09.27.2003
“Falling down”, by Barbara Card Atkinson, is still another story of how hard things have become for many people who, not long ago, were counted as prosperous and successful in this country, and if you’re reading this, their story may cut pretty close to home. Atkinson’s description of the “underemployed” shows the inadequacy of reporting on unemployment statistics alone in trying to report on the health of our economy, and how little there is in place to help catch anyone who’s falling.
Before his current inability to be employed in his “desired capability,” Andrew worked at a software start-up. Prior to my scraping gum off the bottoms of chairs and reheating popcorn, I was a Web writer for a multimedia dot-com corporation. It’s been like this for 16 months, the two of us struggling to make ends meet, to emotionally and financially support ourselves and our two young children while battling self-pity and overwhelming panic.
more shey.net
09.26.2003: shey.networking: feed upgrade
Saw what the shey.net feed looked like on a PC using a random Mozilla Extension and were shocked… so we made some updates.
10.02.2003: toddler blog
“is it just me or are those martians on sesame street not the scariest puppets ever?”