,” only we needed to do it better. Through repetition, we fixed some mistakes and eventually got it right.
I understand that “take two” mattered during our rehearsals, but I wonder…
WELLNESS
In six “simple” steps
Is there an art to relaxation? I need to know because my 2022 new year’s resolution is to stop playing “beat the clock.” If there is an art that I can learn, I will stand a better chance of meeting my resolution. With this in mind, I took my laptop…
CRYPTOCURRENCY
Four simple ideas to begin our understanding
Author's note: I am definitely a cryptocurrency newbie, which is why it was fun for me to interview my son, read various articles, and then write this piece. It is all in our grasp with just a little effort. …
HANNAH #12
A true quandary
This question hit me last night when I realized that Ben and I were smack in the middle of our summer. …
