Jill17With reading, and everything else, I seem to go through spurts. I’ll get all excited about reading, purchase and download a lot of books, read them, and then all of a sudden I stop for a while. Then a few months will go by where I won’t read at all but it will pass and I’ll start again. I’m not a steady and constant reader I guess. I go through spurts.

It’s the same with most anything else I enjoy. I do it with writing and I do it with blogging. I don’t know why this happens, where I take interest and go at it hard and heavy and then it just stops all of a sudden, for no apparent reason. But I don’t worry, because I know it always comes back again.

So I am back on a reading jag. It’s time. It’s been a few months since I picked up a book so I know I am due for a reading binge. Plus, I blame the movie, The Great Gatsby, too. It has made me want to take another stab at the book. And so I am.

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JillSometimes I just want to be small. This feeling normally comes on when I get out of my scheduled routine. Or at least this time I think that is the case.

I just spent two full days with my 18-year old daughter. This was a good thing. She and I went down to Oxford, Alabama for her high school golf team sub state qualifying round. I enjoyed our time together immensely but it also meant I had to take a day off of work; Monday. I’ve taken days off of work before for various reasons and most of the time it is no big deal but for some reason this one was apparently. I didn’t notice it, though, until this morning when I had to come back into the office.

It wasn’t a feeling of dread, gloom, and doom or anything like that. It was just a weird feeling. Trying to get back into the swing of the work force mentality and schedule was, well, aimless and empty. Perhaps I left my heart with my daughter and back on the golf course this morning?

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2012-11-17 18.58.00Yes, I changed the theme again to this blog. It’s been a while since I’ve been on this blog. I’ve been spending all of my time over at Girl Gadabout lately.

This blog will remain my personal blog and where I can come in and blog about other things. I have had a few topics I’ve been wanting to blog about but wanted to be able to just write it and not have to worry about images and other things. I wanted a straight, old-fashioned blog format again for this site. So here it is. Easy and no nonsense.

Of course, right now I can’t remember any of the topics I wanted to blog about. I need to make sure this blog isn’t connected to any of the social media outlets first and then maybe let it sit for a few more days.

Having a blog with my name in it and addition to actually knowing the people who have read this blog before makes me want to open another anonymous blog all over again and start fresh. Heh.

I can be myself anonymously.


Jill10Um, yeah. Do you like that headline? I don’t. But it is where I find myself with three blogs. I don’t know why I do this, time and time again. I get bored with one, then I think I want to start a new one with a new niche, then I get bored … again.

The vicious cycle of flailing around must stop. At least I’ve finally narrowed it down to two. Yes, I still have three but I hardly and rarely put anything over at The Editorialist Blog. I still like the design and layout and functionality but the content feels forced.

So this leaves Girl Gadabout and Carol Ann Marks (CAM). I have had CAM for a very long time. In fact, I just moved Carol Marks Online (CMO) over to CAM. I had Carol Marks Online longer than any of them but didn’t want the carolmarksonline.com domain anymore so I had purchased my full name instead for the blog and moved CMO over to CAM.

I also have Girl Gadabout. I started Girl Gadabout sort of as a more specific blog but now I am realizing that that’s not working out too well either. The thought behind Girl Gadabout was to create a fun blog where I would write about events and happenings around Huntsville, or take day trips to neighboring cities and write about that experience. I would also do local business interviews, maybe review products here and there. But mainly I wanted Girl Gadabout to be about TRAVEL. Even if that meant traveling around town and to other close-by cities. This meant I could keep the CAM blog just as a personal one.

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Jill11This week has been exciting. I’ve moved into a new office at work. I gave up my window office for a smaller office that is located toward the back of the building and with no windows. It is much cooler back here in my new space. When I was up front in that office with windows, 1) I couldn’t enjoy the view because of the way my furniture was situated. My back was to the windows and the furniture could not be re-arranged into any other format, and 2) those windows made my office so HOT! Yes, even in the winter time. In the summer it was excruciating.

But I didn’t move just because of the constant drip of sweat. I also moved because I am in a new role at my place of employment. I am so excited about my new role but also nervous. Because even though it is doing something I am more knowledgeable in and is my passion, what if I mess it up? I would be devastated but not just for myself, for our clients as well. Now that I am getting paid for something I love doing, well, it puts a whole new spin on things. So I am trying to be extra cautious and I’m proceeding with circumspect ambition.

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Jill5Good morning my little love bunnies. How are you enjoying this first day of daylight saving time? It is not my most favorite time or season either. All this sunshine can’t be good for you. Oh pipe down, I am teasing. Well, I am teasing about the sunshine not being good for you, I am serious about this not being my favorite time of the year. But this is not why I am here on the blog today.

I am here because I’ve been neglecting the blog. Not that anyone has noticed. Heh. :) However, I’ve only neglected the blog due to good things. It’s not because I’ve been bummed out or anything. I’ve actually been busy. I’ve even noticed my lack of posting to Facebook too. Even my 140 character Twitter outbursts have been limited. It’s all good.

It’s funny, over the last month or so I’ve been handed fantastic great news right along with horrid dreadful information. Two different entirely things and situations. And I’m good with all of it. I wish I could talk more about these things in detail, because I really want to tell you, but I also feel I should keep quiet and only share it with the people who need to know.

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