Wow! Has it really been more than two months since I made an entry here??

One of the purported benefits of being a Virtual Assistant is that you can travel anywhere and remain in touch with clients and even work while away from the office. I’ve been on the road A LOT these last two months, but found that when life events take center stage, working while on the road takes a dive.

Here’s what we had going since April: a dear family member reached the last days of his life on this earth, youngest son caught the attention of major league baseball scouts AND graduated from high school, and we became a grandparent for the second time. All of the above meant travel back and forth to Phoenix once or twice a week culminating in a road trip after the MLB New Player Draft was over on June 8.

As I write this, listening to my husband talking to our new little guy Aiden downstairs (here at our son’s home in Gilroy, CA), I’m pondering the work-on-the-road idea further. Am I still a believer? Yes, you can definitely work anywhere as a virtual assistant. Can I easily combine work and managing son’s contacts with the professional baseball world, help son keep that all in perspective, and spend quality time assisting new parents with the day-to-day workload that becoming parents entails? Maybe not! And what about when someone you care for deeply passes away? Is the shop always open and should it be? No, definitely not.

In the future, in the face of life altering events in my family, I’ll probably close up shop for awhile and not even pretend to be able to work until things settle down again.

In the near term, I’m going to have to get back to work and blogging now