by Terra Osterling | Nov 17, 2023 | Storytelling
“Well, hello there. Have you been waiting long?” “Oh, just almost two years.” “Wow. Has it been that long?” Ummmm….yep. It has been almost two years since I last posted to my blog. Ooops? To be fair, my last post here (February 2022) coincides with when I launched my...
by Terra Osterling | Feb 25, 2022 | Business of Freelance Writing, Uncategorized
– Me, November 15, 2010 Those words opened my first blog post. If ever a life had a turning point, for me it was then. That post kicked off a run of publishing a weekly blog post for a full three years. (Count ‘em – that’s 156 consecutive weeks, 156 posts. And they’re...
by Terra Osterling | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nearly 40 years ago, I was a small, tomboyish fifth-grader. (Shout out to my GenXers!). This was an era when a 10 year old was still very much a kid. I certainly was. My school, Walt Disney Elementary School (for real), still held recess at lunchtime, but the...
by Terra Osterling | Oct 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
My mom died last week. I won’t talk here about how she died, but I do want to talk about how she lived. These are the remarks I made during her remembrance: My mother, Joanne, was all about that bling. Anything and everything shiny. Her hair, her makeup, her...
by Terra Osterling | Mar 15, 2021 | Experiences, Game-changers, Uncategorized
Prologue: As of this writing, 2.65 million people worldwide have died of Covid-19. Deaths in the United States number more than half a million. There are millions more who survived the virus. And millions more who have lost everything, but their life, to the shutdown....