At the end of a stressful year, I meant to take time off in December. But I got caught in a windstorm of new work instead. Some of it hasn’t published yet, but a lot of it did. Here are the articles I wrote that published in December, 2020.
I’m certainly not the first person to comment on how strangely time passes during the pandemic, but I might be the most confused by why it should be so. As a freelancer who works from home, the landscape of my life is still my laptop, my days spent at my desk keeping track of deadlines and kids’ schedules. But I’m as surprised as anyone to find that another month has passed, and I have new published articles to share.
If you’re an editor looking for my recent work, or if you’re a fan *cough* family member keeping track of everything I write, this is where you’ll find links to all my publications in the past month. It’s also where I report on blog performance and oddities. In October, I helped a local nonprofit with some grant work and had eleven articles published between Earth911.com and ParentMap. The grant applications are not for public consumption, but links to the articles are hot off the press (or hot out of the dryer) below.
September is kind of my favorite month. September is back-to-school, switching t-shirts for sweaters, drinking hot lattes instead of iced. Or at least it usually is. This September was remote learning with scheduling mix-ups, smokestorms, and drinking more home-brewed drip coffee because coffee shops are off-limits. At least I can still bring home the bacon (well, not actually, I don’t eat pork). Anyway, I did get some work done. Read on for a list of things I published in September.
August is supposed to be the dog days of summer. But here I’ve got a picture of a donkey instead. I guess that’s because donkeys are hard workers, but the move slow, and that’s a pretty good visual metaphor for what August was like for me. For details, keep reading below the fold.