Author Archives: jen

Time to Breathe

December 17, 2008 – 5:22 pm

For the last 4-5 months (I could not bear to keep track by weeks or days), I have been covering the marketing responsibilities for our entire For Dummies Tech program - part of this time without help from our invaluable coordinator who was on leave herself. I myself have been on two maternity leaves and [...]

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Motherless Daughters

November 11, 2008 – 4:47 pm

I just finished a book that has been sitting on my shelf for 2 years, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 2nd Edition by Hope Edelmann. The author lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 17 years old and is now in her early 40s - outliving her mother. I bought this book [...]

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Self-Professed Microsoft Girl

October 26, 2008 – 10:58 am

I was on the plane yesterday - it was extremely early, I left my home at 5 am - thinking over why I have not blogged here lately. Each day a thought pops in my head and I say to myself “I should blog about that!” But then I turn my attention back to either [...]

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The “Club”

September 18, 2008 – 3:14 pm

A colleague lost her mother over the weekend after a long, long battle with cancer. After talking to her yesterday, I realized just how long with lots of ups and downs. I told her that she now belongs to our “club.” You know who you are out there…the people in their 20, 30s, and early [...]

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Neighbor Update

September 8, 2008 – 8:56 pm

My backyard neighbor Wife J came by on Saturday afternoon to sit on my back patio. Really, she was just sitting there with her eyes closed while I cooked some sausage sauce and pasta for me and the boys. Last I had heard from her and Husband J (who was turned away from a job [...]

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