Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Mar 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
A couple months ago when I started working with Bryan at Lilipip, I was really excited about the creative part of my job – all the writing and aspects of putting together a great animation. But I felt very overwhelmed by the operations tasks I was taking on – namely the multiple bank accounts and [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Startup Mom on Jan 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Yesterday was a little… well… not what I’m used to. At several points during the day I found myself surrounded by the media, like when Beau Bridges and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar arrived for a panel to discuss the role of social media in promoting their new movie, On the Shoulders of Giants. I was sitting on [...]
Posted in Other Places to Find Me, Seen, Heard, Said, Soundrack, Startup Mom on Jan 21st, 2010 5 Comments »
We flew into Salt Lake City tonight for the Sundance Film Festival where we’ll be live streaming and producing video at the Tweet House. While standing in the baggage claim Bryan goes, “Hey, there’s Ted from How I Met Your Mother.” FIVE FEET AWAY. I watched a few people ask for his autograph, smile at [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Jan 16th, 2010 1 Comment »
I’ve been working about 25 hours a week at Lilipip since the New Year, helping out with various project management and operations tasks. It’s been seven years since I last did this – wore something different every day, put on make-up, left the house before nine… you know, the USUAL. It’s been a hard couple [...]
Posted in On Writing, Other Places to Find Me, Startup Mom on Oct 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
I bet you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, lately, amiright? You may recall I did an Ignite talk in April called The Sanity Hacks of a Stay at Home Mom. I love public speaking, and aside from a breakdown or two in the preparatory stage, I had a total blast doing it. Who knew [...]
Posted in Comfort & Control, Everyday, Startup Mom on Sep 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
God, your God, has blessed you in everything you have done. He has guarded you in your travels through this immense wilderness. For forty years now, God, your God, has been right here with you. You haven’t lacked one thing (Deuteronomy 2:7, The Message). I think the tricky part to the Daily Grind is not [...]
Posted in Startup Mom, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Sep 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
Bryan is working from home today – one of the many benefits of our new flexible lifestyle. We all walked together to Ruthie’s bus stop this morning, and he played tag with the kids while I chatted with another mom. I can’t think of a better way to start the day, except maybe with room [...]
Posted in Everyday, Getting Things Done, Startup Mom on Sep 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Last night I escaped to my garden for a few minutes right before starting the kids’ bedtime routine. The sun was going down, the air was cool, and as soon as I reached for a tomato off my plants the anxiousness of our Days slipped away from me. As I continued picking my Sun Golds [...]
Posted in Bryan, Everyday, Living In Community, Startup Mom on Aug 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
I think we were all stretched a little tight last week when Bryan was out every night at events, bookended by working both weekends. It was one of those occasions where it did no good for me to complain about it – whether out loud or in my heart – so I simply embraced the [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Aug 17th, 2009 4 Comments »
Photo from Podcasting News. The reality of being in start-up mode is settling in as we run out the final dregs of cash money and tap into our back-up reserves. One item in our budget that always seems to get cut is wine and liquor. WHY I do this to myself every time money gets [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Aug 10th, 2009 No Comments »
The other day as I drove home from a couple hours spent at the beach I started to feel pretty satisfied with my life. Because I get kinda, you know, whiney sometimes. But after a busy morning of getting work done and a midday of running errands in the heat, we were all pretty content [...]
Posted in Everyday, Startup Mom on Aug 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Bryan works hard, and he works long hours, so spending time with the kids takes a lot of planning ahead. If he has to work in the evening, we sit down to dinner as soon as he gets home, clean up quickly, then move on to a family activity for a couple hours. In the [...]
Posted in Bryan, Everyday, Startup Mom on Aug 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Setup, upset, reset. This is how I’ve come to define our life together – enjoying the moment, but not getting too comfortable in it; being thankful for what we have, knowing we may not have it tomorrow. This is how I define it, even if I don’t always practice it. Sometimes I get greedy and [...]
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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