Category: Just the way it is
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Twenty-three years, six months
I’ve talked before (haven’t I?) about how I found myself as a translator and editor. It was a side-effect of a decision to move back to my hometown to look after my parents, or, more accurately, to help my mom look after my dad, whose health was declining. It was the beginning of 2002; they…
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No one ever replies
Dear Paula, I’m a project manager for a mid-size agency. We often get large projects that we need translators for in a relatively short period of time. I send out messages via ATA chapters and contact translators from the ATA directory, but hardly anyone replies. And the translators who do reply don’t have the level…
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It’s not that I’m not thinking of you in this holiday season…
I’ve always been a bit out of step. With the calendar.
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A gusty post, in every sense of the word
March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb. Do any of us really remember at the end of March what the weather was like 30 days before? Same with April showers bring May flowers. Even the groundhog not seeing its shadow in February seems to be based more on wishful thinking —…
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Doing is better than stewing
This is the danger of getting enough sleep — so many thoughts, so little time! What shall I do today? (Assuming I don’t shelve everything and watch baseball with my mom — Phillies currently losing to the Yankees in spring training.) I listened to Radiolab while eating breakfast (I’ll admit it, breakfast at 1 pm,…
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Looking back, thinking ahead
Happy New Year [plus or minus 18 days]! I’ve been thinking of you and meaning to write for [insert as appropriate: days, weeks, months, years]! I’m so sorry I haven’t responded to your [insert as appropriate: birthday card, Christmas card, New Years’ greetings, LinkedIn request] [insert if appropriate: from last year], but I’ve been tied…
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To Your Health: ACA Marketplace Info for 2018 Enrollment
The enrollment period for getting health insurance for 2018 through healthcare.gov starts Nov. 1, but you can log on now to create or update your account!
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May you live in interesting times!
Happy New Year, dear readers. We face interesting challenges in the United States, and if there were ever a time when the arts were essential, now is that time. Literature, theater, visual art, music, dance, film and video, improvisation . . . As well, scientific inquiry, education, philosophy, journalism. All of these pursuits have in…
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Checking in
Gosh, it’s been a while! Sympathetic visitors will interpret this as I’m so busy doing interesting things that I don’t have time to post. The rest will assume negligence of one type or another. Everyone is right to a certain extent. This is one of the freelancer’s dilemmas — even when we’re not working, we…