Business is Connection

Jun 18, 2015 | business, design, work-at-home mom

Have you ever had a friendship where you didn’t exchange something of value– something like a gift, a borrowed book, a recipe, or a good joke– with your friend? Of course not! When you really connect with someone, an exchange of value is inevitable. Business is,...

My Routine as a Full-Time-Part-Time WAHM

Jan 30, 2015 | work-at-home mom

After living for no more than a school-year in any one place for the last eight years, I am now a homeowner, along with my husband. That doesn’t mean that life is any less chaotic now, but it does mean that I’ve been motivated to establish a routine for...

Ways I’ve Used My Second Screen

Feb 22, 2014 | design, work-at-home mom

For a long time I made fun of my husband for keeping several extra computer monitors around. He had given away or junked several older computers but he wouldn’t part with the monitors. I thought it was just the little bit of hoarder in him coming to the surface....

My Rice Paddy

Dec 21, 2013 | design, work-at-home mom

For millennia, moms have strapped their babies on to their backs and gone off to work. After I recovered from the stress of moving, colic, traveling, and more colic that followed shortly after the birth of our daughter, I was ready to enter the economical exchange...

Help from a Toddler

Dec 19, 2013 | design, work-at-home mom

Sometimes in the wee hours of the morning our wee child wakes up. And then, with a little help, she goes back to sleep. All that helping leaves me wide awake, alone, in the dark hours of a winter morning. But don’t worry, there is plenty to do, and with everyone...