03.09.07

My Columns Are Back!

Posted in Dawn's Life, Dawn's Writing at 6:23 pm by Dawn Miller

I have a new column out about our decision to have an “ours” baby. I’m glad that this was my first column after a long hiatus from writing. For three years I wrote bi-weekly columns on TheStepfamilyLife.com about my life as a stepmom.

But then my life got so crazy last year. I was working a very demanding job with a lot of stress and a horrible commute, writing other stuff on deadline (but not stepfamily stuff), and managing our business on the side. Not to mention juggling the needs of our family. When things got crazy column-writing was jettisoned. A few of my readers wondered if I got run over by a bus.

Each time I skipped another week, I obsessively re-arranged the publishing schedule in my palm pilot. I kept promising myself I would get back to it and pick it up again. But time went by - and my silence lasted a long time - more than six months actually. And all that time I felt like something was really missing from my life.

And then something changed. I decided I needed more balance in my life. Our business is doing well - really well. So I quit my high-stress job three blocks from the White House. Bye bye - stress, managing personnel, pantyhose, and office politics. My goodbye lunch at the office was last week, and I was definitely the happiest person in attendance, save my husband, who was overjoyed to see me chuck the rat race.

Now every morning I wake up - open the window in my little office to let the sun shine in - make some coffee and start my day. And it feels fantastic.

I’m back - and on a regular writing schedule. A new column will be out this coming Monday.

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