Lots of knitting. Lots and lots of knitting. (If you’re on Ravelry, you can see my finished projects.) My hands ache from the knitting, particularly the left because I knit Continental. I think I may have to learn to knit…
Lots of knitting. Lots and lots of knitting. (If you’re on Ravelry, you can see my finished projects.) My hands ache from the knitting, particularly the left because I knit Continental. I think I may have to learn to knit…
I’m an Older Woman. My 50th birthday is fast approaching. No matter what I do with my résumé, it is pretty obvious that I’m not a millennial. That is who is truly desired, it seems, by the tech startups that…
Well, I owe you all an apology. This blog has been abandoned for four years, and a lot has happened in that time. Katie is married, about to finish college, and expecting her first child! I went back to work in 2013! I…
So today I attended a vocational rehabilitation workshop called Oasis. I don’t recall what that stands for, but they wanted to identify my interests, aptitudes, and abilities to help me go back to work. Yes, that’s what I’m aiming towards.…
Plinky asked, “Do you volunteer?” Not at the moment, unfortunately 🙁 I have in the past, with an online safety group, Girl Scouts, homeschooling groups, Freecycle, and other organizations. I’m looking for something to do again, since I find myself…
Yes, yes—I promise this is the last post for now. Probably for the weekend, but at least for a few hours! I continue to hope to find some kind of work that I can do from home despite my uncooperative body.…
The girl had an appointment at the doctor’s office today, then we had to go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done–just part of the normal monitoring for some of her meds. And that’s…
I read Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease by Rosalind Joffe and Joan Friedlander a few months back, but for some reason, my review on Amazon took a while to show up, and I didn’t think to keep a copy for…
And so far, I’ve only lost one point in my Project Management class, none in the other class. That was due to a stupid mousing error—bad hands! Oh well, if that’s all my hands cost me this semester, I’ll be happy.…
I’m working on a new podcast episode. Really! And I’d like very much to hear from you. Are you working? Have you had to change anything about work since developing a chronic illness? Have any of you gone back to…
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