Joanne Tombrakos

Time To Reinvent Warning Sign #2

You start to hyperventilate when you get within three blocks of the office. It is the only time you hyperventilate.

The Day The Virus Attacked

I had feared this might happen from the day I began to rely on my computer for my work, the day I no longer had an IT department down the hall to support me. But like so many illnesses I walked around holding tight to the belief it would never happen to me. I paid […]

Time To Reinvent: Warning Sign #1

You catch a glimpse of this really angry face. Her forehead is creased. Her eyes look like tiny daggers are about to shoot out. You can see her teeth clenching even though her lips are sealed shut. You wonder what’s got her so twisted. Could she really not like her job that much? You feel […]

Is Reinvention A Girl Thing?

I keep wondering whether this whole concept of reinventing our lives is something women are more predisposed to than men. Yes, men change. Yes, I know men who have tossed the corporate hat aside for entrepreneurship. But it seems to me that with men it is more of an evolution as opposed to complete reinvention. […]

I am a Crazy Deranged Fool too!!

This arrived in my email this morning. It says it all. I am a crazy deranged fool. That is how I have been feeling lately. Crazy. Deranged. Foolish. Making myself bad for it. That is until I got this cartoon and the accompany prose. Then I remembered why I feel this way and how happy […]

Quit The Job. Move To Italy

Perhaps you’ve had this dream. Of packing it all up. Quitting the job. Selling the house. Moving someplace far, far away. Halfway To Each Other is a story of a couple who did just that. The author, Susan Pohlman and her husband decided on a whim while vacationing in Italy to leave LA. Maybe not […]