On Saturday night it hit me that I let two weeks of school vacation go by without making a dent on the mess in my office. It would have been the perfect time to get everything cleaned out. On the other hand, I spent a lot of QT with my son doing things like polymer [...]
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Jan1
Operation Office Overhaul: Diana’s story
The moment happened three weeks ago. My husband told me our auto insurance company needed the title to a car that had been totaled. My stomach sank. I knew the title was in our safe deposit box over at the bank. When my son was a toddler he’d wreaked havoc in my office, picking labels [...]
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Jan1
Operation Office Overhaul: Alison Gets Going
Welcome to the “before” pictures of my office (click on pictures for a better view). It’s a bit of a mess, as you can see (and really, you can’t see the messiest parts of it in this picture) and so, in preparation for 2009, I’m sitting at the desk, getting ready to give it a [...]
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Dec30
Announcing Operation Office Overhaul
Renegade Writer instructor Alison Stein Wellner and I have decided to out ourselves in 2009. No, not like that … like this:
We’re slobs! We decided that in 2009, we’re going to clean up our freelancing lives, and that starts with our offices. We’ll start by showing you photos of what we’re dealing with (believe us, [...]
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