One day you’re twenty-eight-year-old young woman sitting in your shitty apartment in Prior Lake smoking cigarettes and tossing HTML For Dummies on the floor and the next you’re a forty-seven-year-old cranky old goat sitting in…
Posts tagged anniversary
That Decade Went By Quickly
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of getting laid off at The Nerdery*. I’ve been doing the Unemployment Boogaloo for ten years. How did this happen? Do you remember 2009? I look back on it fondly…
Day 7 of 200: 18 Years of IWillDare.com
Holy buckets! Eighteen years of this here website. EIGHTEEN YEARS. If IWillDare.com was a human she would vote in the next election (Erin Murphy! Angie Craig!). She’d probably be going off to a sensible state…
Leaving the Cube: 10 Years After Corporate America
Yesterday I was on the phone with JTo, who some of you may remember from my days at Hell, Inc. She was the boss of me for many years, although she was only my actual…
A Typewriter of One’s Own: On 17 Years of Blogging
On Monday, the actual date of IWillDare.com’s 17th anniversary, I only remembered the event for about 10 minutes over lunch. Then I got swept away in the Scaramucci news and freezing some green beans. You…
On Anniversaries & Other Assorted Updates
I stopped writing my application of the MN Artist Initiative Grant to come here and type words in this box instead. Applying for the grant can be overwhelming and so it’s best done in little…
Holy Shit, People, I Will Dare (.com) is 16 years old today!
Get a load of this, if my blog were a human, she could go take her driver’s license test today. And if she were like me she would totally ruin her 16th birthday by failing…
On the 15th Anniversary of I Will Dare (.com)
When I started iwilldare.com Bill Clinton was president. Of all the things that used to be in 2000, when I started this website, that’s the one that makes it feel the most aged. When I…
Today is I Will Dare’s 14th Anniversary!
And on this day back at the turn of the century (2000) I Will Dare (dot com, not the song) blinked into existence. I’m not feeling too wise or in the mood to pontificate on…
Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon: On the 13th Anniversary of I Will Dare
If my website were a child, it’s birth story would go something like this: I was working in customer service for a software company that made digital photography software. When not working at the software…