I Might Like My Job
Has it been 12 days since I last blogged? That's terrible.I don't know why working 37.5 hours a week as a waitress left me so much more time to blog than working 37.5 hours a week as an office worker, but I guess it did. Or maybe my level of unhappiness kept me...
Having Kids Does Not Make You Happy
My favorite part of Lorraine Ali's Newsweek article (July 14, 2008) about the effects of children on happiness is this: In Daniel Gilbert's 2006 book "Stumbling on Happiness," the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital...
Difficult Job Situation: Who’s Right?
A very good employee has a perfectly fine performance record. One day, she becomes aware of a task that needs to be done at her company. It's a money task and she wasn't hired to handle money. Maybe she mentions it in passing to her supervisor, who takes no action. So...
Make Friends With Those With Opposite Beliefs?
In my never-ending movement towards becoming a bigger and bigger geek (at 5 feet, two inches tall, I can only get bigger in this kind of way), I have completely become a National Public Radio listener. It's really my husband's fault: he bought me an iPod for...
I HAVE A JOB
Finally!I finally have a job! A real, permanent, full-time, salaried position at an international, historical, stable, not-for-profit organization that exists only to do good in the world. My job? To support the staff of the polio eradication division.I'm supporting...
Married and Lonely
Getting married two months ago was great, but I've noticed that this winter and spring it has been very hard to get my friends to spend time with me. I understand that they are busy. Everyone's busy. And many of them have boyfriends or husbands or even children. But I...
Thank you, N/A!
A second anonymous person has sent us a wedding gift and it's the bedsheets we've been needing. Thank you, Whoever you are!
I Am My Mother
In case anyone has ever wondered, "What did Regina's mother look like at age 41?" here's a photo to help you out. I took this picture of myself yesterday because I realized that I have now become my mother: it's the hair, the mouth, the expression, the shade of...
Little Things Make Me Happy (also Big Things)
My friend Donna was one of the many people to whom Bob and I sent a marriage announcement in March. She recently moved and it took a very long time for her to get it. But when she did, she dashed off this email message: Guess what else I finally got? Your wedding...
Thanks, N/A!
Someone sent Bob and me an anonymous wedding gift through our online registry: the twelve-inch everyday pan. Since you didn't leave your name, I can only hope you read my blog (and I'm guessing it was someone who reads my blog since I posted the info about our online...
San Francisco’s Top Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Yesterday California's Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples in California can marry. Finally! It almost makes me wonder what I'm doing in the midwest whenever San Francisco shows its brave, progressive side like this. Gay and lesbian couples that are residents...
Always a Vice-Presidential Nominee, Never a Presidential Nominee?
The TIMING of John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama really does sort of deal a death blow to Clinton's campaign. Edwards waited for his moment, didn't he? Was this his plan all along? To step forward at the critical moment, when his announcement would be most...