It’s all about me
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I recently heard a story about an art teacher who told his students on the first day of class that there were two ways to earn an “A”. One way was to make one perfect pot, the other was to make fifty pots. Now, we’ve all been (or may still be) lazy, know-it-all, shortcut takers and…
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Just kidding. Check out any headline or click-bait and you’ll see numbers attached. People seem to like when things are broken down into bite-sized chunks. And numbered. But 467? Seriously? That’s crazy. I’m pretty sure a professional could describe brain surgery or rocket science in that many steps. That’s not advice, that’s one more distraction.…
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The Liebster Award is a peer award for Bloggers by Bloggers. I’m proud to be kicking off my new year with a nomination! Thank you Caffeinated Writer, Danielle! The Liebster Award recognizes blogs with less than a 1000 followers and strives to increase collaboration and encourage readership. It’s like that old Faberge Organic Shampoo Commercial, you tell…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! And welcome to 2016. In light of the new year, I’d like to suggest a few things we leave behind. I’m not sure when (or why) we decided to get so familiar with bodily excretions, but I think it’d be good to leave the expressions, “I threw up a little in my…
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Do you have one? I have one. (I have two.) I bet you have one. How could you not? I don’t care how organized and OCD you are, some stuff is unorganizable. “A place for everything and everything in it’s place”, right? Right. (chuckle, eye roll) It’s not a personal observation or criticism, honest, it’s…
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Aging brings repetition. Sure, that might reference your elderly relative and that one story that gets repeated every time you’re together. It also might reference how many times you enter a room not sure why. It could also simply be the number of times you’ve done something you’ve done before. The older we get, the more things do we do on…
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Obviously not everyone got the “Not Now, it’s NaNo” memo. Including me. Barring things I had already committed to… Book Club, In Print, Prompt Club, Bunco, a lunch date, a dental appointment, a surprise party, and those annual November things like birthdays and Thanksgiving, I had vowed to just say no. “I won’t volunteer, I won’t commit to…
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Well, will you lookit that! I posted a proactive blog one day and the very next day I’m posting progress! I can happily check “Stop @ Cemetery” off my Cup List. On my way home from Rockford yesterday, I slowed upon approach, flicked on my blinker, and pulled into the short drive of the nameless cemetery…
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There are a lot of things I want to do before I die. My “Bucket List” is quite long. Things like European travel, book publication, and being animated are at the top, but there are a lot of little things I want to do, too. Smaller things. Things that make the daily to-do list but don’t seem…
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