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Another dream | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? New title →. August 6, 2013. This was supposed to post in March but didn’t go through for some reason. I had another dream about my dad. No appearance this time. It’s last December, and my mom and I are at the home of my parents’ across-the-street neighbor. It’s him, but for some reason he’s a doctor who commutes to Kansas City, which he admits is crazy (um, yeah, from Texas, it is). This entry was posted in grief. New title →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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One year! | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Sleep update: Getting a little better. Thoughts on grief →. March 6, 2012. I can’t believe my baby is already one. I wish I’d found more time over the past 12 months to blog more, or at least journal his progress. He’s hardly a baby anymore. Every day he looks more like a “kid” and he literally does something new each week. Nursing is something I feel very passionately about now. I am so encouraged to see my friends having success as well. I feel lik...The n...
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Thoughts on grief | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? February 5, 2013. It has been so long since I posted anything. I still think about this blog, but I feel like I never have time to sit down and write anything. I can’t focus with a wild toddler at my feet! We parted on good terms, and I am eternally grateful for that and cling to that. And the grief just compounded on itself. Almost every day. It’s usually in the car on the way home from work. Why then? In general, I’m just exhausted. Too tired to take Josia...
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New title | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Joelle’s birth story →. August 6, 2013. I don’t write much anymore, but I just wanted to give a quick update. I changed the title of my site. Yes, at 40 hours per week in the newsroom I am still the “duchess of deadline,” but I feel like “second-shift mom” more accurately describes who I am now. Still putting the newspaper to bed instead of my kid. Hey, that should be my tag line…. Still grieving my dad. Wonder if it will ever get better. Even without leaps,...
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second-shift mom | baby days, newsprint nights | Page 2
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Newer posts →. Sleep update: Getting a little better. October 15, 2011. Quick update, since it’s late and I should be sleeping since baby is sleeping…. He is doing better. Usually he manages one longer stretch per night of 2-3 hours. He is slightly easier to calm back to sleep without picking him up, and he fights it less when I pick him up and just rock without nursing. There was a brief teething period where he was waking up every hour again. No fun. As I ...
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FAQ | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Here are some questions relevant to the life of a sports copy editor:. So, do you do writeups of all the games? No But I do check facts, write headlines, correct errors, design pages, cut stories when they are too long, decide what pages the stories will go on, post breaking news to the Web site and harass writers when they miss deadline. (And we don’t call them “writeups”.). But you get in free when you go, right? No, not when I’m going as a fan. Well, I tr...
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Turning point? | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Bad dreams →. February 7, 2013. Tonight, on the way home from work, something very important. I thought about my dad and smiled. Like really, truly smiled. Maybe that last post was more cathartic than I thought. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bad dreams →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Joelle’s birth story | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? Joelle’s birth story. May 6, 2014. Here is Joelle’s birth story, written so I don’t forget any of the wonderful details. And there’s a lot of details. This birth went completely med-free (by choice). I still can’t believe I did it. I have to think back to that night’s events and double-check sometimes because it doesn’t seem real. I went to my 40 week appointment on my due date, Friday, April 11. My doctor suggested scheduling an induction in case baby g...
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What’s the point? | second-shift mom
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Baby days, newsprint nights. What’s the point? What’s the point? This blog is basically from the point of view of a sports copy editor. Here, posts about grammar, sports and the journalism industry can mingle in peace. (Posts about severe weather and my pictures of it have been known to appear here, too.). Last of all, I Googled high and low for a sports-copy-editing blog written by a woman and couldn’t find one. So I made one. For my LinkedIn profile. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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