Yeah, I am really pissed! It was my goal to be as positive as possible on this blog. AND...It's hot and humid and I've gotten heat stoke twice already and I just came back from Seattle and I really miss it and July sales stinks almost as bad as January and I knew that the first year of business would be hard and I am used to working long, hard multi-tasking hours with little pay (wasn't I in non-profit?) Crap, I don't even have a salary to drown my sorrows in.
All the first year perils that comes with the territory - as I am often reminded.
So what set me off? Some asshole stole a Retreads wallet from the store yesterday - $53 dollars. Because $53 is a lot of money right now. And yet again I am reminded how human I am - how I am sometimes sinking with the sales, inventory, marketing, emails, updates, promotions, networking, budgets, trade shows, self-promotion, part-time jobs and now theft prevention.
In a nutshell, despondency.
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- Eva Khoury
- Earth Alley owner, Eva Khoury, returns to Baltimore after living in the Pacific Northwest – the home of eco-friendly - for several years. This latest move is just the most recent in a long history of travel. Some the places Eva has lived and worked include the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest as well as in Paris, France, Denmark and in New Zealand. Her roving feet have taken here to Europe, North Africa, the Middle-east, the Pacific Islands, Latin America, the Caribbean and most recently, Vietnam. These far-flung travels have left no doubt that we are all connected on this green globe and our choices affect more than just ourselves. As a community development professional, Eva assisted inner city communities start urban gardening programs. This endeavor led her to become certified as a Master Gardener and helped nurture a still growing (pun intended!) love for gardening and garden design. Eva has had her own landscape design business and taught classes in landscape design in Tacoma and Seattle. She is available for consultation if you have an area of your yard where you just don’t know what to do.