Me & My Toaster Oven

It’s a love-hate relationship, really. But when it started, it was all love.
My mother-in-law gave me our toaster oven for Christmas a few years ago…before we were married. All digital. Push a button, door opens like a microwave. Toasts. Bakes. Broils. Black. Stainless Steel. Beautiful. [...]

Career Changes

Before having children, I was a civil servant.
There seem to be two types of civil servants – underworked and overpaid, and overworked and underpaid. I was the latter.
I dreaded going to work. It was a dead end job. I had ended up in a situation where there was no way to move [...]