outsidevoice

(That sort of cheesy alliteration can only be pulled off with copious amounts of Bloody Mary on the morning of Memorial Day.) Ahem. Don’t let anyone tell you that the whole MommyBlogging thing is a waste of time. They lie. If it were not for this little red piece of the internet, the Mom2Summit and [...]

It is okay to have a bad day. There. I said it. This may be a wildly unpopular idea or just wildly impossible if I’m to believe my Twitter stream or Facebook Feed on any given day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking “happy” or “blessed” or “joyful” in any way. They are great [...]

It was all I could do to walk into that ballroom. I was on the tail end of a raging head cold. I was fighting the worst asthma issues I’ve had since diagnosis 6 months ago. I was fighting my inner introvert. I knew no one. There were others who met up with hometown friends. [...]

I signed up for the mom 2.0 summit last night.  Someone get me a cocktail.  I feel like my inner entrepreneur and ‘net whore is just SCREAMING with enthusiasm but my little-known inner introvert is absolutely DYING right now with anxiety. D-Y-I-N-G. It is not often that I am rendered speechless or in just plain [...]

Seriously. I’ve been dicking around with this little purple site – or, really, NOT dicking around with it for a year. I’ve struggled with having nothing to to say or being unwilling to write about certain things. I have been indecisive and unsure. I have been caught up in my head to a point where [...]