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My only baby (one's allowed to call their child baby the entire life in the south) started 7th grade - at home, for now - just this last week.

To make it a bit more fun, between my stuff that I do, I am having her teach me her lessons, after reviewing them herself. It's a great way to learn.

I will admit without insecurity, that some of the math I have forgotten and wouldn't know how to do it without her help.

She's had a tough six months, as we all have, but it's tough being 12 anyway, and will be 13 in exactly a month. Amazing.

Instead of longing for days when she was 4 or the first day of kindergarten, I make a point to love every single day right now. She will be 24 in a the blink of an eye.

I have already started to teach her to drive. No, not touching anything or operating the vehicle, only pointing out things to watch, and various dangers, etc. so she gets used to looking for the same.

I have been around a lot of girls/women that prefer not to drive. If she grows up that way, it is her choice. But she is absolutely going to know how to drive VERY well for those times she needs to.

6th month anniversary of making an actual real living writing on the net. Not luxury living but not poverty. I still do some law but only to keep skills.

I enjoy it. It's the first job where it doesn't feel like work.

There are millions that would claw their own eyes out for the type that I'm doing, and so I'm grateful for the chance.

The future of this all depends on site viability, advertising, FB being Satanic (not directing traffic to the site) but given the visibility it makes it more likely to move on to somethig similar if site has troubles. If the site's fine, I'm more than fine as ... they like me. So I'm grateful for the chance, and marking a half year sort of proves it was no fluke.

Sorry for self-absorbed BS but, well, sometimes it's okay to say "good job" to oneself.

Is it a site that we can see?

I haven't seen your byline on Politizoom lately, but I like Ursula's writing a lot. She has some good insights.

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Originally Posted by willandi

Is it a site that we can see?

I haven't seen your byline on Politizoom lately, but I like Ursula's writing a lot. She has some good insights.

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Yeah, I was recruited from Zoom and was allowed to offer them to publish my stuff, too. But, there were financial issues for them and I told them to go fly. I still have total editorial freedom, which is such a luxury, but one can't keep the business side going enough just doing the serious analysis I was doing at Zoom. Sometimes the more salacious stuff is a bit embarrassing but it's a sad reality that those are the ones that get 250K views versus 10K for others, and so ... it just has to be a balance.

So I try 1/3 serious analysis, 1/3 total salacious stuff, 1/3 humor - sometimes it works. But it is different that what you're used to. I still try to slide a serious little angle even on silly stories, just hidden. But it's a fantastic position that I'm very grateful for, especially with COVID and daughter schooling from home, it is just perfect.

https://www.politicalflare.com/

I should note that COVID is just hammering even businesses like us, it's not just retail and movies, travel. Ad rates went way down, we went to 1/4 staff, let 75% go, so again I am lucky but people should know that COVID is really impacting the economy in ways one wouldn't normally think.

Plus, I literally don't take a day off, 30 days a month, 7 a week. But I could take a weekend if I was traveling or something but if home, then we've got to put up some stuff every day. That's not that hard really, but it's just another reality.