I couldn’t find my keys this morning as I was trying to leave the house. This never happens to me but it’s only to be expected it should start happening now that I have a new job that expects me to arrive — and rightly so — at a certain…

January 1 – Sore Throat January 2 – Congestion, Coughing Like An Exorcism Is Taking Place, Chills, Fever January 3 – First work day of new year in new job. Spent in bed. January 4 – Second work day of new year in new job. Spent in bed. January 5…

Here we find ourselves again, sending out the old and ringing in the new. Counting our blessings and trying to decide what we want to work to improve upon in the coming year. I can honestly say that all I’ve resolved to do in the last few years is find…

These two “Instructions” have come up on my Life’s Little Instruction Calendar and I wanted to share them with you: December 22nd:Change what you can.Accept what you can’t.Live peacefully with all that’s left. December 29th:This coming year make time for good books, good food, good blogs and good friends. (OK,…

I hope you are all having a great holiday and enjoying this week between the chaos of Christmas and the chaos of a New Year. I’m just taking a little break but I’ll be back strong in 2011, if not before.

I had been out of work for almost 3 years and now, the day before Christmas Eve, everyone I know – and apparently everyone I don’t know – is home, snuggled in their beds, visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads. I, however, am sitting at my desk drinking my…

I started my new job a week ago and one of the women in my office is leaving the company tomorrow. Even though we do totally different jobs, it’s the yin and the yang, the Circle of Life. She’s excited about her new opportunity and seems more than ready to…

You know you’ve been out of work a long time when you go to order office supplies to order a notebook to write things in with a pen and computers come up. Same with tablets.

I am struggling with a major case of uncomfortableness in the new job and I’m trying to analyze what is going on. Is it just returning to the work force after so much time? Is it the fact that I am, for the first time in my career, not the…

I received this email today, on my second day of work at my new job: Dear Sister Rain, Thank you for your interest in XYZ Medical. Unfortunately, this email is to inform you that we have filled the Meeting Planner position. We invite you to revisit our website to view…