Haters Gonna Hate

I chuckled looking at the computer screen, nearly choking on my first cup of coffee.  Was that the best they could do? This week our town held its annual budget vote.  In our tiny New England town, the residents have to approve the spending plan each and every year at the polls.  It’s called an [...]

Unemployed

I lost my job yesterday. It’s not a huge job, mind you.  I’ve been working on and off at our local children’s art studio for five years.  Jill and I started working together after she allowed me to host a Kyle Vincent concert at her studio in late 2006.  I didn’t know her then; a [...]

The Question and the Answer

It was a cool and rainy November morning in Connecticut.  I’d sent the kids off to school and should be walking on the treadmill to start getting serious about dropping the extra weight I’d been slowly gaining over the last few years.  But I couldn’t stop thinking about what was going on in Michigan today.  [...]

Instant Message of Pain

I sat in front of the television, laptop balanced on my lap two days later.  It was ten or so, the little ones in bed, my husband in Michigan.  He worked there now, about eight days a month, him having been given the job after all but it being determined that it wasn’t a big [...]

Welcome to Politics

“What the hell is this?” I said into the phone while simultaneously scanning the news story online.  I wasn’t exactly used to seeing my name in the news, though it had happened several times through my education advocacy work.  But this, this was different. It was September, and my three girlfriends and I were running [...]

Modern Family

“Mom, can you come in here for a sec?” Z asked as I walked by his doorway, laundry basket in tow. R was still at work, late, this being week three of the quarter close, the last week.  The numbers were finalized on the Thursday, and reported to Wall Street at 6am on Friday.  This [...]

Know When to Hold ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em

I couldn’t believe my eyes.  Two weeks after I’d had my conversation with Rick in Atlantic City, and handed over my detailed, well thought out business plan which delineated levels of payment for differing levels of exclusive content, I found a new web link on Rick Springfield’s official website. “Access is official Rick Springfield advanced [...]

What We Did

Thursday, September 1, 2005: I can’t tell you all how amazed I am at the response to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Project. I am sure you’re all watching the news as much as I am, and what I’m seeing makes me feel even more strongly than ever that we must do whatever it is each [...]

Difficult Days

(this post will appear slightly chronologically out of order) I wrote each of these to thousands of Rick Springfield fans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sent:  Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 Subject:  Katrina I have spent my morning counting my blessings while running my two youngest children to their first day of school.  I spent [...]

Another Website Gig

“Would you be interested in working on my website?” Kyle Vincent asked over the phone. When I’d gone to see Kyle at my friend Erin’s house last spring, he’d been happy to see me of course; it had been years since we’d seen each other, and we’d always hit it off, from the first time [...]