As we resume our story, we find Betsy wandering aimlessly through her brain, wondering if Mavis, the elderly Mary-Poppins-like career consultant who visited her on Wednesday as a voice in her head sent by the International Muse Council (see this post for details), will return as promised…. *singing* OOOOO Super-california-licious-blah-blah-ala-docious! Super– Hello, dear. Mavis, you came back! […]
Archives for 2014
Mavis
April 9, 2014 by
Hello, dear. I…hello? Who are you? I’m Mavis, dear. No…I mean…it’s nice to meet you, but who ARE you? And why are you talking to me? I’m a consultant, dear. I have a consultant who’s a voice in my head. Yes, dear. Wow. I’m more screwed up than I thought I was. I mean, can […]
Defining Success
April 3, 2014 by
Because I want to be honest here on the blog (and it’s not a secret anyway), I’ll tell you that I feel like I’ve been flailing around quite a bit for the last year or so, especially when it comes to my writing career. I’ve been thinking about that fact a lot lately. Also, since […]
Revisiting Assumptions About Time
March 30, 2014 by
As I contemplate the past couple of months (detailed in my previous blog post), I see that I need to revisit some of my assumptions about time. Specifically my time. I am a single woman with a relatively demanding job and a lot of the responsibility for the care of an elderly, pretty-much-housebound, parent. I […]
Challenges, Cats, and Coming Home
March 23, 2014 by
So, I haven’t been here for a while. The last couple of months have been extremely challenging for me on many different levels. I was sick for the entire month of January (literally). I fell trying to shovel my elderly mother out of her house and was laid up with a badly sprained ankle and […]
