The Hellish Handbasket

The moon must be aligned with Uranus or something. Fruit basket upset! Everyone important to me seems to be on the move. My jet-set sister, ...

Fall sucks. I'm officially declaring my intention to hibernate until spring, mentally, anyway, if not physically. Oh, I'll show up f...

As I slide down the dark tunnel toward winter, I'm embracing my inner curmudgeon by de-connecting from social media. I started with Link...

Bless me, Hellish Hand-basket readers. It's been over a week since my last blog post. My excuse is that I've been immersed once agai...

My forward momentum plunged into a tailspin with the coming of fall and cool weather. Even though this afternoon the rain clouds scattered, ...

I'm back in editing hell, editing other people's crappy papers instead of my own. I should be grateful. I am getting paid for my eff...

When I am sitting like a blob at networking functions, or ripping along the freeway cursing out slow drivers, or picking cat hair out of my ...

This is the time of year when everything goes sideways. A lifetime of Septembers has left me with a vague sense of dread. What will I wear f...

I wish I were smarter. If I were smarter, I would no doubt be able to gather up all the loose ends of this entrepreneurial fiasco and bundle...

My sister perused the photos from my high school reunion and sent me an email complimenting me on not getting fat. (Isn't that sweet?) C...

It seems like every time I write about an event I attended, I start with “I survived the...” Is that odd? Do you do that? No, probably not. ...

Last night I gave my first official presentation to a small crowd of Meetup junkies. We met in a back room at a Chinese restaurant, where in...

Nothing inspires me to blog more than noise in the neighborhood. I was trying to update one of my websites, which is always a challenge beca...

Summer is speeding by while I'm learning the nuances of networking. Another delicious 90° day in Portland. I went out in the mid-morning...

You want to bring the crazies out of the woodwork? Plan a high school reunion. I offered to assist, along with a handful of other well-meani...

I often get spam email in my Outlook inbox. I've set up rules that filter out anything with the words pfizer , viagra , penis enlargemen...

I'm starting to get a sense of the networking scene. Tonight I got another perspective on it at a networking event about networking. I k...

Solopreneurs work alone, by definition. That means we are the face of our business (...and the hands, feet, wide butt, and bulging belly). W...

This is a great time of year to be homeless in Portland. Not that I'm homeless, yet, just saying. This is my kind of season: day after d...