Author: Donna Schwartz Mills

This Week’s Challenge: Tax-ing Commitments

This Week’s Challenge: Tax-ing Commitments

Posted by | Mar 11, 2013 | |

I finally submitted all my tax information last week and breathed a sigh of relief. The following day, I experienced a bout of unaccustomed efficiency: I wrote, I updated websites, I interacted with people. It’s like this huge taxing weight had been lifted and I was able to focus on doing meaningful work.

One day later, I was back to my usual, drifting, unfocused self. But last week, I showed myself that I CAN cross things off my to-do list. And this week, dawggoneit, I’m going to do it again.

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Daylight Savings Time Sucks. So Does Losing Your Neighborhood Market.

Daylight Savings Time Sucks. So Does Losing Your Neighborhood Market.

Posted by | Mar 10, 2013 | , |

I look forward all year to the day we move the clock back an hour. It’s better than Christmas.

But: Losing that hour every Spring hits me like a ton of bricks. It’s like having jet lag without the pleasure of having traveled somewhere. And for some reason, it lasts about as long. It takes me the better part of a week to adjust.

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The “Shtupper-ware Party”

The “Shtupper-ware Party”

Posted by | Mar 8, 2013 | , |

Now, I’ve always heard that the San Fernando Valley is the pornography capital of the world, and I’ve been vaguely aware that people I meet through school and kids’ activities might be a part of that. I didn’t expect it at my friend’s sales party.

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My Mail is Annoying Me

My Mail is Annoying Me

Posted by | Mar 6, 2013 | |

It’s early in the month, so I was not surprised to find a mailbox full of advertising mailers and flyers. But buried within the pile was an invoice from the lab that took the X-rays of my broken thumb and toe last year. I was pretty sure I had paid them in full, so I was pretty annoyed. The invoice was stamped with the phrase FINAL NOTICE in big red letters. Perplexing, since I have not received any billing from them in months. You know, since I PAID them.

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Local Politics: The LA Mayor’s Race

Local Politics: The LA Mayor’s Race

Posted by | Feb 28, 2013 | , , |

We’re voting for LA Mayor on Tuesday – and four of the five front running candidates are Democrats. So when you’re facing a slate whose stated views are all pretty similar to your own — and without a lot of polarizing issues between them — how does one choose?

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