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    Adjustments

    I turned in my company-issued Blackberry yesterday, which means I’m down to my one and only iPhone. For about four years, I’ve double-fisted phones in an effort to keep work…

    Posted on March 29, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in basketball employment football life personal experience sports

    What I’ve been up to for the past decade

    Every year some research firm ranks 200 kinds of jobs from best to worst, and being a reporter is usually within 15 spots of the bottom, ranked among low-paying industrial…

    Posted on March 26, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in employment life

    I have news

    The Modern Love Machine and I went over to our friends’ house to help celebrate a birthday this past weekend, and while driving over there we plotted how we’d share…

    Posted on March 14, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in basketball college family food and drink holidays life love and relationships marriage personal experience pets sports

    Merry Leap Day

    Four years ago, back in the days when I posted to this blog not once but twice daily (those were the days), I decided to do 29 new things on…

    Posted on February 29, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in college life

    Possibility

    My life has been very full of doing things lately, as prescribed by my phrase of the year. I can’t say my life is terribly balanced at the moment. I…

    Posted on February 18, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in friendship life personal experience

    Bush league

    You know those days where you wake up and you just feel off? You’re tired despite having gotten enough sleep. You spill your coffee. You look in your closet and…

    Posted on January 21, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in budgeting and finance family friendship health and exercise life lists

    North Stars

    Man, posting resolution lists seems like The Thing to do this week. I almost feel silly posting one of my own, but at the same time the public accountability and…

    Posted on January 5, 2012 by themoderngal
    Posted in life personal experience

    Do things

    As everyone’s been posting their year-end recaps and reflections, I’ve tried to wrap my brain around 2011. But even with some prompting questions from my friend Kristin, I really could…

    Posted on December 31, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in family health and exercise life personal experience

    An antidote for the hurt

    Here I am, emerging from another long radio silence. I haven’t blogged not for lack of things to talk about but because all the posts I considered writing seemed superficial…

    Posted on December 9, 2011 by themoderngal
    Posted in college employment life personal experience

    Back to school

    A few times a year I’m invited to speak to classes at the local university about my career. When the first invitation of the school year came, I was inclined…

    Posted on October 7, 2011 by themoderngal
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