I used to own and operate a small business management firm and one of the services we offered was bookkeeping and taxes.  I no longer outsource that kind of work, except to a few select clients, but I do the accounting and taxes for our businesses along with our personal taxes.  This includes our farm and my freelance writing.

Generally, I am really good about keeping up on my bookkeeping work.  I’ve found, logically, that entering transactions once per month into my bookkeeping softward makes it very easy to finalize it at the end of the year for tax season.  Unfortunately this year is a little different.  I fell behind early in the year last year and, well, it’s biting me in the butt right now.  In addition to my regular workload I now have to go back through all of last year’s transactions and enter them in.  Thankfully, I am very quick at data entry but it’s one more task on my plate that I really don’t need right now.

While I’m working on these tasks, I’ve managed to write a few tax-related articles for a client of mine.  www.Efiletaxreturns.com is an online e-file tax site and their blog has posted six of my informative articles related to your personal income taxes, including credits, what to watch out for, and how to estimate and track your tax return.  I invite you to take a look at the efiletaxreturns.com blog and let me know what you think of the articles.

So, why “From Behind the Laptop?”  Well, it’s really where many of my most random thoughts and ideas generate from – sitting behind my laptop.   Actually, I guess I could have called it “From Within the Shower” but that probably wouldn’t have sounded as appropriate.

As I continue to work as a farmer and freelance writer, there will more than likely be a wide variety of posts on this blog.  Our farm blog is very, well, farm related and is intended for our customers to be able to follow along with what’s going on around our place.  Random rants probably wouldn’t be appreciated there.  So, I’ve created a space where I can do that.  Of course, this blog is linked to my author website and is a perfect way to show off my different writing styles.  So, yes, this blog is very self-serving.  But isn’t every blog?

~Karin