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They Came in Through the Bathroom Window

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 25, 2014 in Blather, Getting Old Sucks, House and Home, NaBloPoMo | 1 comment

Last week, my husband and I became victims of a crime. As such, he has some thoughts of his own and asked for co-writing privileges. His contributions are indicated in green. I hit a milestone last week: I managed back-to-back marketing events with nary any pain. I was patting myself on the back Thursday morning for bouncing back from the first one well enough to...

NaBloPoMo LOL: Exercise for Unused Muscles

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 11, 2014 in Blather, NaBloPoMo | 0 comments

I knew it was going to be ridiculously tough for me to post daily this month – but hope springs eternal, so I signed up for NaBloPoMo anyway. I started out strong and petered out before the first week was up. But instead of declaring, “I failed, I can’t do this, I quit” — I’m forging ahead. I may not complete November with 30...

Politics

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 5, 2014 in Blather, NaBloPoMo | 2 comments

I do a political podcast on Wednesdays, and told the people I work for about it — but for some reason, they always try to get hold of me while I’m “on the air.” Maybe it’s because once I told them about it I stayed very, very quiet. It’s not smart to bring politics into business… and I’m a liberal Democrat performing...

I Blame Menopause

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 4, 2014 in Blather, Getting Old Sucks, NaBloPoMo | 0 comments

My mind is a jumble this afternoon, which has become my go-to state… and is one of the reasons I find it so tough to write these days. I blame menopause. I find myself blaming menopause for everything that goes wrong in my life: I blame it for my mood swings, my uncontrollable weight gain, and my inability to focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a...

Because I Really Do Care

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 3, 2014 in Blather, Empty Nest, NaBloPoMo | 0 comments

I love the first couple of days of the month. Not only does it feel like a fresh slate, but there’s the added joy of finding NO NEW BILLS in the mail. But today’s mail included an envelope addressed to “Parents of” from my daughter’s college – with the notation: “FINAL EXAMS INFORMATION ENCLOSED.” Naturally, I opened...

By Donna Schwartz Mills on Nov 2, 2014 in Blather, NaBloPoMo | 0 comments

Does anyone study Marshall McLuhan any more? He was all the rage when I was in high school and college, even making a famous cameo in “Annie Hall.” I never really got him, even though I was first exposed to his work in high school and am pretty sure I had to read him as a media major in college. I vividly remember sitting through a film of “The...