Author: Angie
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An AAR of the Freelancer’s Conference (inspired by the Fyre Festival documentary)
In 2016, I launched a conference for freelancers that would be held the following year, in April 2017. In late February 2017, I cancelled that conference and refunded all of the tickets. After watching the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix this afternoon, I decided to write a bit about my own failure launching an event,…
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2018: A Year In Review
I’m writing this year in review as encouragement to myself (and to you) to blog, and blog more. We did a lot of great things this year, and when I sat down to review the year at once I can see more easily what a joy 2018 was. It didn’t start out that way, though.…
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Pumpkin Chili
The weather finally turned cool this week and I personally felt the need to mark the passing of summer with the MOST possible fall-like meal ever: Pumpkin Chili. Everyone in our family gobbled it up! I hope you’ll try it soon and let me know what you think of it. Update – I entered this…
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8 Things I DIDN’T See While In Grand Rapids, MI
Since I was only going to be in town for one night, then leaving the next morning, I didn’t really get to see much of Grand Rapids…which was my mistake, because it looks amazing! I don’t know what I expected, but it certainly wasn’t what I found in Grand Rapids. Here are 8 things I’ll…
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Is Tough Mudder Worth It?
When was the LAST time you did something for the FIRST time? Those are the words chanted by the host of a Tough Mudder at the starting line. For my 39th birthday in December 2017, I told Bob all I wanted as a gift was a registration to a Tough Mudder. It had been a…
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That’s not a knife.
Do you remember this scene from Crocodile Dundee? I couldn’t have been more than 10 when this movie came out, and I don’t remember any other scene from the movie except this one. Mike Dundee and Sue are walking out of a party when they’re approached by a few would-be robbers. One of them pulls…