It's 8:49 on Monday night. Steph's gonna kill me. I should already be in bed. Tomorrow is probably gonna be a little rough. (I promise to attempt cheer.) I'm the 911 Operator for my clients. Basically, if one of them has an emergency, ultimately, the buck stops with me. If they need …
Inside the Line
We know each other by our lines. That seemingly "throwaway line" spoken by one character near the end of a novel I absolutely loved (scroll down for link), has continued to stick with me for weeks. Maybe because that line helped another character resolve the main mystery of the book. We know …
The Reset I Didn’t See Coming
"Forward is a pace." I woke up this morning and started doomscrolling Facebook. Tangent: Every time I think "THAT is the word of the year," I read a new one starting to take hold. In addition to studies about virus, I expect studies about the pace of the change of language in 2020. Back to …
Prove You’re Human
"UpWork has determined you are a bot. Please complete the CAPTCHA to prove you're a human." Ok, so that set off quite the cascade of thoughts at 6:17 pm on a Tuesday. I was hunting around for a job description that we wrote so I could share it with a client. If only clicking a checkbox …
Getting Started With E-Commerce
In the June 2020 edition of Green Profit, Katie dives deep into getting started the right way with e-commerce. As with anything, there are a million ways to start a project but there is only on Katie Way™ and for e-commerce, this is the way. In this article, you will learn: How to evaluate …
Something in Return
For the last two weeks I've helped my Mom get into her Zoom exercise classes. On Tuesday or so she said, "This week is the last week they're doing classes. They can't keep paying their instructors without collecting membership fees." I asked her, "Did they even ASK you guys if you would pay …
What Now?
Hi! It's Friday, and if you're reading this, you've made it through a challenging week. (I think the only person not experiencing an entire life upheaval is probably one living on a no-contact island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.) I'm not even gonna …
We’ve Been Training for This
Is it the end of the world as we know it? Probably. What's happened in the United States (not to mention, the world) over the last 7 days is, as the news anchors incessantly say, "unprecedented." Mainly because the last time there was a pandemic (well, I'm …
The Trump Card
"So if clubs are trump (the winning suit), then the jack of spades becomes a jack of clubs." My best friend from first grade lives a block from my parents and while I've been awaiting home renovation to be complete, we've been hanging out. One gray Saturday, she, her …
Change or [REDACTED]
A friend of mine shared something on Facebook that read like a punch in the face. Well, that's not new! Plenty of Facebook reads like a punch in the face. But this was one of those little phrases — callouts, quotes, motivational mantras — that made me gasp. Once I absorbed it (but …
