Miss SugarCookie

Category: work

  • 2023-06-29 List Making for Better Work-Life Balance and More Flavorful Cookies

    2023-06-29 List Making for Better Work-Life Balance and More Flavorful Cookies

    Before I was self-employed, I’d often end my work day by making a list of tasks that needed to get done the next day… or at least a starter list of priorities. Then, the next day when I arrived at my desk, I could look at my list and jump right in. The other benefit,…

  • 2023-04-30 Cycles of Melancholy and Madness

    2023-04-30 Cycles of Melancholy and Madness

    For months I’ve been trying to puzzle out my problem (ok, ok, years or probably my whole damn life)… but for arguments sake let’s just call it months because that’s how long I’ve been experiencing a growing concern about how I feel on a daily basis. This nagging angst coupled with a deep desire to…

  • 2023-03-08 My Mind is Made Up…

    2023-03-08 My Mind is Made Up…

    Last week I did something I haven’t done in years. I wrote something that I decided from the start would never see the light of any day. Just me, my thoughts, and my fingers tippity-typing on the keyboard to get it all out. From one angle it was an experiment to see if I still…

  • 2022-12-03 New Leaf #2 🍂

    2022-12-03 New Leaf #2 🍂

    Leaf number 2: Personal Poetic Pursuits 🍂 I put a great deal of time and mental energy into TGLR. My little literary passion project that’s neither little nor just mine. Our team now has over 20 people and the whole organization, process, and published journal rely on me to hold up my end of the…

  • 2022-04-26 Being the Boss of Me…

    2022-04-26 Being the Boss of Me…

    When I used to have a career, I always subscribed to this notion when approaching management with an issue: Don’t show up empty handed. Show up with potential solutions or at the very least something helpful or positive to counterbalance any bad news or problems. Now that I’ve dumped my career, I still think this…

  • 2022-03-23 One Blog Post to Rule Them All…

    2022-03-23 One Blog Post to Rule Them All…

    Spoiler alert: This will be my last post for the foreseeable future. And it is a long one.   A lot has happened in my life these past 5 years and much of it has been captured in the virtual pages of this space. I created this blog in 2017 when I was literally on the…

  • 2021-11-17 Hello Austin.. Ohhh, How I’ve Missed You

    2021-11-17 Hello Austin.. Ohhh, How I’ve Missed You

    If I would have posted what I wrote yesterday, the title might have been “Miss SugarCookie is On the Move Again” or “Austin Adventure Day 0” or maybe “Seven Reminders Why I Hate Air Travel” but I only wrote a handful of sentence that had nothing to do with traveling or my trip and then…

  • 2021-11-08 Just Another Lustless Monday…

    2021-11-08 Just Another Lustless Monday…

    Welcome to Monday. This morning while my husband was eating the breakfast I cooked him, he asked what my plans were for the day. Just a casual question that might start a conversation if I had some unexpected answer or something I was planning that I’d forgotten to mention previously. I don’t. It’s Monday so…