Reliving the Glory of the Olympics By Writing A Memoir

Reliving the Glory of the Olympics By Writing A Memoir

Why Creating the Best Blog Can Be Like Training for the Olympics

We see them on TV every two years: finely-tuned Olympic athletes attempting to do more than they’ve ever done before.

Years of training and preparation are the obvious foundations for their success, but there are other, more subtle practices that set in motion their trajectory towards victory.

If we study the successful, especially athletes, we can learn a great deal about how to create similar success with our dreams... Why Creating the Best Blog Can Be Like Training for the Olympics

Surviving Teenagers, Holiday Breaks and Other Parenting Madness

Parents are a weird bunch.

First we wish that school will give us a break so that we can get off the parenting madness hamster wheel for a while, then four days into the break we want to pay the school district big money to take our kids back.

The really together parents plan out their kids vacations.

It's like they know they will be driven nuts and will pay any amount of money to other people to keep their kids busy over the holidays.

I am not the smart, or that rich.

My son disappears into his room of video games and the Internet and only comes out to eat and pee. This can be good except by day 4 I am tired of seeing it. He's at that age right before getting a job bit right after needing me for entertainment.

But he does interrupt my day with questions and comments like, "Do we have any jelly?" "Did you open the fridge?" "No." "Then open the fridge."

Do that conversation times a hundred and you'll get why I want him back in school.

Besides, school exhausts the hell out of kids so they fall asleep by 9:30 and if you are a parent then you know our goal every single day is to wear our kids out so they go to sleep as soon as possible after dinner, and we get a moment to hear ourselves breathe... or drink wine.

Spring is just around the corner.

That time of year where we can make them go outside.

It's coming. I promise. In the meantime put everything they eat at the front of the refrigerator.

C

If you'd like to read more of my musings you can find me at 8 Women Dream and A Week In The Life of a Redhead.

Bitch Please, Can We Talk About Motherhood

Bitch Please, Can We Talk About Motherhood

Yes I Still Work As A Blogger

I am still blogging away, both at A Week In The Life of A Redhead and 8 Women Dream.

Click on those names and stop by for a visit.

Catherine

A Week In the Life of A Redhead on AOL

This is the blog migration of my journal on AOL, where I started blogging in 2005. It was really more of an online diary, until I grew up online by purchasing my own domain, www.aweekinthelifeofaredhead.com and moved to my own server in 2007.

In October of 2008 Aol decided to close their journals section. I exported all my AOL journal posts here to blogger so that my first writings will live on.

I still blog at http://www.aweekinthelifeofaredhead.com and http://www.8womendream.com.

Come by and visit!

Catherine, the redhead blogger
http://www.aweekinthelifeofaredhead.com

AOL to Blogger

AOL is closing AOL Journals and AOL Pictures and blogger agreed to take all the content on for any user who wishes to save their creations. I migrated my old blog and photos here. Thank you blogger - you are wonderful.

But my blog is actually at: http://www.aweekinthelifeofaredhead.com I set up my own blog there in 2007.

I recommend the Rafanelli zin.

Tags: zinfandel wine, a raffanelli wine, redheads, top blogger