Meg Alcazar
@megoftheworld.bsky.social
Professional reader/arranger of words, non-practicing librarian, and serial comma lover. Recovering NYer, ex-expat of Istanbul & NZ in Durham, NC. Always thinking about travel.
Now three weeks without him, and maybe the hardest time so far. It’s a mix of new sharpness—things we won’t do, things I can’t ask him—and the heaviness that it doesn’t end with the memorial or going through his clothes, it doesn’t end at all.
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Now three weeks without him, and maybe the hardest time so far. It’s a mix of new sharpness—things we won’t do, things I can’t ask him—and the heaviness that it doesn’t end with the memorial or going through his clothes, it doesn’t end at all.
Spent some terrible time on LinkedIn, learning about how I need to "quantify" everything on my resume. Most of my job involves noticing things that no one else will see or care about unless I *don't* spot them and it ruins someone's experience. Is this anything?!
March 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Spent some terrible time on LinkedIn, learning about how I need to "quantify" everything on my resume. Most of my job involves noticing things that no one else will see or care about unless I *don't* spot them and it ruins someone's experience. Is this anything?!
Me, having to write a cover letter for a job: takes days, agonizes over every word and the very concept of a cover letter.
Me, seeing an opportunity to run for the board of a local bookstore: cranks out a candidate bio and headshot in ten minutes.
Me, seeing an opportunity to run for the board of a local bookstore: cranks out a candidate bio and headshot in ten minutes.
March 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Me, having to write a cover letter for a job: takes days, agonizes over every word and the very concept of a cover letter.
Me, seeing an opportunity to run for the board of a local bookstore: cranks out a candidate bio and headshot in ten minutes.
Me, seeing an opportunity to run for the board of a local bookstore: cranks out a candidate bio and headshot in ten minutes.
Jeers to getting a generic rejection to a dream job I applied for 8 weeks ago. Cheers to finding two minor errors in the large print edition of a book I just proofed (that were also in the final trade edition!). Hopefully this year I find a FT job that fits.
January 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Jeers to getting a generic rejection to a dream job I applied for 8 weeks ago. Cheers to finding two minor errors in the large print edition of a book I just proofed (that were also in the final trade edition!). Hopefully this year I find a FT job that fits.
After almost two weeks, the days are easier but at least once a day I think, “Yeah but where is the dog?” I watched her decline, saw her final breaths, understood what she was feeling, but still hard to believe she is just gone and not coming back. This gift from our neighbor helps.
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
After almost two weeks, the days are easier but at least once a day I think, “Yeah but where is the dog?” I watched her decline, saw her final breaths, understood what she was feeling, but still hard to believe she is just gone and not coming back. This gift from our neighbor helps.
Of course that was the day the bad morning got worse, and yesterday she went to the Good Girl Place. Grateful that were able to have Lap of Love come to our home so we could say goodbye together, but still absolutely awful. Missing our sweet Sunny so much, she was pure love.
January 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Of course that was the day the bad morning got worse, and yesterday she went to the Good Girl Place. Grateful that were able to have Lap of Love come to our home so we could say goodbye together, but still absolutely awful. Missing our sweet Sunny so much, she was pure love.
On the constant roller coaster that is having an old dying dog. In the morning, she refuses food and I sneak in a pill in milk or a spoon of baby food. By afternoon she has perked up, regained her appetite, even jumped on the couch. But is today the day the bad morning lasts all day?
January 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On the constant roller coaster that is having an old dying dog. In the morning, she refuses food and I sneak in a pill in milk or a spoon of baby food. By afternoon she has perked up, regained her appetite, even jumped on the couch. But is today the day the bad morning lasts all day?
Most of my freelance work is copy editing and proofreading travel articles and books, as well as novels for Penguin Random House. This year I got to write a chapter for Fodor’s guide to the Carolinas, which was an absolute joy to collect all my favorite places in the Triangle, Triad, and Charlotte.
November 15, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Most of my freelance work is copy editing and proofreading travel articles and books, as well as novels for Penguin Random House. This year I got to write a chapter for Fodor’s guide to the Carolinas, which was an absolute joy to collect all my favorite places in the Triangle, Triad, and Charlotte.