The Next Step

Next week represents another new milestone in my life, as exactly one week from today, I’ll be starting my new job. If you’ve been reading Ordinary Mer for any decent length of time, you know that I’ve been unemployed and actively searching for work for the last six months or so. A couple of weeks [...]

Operation: Commando

Fair warning: what follows in this blog post is potentially embarrassing to both blogger and reader. Proceed at your own risk. Sometimes, I really do wonder what the hell I was thinking when I came up with my 15 Before 30 list – because some of the items of the list have a really high [...]

Across the Generational Divide

One of the obstacles that comes with having a large extended family is the need to keep everyone informed when something happens. After my grandmother’s stroke in August, I saw that we needed a way to keep everyone in the loop without having the same conversations ad naseum. So I suggested – and was given [...]