This is Post 3 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge.
Looking forward is hard to do right now, I’ll be honest. There are a lot of things I would like to do and accomplish, but at the same time my emotional bandwidth is short. Between dealing witth the pandemic and adding a fifth small person to the mix, it hasn’t been easy and I’ve been feeling pretty tired. The weight of the pandemic is crushingly heavy as there are always so many decisions to be made with so much riding on each decision.
That said, there are definitely things I want to accomplish going forward – namely publishing my fiction and more of my poetry and publishing homeschooling curriculum that provides a box/open and go curriculum for parents who want to homeschool kids with asynchronous development. How awesome would it be to be able to customize curriculum while also having an open and go format for it?
I’d also really love to get back to working with J.B. Dondolo as well as start my own nonprofit. My nonprofit goal is to start an organization that aids women with getting on their feet again once they are safe – whether that means gaining an education or finding childcare so they can work or even getting help with finding safe and affordable housing.
I’d also love to have my blogs running smoothly and making solid money each month. It would be great to have those getting posts on a regular basis. I’m thinking I will shut down the custom clothing part of Ronda B. Boutique and revert back to Ronda B. Handmade being a blog showing off what I’ve sewn. I may even wrap it back up in Wining Wife, which is where I was originally posting.
Finally, I want to publish a magazine and have a publishing company of my own. It’s my dream to be able to hire a staff.
What do you see when you look forward?
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Hello there, and welcome to my page! I have been working as a full-time freelance writer and editor since 2008 when I decided that while I rather enjoyed philosophy, the Ph.D. program I was in was not a good fit for my life goals. Since then, I have published many papers and articles, started two blogs, worked as a senior editor for a magazine, served on the board of a start-up non-profit organization, and walked across fire.
I strongly believe that it is important to work to make the world a better place – one project at a time. I’ve worked with Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program to construct living quarters for those in need, written content for Stonewall Alliance, and edited the newsletter for my local natural foods cooperative. One of the blogs I founded, Activism My Way is dedicated to helping people get involved with causes they feel passionate about.
Although my academic background is in philosophy and social and political theory, my heart has always been in writing fiction and poetry. I have a novel in progress, and I am working on putting together a collection of short stories to share with readers. I also worked as part of a creative team on a project with a hip hop artist that involved world-building and creating an amazing back story to a concept album. I have worked with several authors to edit their novels (as well as dissertations, children’s books, journal articles, and non-fiction projects).
Non-fiction topics I have written about include pop culture and philosophy, project management, business startups and management, insurance, technology, and much more. I also have created web content for a wide variety of clients (ranging from gas station owners to hotels to lawyers), and I’ve had an opportunity to interview some amazing people (Michele May, Kevin Sorbo, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Mark Victor Hansen to name only a few). Needless to say, I love what I do.
I enjoy photography, and my subjects these days are usually my children as well as food, beverages, craft projects, and other such things for my blog, Wining Wife™. My favorite subjects are landscapes, nature (particularly clouds, flowers, and trees), and architecture.
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