Freshly divorced in late 2009, I was an independent mom of an 8-month-old and 4-year-old, working as a Senior UX Manager for a large/well-known eCommerce company. I had an $80k salary, health, and many other big company benefits that looked good on paper. By contrast, I had a one-hour commute…

My posts aren’t usually financially focused, but I do get a handful of questions now and then about how I’ve found enough financial freedom not to have been “employed” by anyone since 2013. So, I’ll start folding in some personal money-types of stories into my regular writing. …

I’ve rekindled my writing on Medium for a couple of reasons, one being that I’ve found a few writers I really enjoy reading. It’s awesome when other people’s writing gets you excited enough to make an entire post about their topic. This post comes as a response to one of…

Time for an update on the whole moving to Chicago deal (last mentioned here). Before I dive into detail, I have a question for you: If you have the choice of putting some money into a fixer-upper house OR starting a new business idea (or two) that you’ve wanted to…

The setup. I’ve been happily using my little 2016 MacBook Pro since 2016, but it irreparably gave up the ghost in December, and I decided that instead of ordering a fancy new MBP, I’d try going all iPad. After all, I think approximately 95% of my work is writing. I…

Andrea, Thank you for your patience while I pondered on this one. I’ve written about 14 different versions of this since I received your email. ☺ I’ve boiled my response into 5 bits of advice I’d offer, and while I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for moms-in-tech…

This is the third post following my ‘personal challenge’ journey of writing more consistently and the bonus challenge of completing three short books I started writing years ago. I want to share how it’s going. Personal Challenge #1–Write more consistently Initially, I planned to write a post once per month…

In my last post, and in addition to the goal of writing on a more routine schedule, I posed another self-challenge to finish the book I started from my 2015 NaNoWriMo challenge. So it’s time for a status update with a side note: In my last post, I didn’t mention…

Have you ever had a goal, or challenge, or obstacle that you’ve been trying to tackle for a while but somehow manage to put it off in some form or other, for YEARS? This happens to me every now and then. I excuse myself out of doing a lot things…