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30 Things I Love Right Now

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(1) Lion Babe’s Sun Joint | (2) The Suicide Squad soundtrack. | (3) Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange. Yeah, I know he just released a new album, but I like the old stuff better.| (4) Blogging 5 days a week.  | (5) Blog dates with bae. | (6) CoSchedule. It’s changing my life.  | (7) The Question of the Day in the See Jane Write Facebook group.  | (8) My Jem and the Holograms Synergy earrings. | (9) My Wonder Woman desk chair cape. | (10) My Wonder Woman clutch.  | (11) Binge reading blogs like Quirky, Brown Love. | (12) Interviewing women I admire for my B-Metro Write Like a Girl column.  | (13) Thinking of a master plan… | (14) Queen of the South on USA. | (15) The Get Down on Netflix. | (16) Greenleaf on OWN. | (17) Losing myself in good books and bad TV.  | (18) Watching bad movies with good friends. | (19) Watching my favorite boss babes on Periscope.  | (20) My work lunch bunch.  | (21) Marshmallow Creme Pumpkins.  | (22) Tacos. Always and forever. | (23) Being my husband’s wife. | (24) Being a homeowner. One year later and it’s still not old. | (25) Finally realizing “No” is a complete sentence. | (26) Training for my third half marathon.  | (27) The decision to break new ground.  | (28) Believing I can do the one thing I’ve always dreamed of doing. | (29) Believing that I will.  | (30) Dreaming bigger than I ever have before.

30 Things I Love Right Now is a blog feature created by writer TJ Beitelman. 

Redefining Balance

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A few years ago I had the honor of attending a lecture by renowned journalist Soledad O’Brien. During the Q&A period of O’Brien’s talk an audience member asked her a question often asked of highly successful women who juggle busy careers with motherhood: How do you balance it all?

O’Brien’s answer was quite simple. “I don’t,” she said.

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Write, Teach, Sleep, Repeat

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My alter ego – Mrs. Bowser

Many writers find themselves on a path that leads them to the classroom and I am no different. Teaching literature, composition, or creative writing is an excellent way to use your love for the written word to make money and make a difference.

My teacher life started in graduate school where I taught poetry and communication classes to undergrads. Several years later after leaving my full-time job as a newspaper reporter I would return to the classroom, this time as a full-time high school English teacher at my alma mater.

Because of the success I had in the classroom in grad school and because of my deep love for the school at which I was teaching I thought my first year as a full-time teacher would be easy.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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What Every Boss Lady Blogger Needs In Her Bag

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When school is in and I’m back to juggling my full-time teaching job with my part-time blogging business, my whole life changes. My workout schedule changes, my wardrobe changes, what I eat changes. Even the bag I carry gets a makeover. I go from carrying a chic handbag from H&M to rocking a huge Target tote that could be mistaken for carry-on luggage. But in that tote are all the things I need to manage both my teacher life and writer life and my life as a boss babe blogger.

Let’s take a look inside!

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My Life Is Not My Blog

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Energetic. Bubbly. Joyful.

These are all words people have used recently to describe me.

One person even said, “I wonder if you ever have a bad day.”

Another said she admires me because I am “so together.”

While these comments are sometimes flattering, sometimes that make me wonder if I’m being fake.

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