When my first marriage was thrown on a land mine by my ex-wife, I lived with my sister and her family while looking for a place to live. Looking to save money while trying to regroup, I eventually chose an efficiency apartment above a diner. Hideous carpet on slanted floors, a bathroom better suited for a mental... Continue Reading →
Alone
I just sat down to practice piano. My recently unemployed status allows me time to do some of the things that I've allowed to slip away, like vacuuming under the couch or baking for my family or cleaning out the garage. Piano, however, is one of the things that keeps me sane, keeps me from... Continue Reading →
Life Moves Pretty Fast Around Here
If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.--Ferris Bueller's Day Off. My husband's joblessness ended very quickly. Within hours of posting his resume on the magical computer programmer job-finding site, he had calls about three different jobs. He fielded innumerable calls about the positions, and on Tuesday of... Continue Reading →
Taking the Long Way
So that happened. For the first 24 hours that followed our layoffs from our respective jobs, my husband and I could only look at each other and shake our heads. Clearly, our lives were on a path we were not supposed to be on, and our course has been changed. Radically. I can't find another... Continue Reading →
Shaking The Etch-A-Sketch
So there we are, cruising through a normal Wednesday afternoon, when the phone rings. It's for me, it's my office. They have unpleasant news. I'm a full-time employee at my company, so I get a salary no matter what I'm up to. Lately, like the last 6 weeks of lately, they haven't had a billable... Continue Reading →
Meg Currell 