Updates! After taking an industrial sized bottle of Pledge to the dust that had collected on that long lost Favorites page, I added a “Dear Addison” section for your (okay, my) reading convenience. I had to peel myself off the floor when I realized I had to copy and paste the Dear Addison part seven [...]

But life is full of exceptions, now isn’t it? Sure wouldn’t be the first time I pretentiously turned my nose up at something only to find myself eventually embracing it. Facebook. Emoticons. Drinking on the weekdays. All kinds of stuff, really. Friday Maybe it was knowing that Saturday morning I would be donning the brightest, [...]

I really wanted to write a post yesterday. In fact, I drowned in the waters of Pinterest searching for some inspiration for you. But all I found were way too many drool-worthy graphic rugs for a fictitious home office in a fictitious home. So, totally productive, of course, just not very blog-worthy. Except that here [...]

I work from home. I only mention that again (and again and again and again) so that you don’t forget how awesome I am. Sometimes it can be hard to remember with all the time wasted on pictures of my dog and the disease-carrying insects he ingests. I made a list of all the things [...]

You’ll remember fondly, I’m sure, that I was teetering oh so close to the edge of wasting an ungodly amount of money on a correspondence course that was soon to expire. That bad boy expires Sunday, friends. Which, in Natalie Time, meant I had until shortly after 11 p.m. on Sunday to finish reading the [...]

I love having thirty people review and suggest edits for one sentence for an entire week. And then end up using the exact same sentence we all started with. The corporate world is goofy. And wasteful. But I get paid by the hour, so let’s revisit that semi-colon, shall we?

Meet my baby. It’s not exactly what my mother has been incessantly praying for over the last three years (which is almost cruel considering how we told her she had a grandson and then introduced her to an untrained, 6-week old Bryson). It’s the lovechild of some serious site envy, one incomparable web genius/friend and [...]

So here’s a true story. I just typed out my best 15 attempts at “hors d’oeuvre” and was so off every single time that spell check did not once rescue me with the correct spelling. Shortcut fail. I did get superb suggestions like devious and hourly, maybe hinting that I’m such a terrible speller I [...]

Mimic the noises your dog makes back to him to see if you can have a conversation. Show up without shoes. But with purple socks on. Pee with the door open. Proofread out loud. In character. Eat cereal at your desk. And chips and salsa. During the same lunch hour. Roll your eyes and laugh [...]

Did I mention that I’m freelancing full time? Yeah, that happened. Sorry if you didn’t get invited to the party, but you wouldn’t have come anyway. It was in God-forsaken Newport News. We added to our family. Her name is Tyra and she is a sparkly black 2011 Honda Civic and awesome and I love [...]