Month: October 2015

My neighbor is a woodworker.  What started as a hobby has turned into a business and for the crafters/garbage pickers/yard salers around here he is a dream come true.  Whatever you haul down to him he can fix, replicate or repair. He now has a store and a partner, making, selling and repairing musical instruments. … Read more

Since leaving my job in April I have gone on twelve (that is 12) interviews and that doesn’t even include the phone ones.  Here’s the highlight reel of rolling the please-hire-me job dice: *The first interview was at a private, expensive school.  I was grilled for an hour and I do mean grilled.  I was … Read more

This is a post about the women I encountered over the course of a week.  Some I knew, some that were new to me.  I have been changed by all of them. The first week of work at my last job I bonded with the HR manager.  I have written about her before – we did … Read more