http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:14:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I'd gotten this post out for Monday but didn't realize that my server wasn't working right! So, let me take you back a few days on the tour and tell you what's coming Monday Nov 17 -- We were at Shauna's Life In Pain. I wrote about how people seem ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/11/19/more-book-tour-stops-you-dont-want-to-miss/ Earlier today I talked to a woman who attended my last interview about our book with Markell Steele. She's dealing with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. What she told me reminded me a little bit of the early stages of my journey. She's at a transition point in her career, which has ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/11/12/whatever-it-takes-to-find-health-and-balance/ The election is over.  Whew!  Now you can turn back to the business of reading about chronic illness and here are some sites to check out! Nuggets of info at each site on the appointed day! The Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! virtual book tour is happening. For ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/11/05/book-tour-offers-nuggets/ Are you finding that looking for a job when you live with a chronic illness is daunting, overwhelming, depressing . . . or a challenge that you feel ready to take on? This question popped into my head when I read Em's (chronicillnesssurvival) comment to Joan's last post,  (Disability leave caused ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/10/29/chronic-illness-helps-us-to-think-differently-about-work/ A couple of months ago I met a young woman at a party. She'd been out on disability for most of the year, and was slowly healing from surgery for something I couldn't even wrap my mind around. She was still feeling quite tender, but was out with her husband ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/10/23/disability-leave-caused-one-woman-to-re-evaluate-her-career/ Women Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend ! is delighted to announce its whirlwind national book tour. Join me at the kick-off event, Monday Nov. 3, at rhymeswithmigrain.com.   The tour closes on Friday Nov.21 at the ici experience . No, it's not Kansas and this isn't your parent's ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/10/16/the-kwg-virtual-book-tour-dont-miss-it/ Hi all, Rosalind and I are aware that we've not posted in almost 2 weeks. Rosalind had some personal matters to attend to last week - she's ok - and I've been swamped with a couple of extra projects, one planned and one not. So, though we hold you in ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/10/08/sometimes-working-women-need-breaks-too/ I read, with interest, an article in the September issue of More Magazine about a new book out for women who decided to take time off from their career (and yes, they had that choice) to raise their children. The author of this new book, The Comeback, chronicled the job-hunting ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/09/24/can-the-comeback-help-women-with-health-issues-return-to-the-workforce/ As Joan Rivers so famously said, "Can we talk?" Neither Joan nor I earn money from this blog. We each have other blogs, primarily directed toward our separate businesses and neither of us earns money - at least directly - from those blogs either. You might ask, so why ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/09/17/blogs-are-for-conversation/ To date, most of our interviews (at least the ones I've been a part of) have been pre-recorded events for broadcasting on Internet radio shows. On Thursday, September 25th, Markell Steele, career coach and founder of Futures in Motion, will interview me (Joan) about the most common questions that arise ... http://keepworkinggirlfriend.com/2008/09/11/career-coach-interviews-joan-friedlander-on-september-25th/