Lifestyle
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Cozyla Calendar Review: Real Wins, Real Frustrations
If you’re patient with tech and willing to find the workarounds, there’s something here. If you need it to work intuitively out of the box — especially for a kid who needs clear, exciting feedback — you’re going to hit walls.
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Finding Time to Write Amidst Life’s Chaos
Distraction is part of our modern layered lifestyles. But it’s these daily fragments that inspire. An idea for a plot twist struck me while driving from the UPS store. A rough day on the water training inspired a blog. Life interrupts, but it also colors.
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Building a Sustainable Sense of Home
Each time we move, I try to start small: where can we participate, not just consume? What grows here, literally and figuratively, that we can tend to?
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A Home Seller and Buyer’s Journey – Part 2: Choosing a Listing Agent
This time, we know zero real estate agents. So how did I go about finding a listing real estate agent? What did they do to win my business?
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A Home Seller and Buyer’s Journey – Part 1: Hello, Agents
Read about my family’s home selling and home buying journey. As a freelance copywriter who happens to write for many real estate agents, I’ve spent hours crafting content on everything from the value a real estate agent brings to a transaction to how to stage your home. This is my…
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I Was Disconnected For Three Days. Here’s What Happened
This disconnect wasn’t one of experiments where people turn the phone off for a day, and then peter around the house streaming Netflix and ordering takeout on Alexa. No, I was forcibly unplugged from our always-on world for practically three days.
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When Clients Ghost You: 7 Tips for Freelancers
Freelancing comes with risk. We’re trusting our clients to honor their payment agreement and to pay us on time. What happens when they don’t?
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Please Don’t Ghost Your Freelancer
When you’re a gig worker, being ignored ranges from downright annoying to a major hit on the bank account. On behalf of freelance workers everywhere, please do not ghost your contract workers.
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The Problem with Balance–or Why You Can’t Have It All
Is it possible to have it all? Family, fun, a killer career, and a clean house? On social media we see people who appear to be crushing their life. One reason I quit teaching was the lack of work/life balance.