From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Do You Keep a Journal?

February 27, 2010 Writing

I love to write, but I’ve never been good at keeping a journal.
On the other hand, I’ve had some success with what I call “specialty” journals.
For example, I kept a gratitude journal the year after my divorce (and it was very, very helpful).
I’ve also worked on a few art journals, and one year I kept [...]

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My Magazine Dilemma

February 25, 2010 Books and Reading

If you’ve been following along here at Ms. Bookish the past month or so, you know that we’ve been spending a lot of time decluttering. Not that we’ve been all that successful, because while our downstairs is beautiful and serene and almost clutter-free, all we really did is shove everything into boxes and move it [...]

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In the Middle Of: The Book of Tomorrow, by Cecelia Ahern

February 24, 2010 Books and Reading

I always have four to five books “on the go” at any given moment, some of which I admit I don’t actually finish.
But I’m pretty sure I’m going to finish The Book of Tomorrow, by Cecelia Ahern (the author of P.S. I Love You). I found the beginning slow to start, with a lot [...]

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The Energy of a Room

February 23, 2010 Life

Home Dojo/Meditation Room
With all the room flipping we’ve been doing, I’ve been thinking about how rooms have their own individual “feel” to them.
Has this ever happened to you? You walk into a gorgeously decorated room, something beautiful enough to grace the covers of a home decorating magazine – and standing there, surrounded by all [...]

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No More Wasted Space: Some Room-Flipping Results!

February 18, 2010 Life

We are extremely pleased with our recent round of room flipping: we’ve created a beautiful dining room from wasted space!
I wish I’d thought to take pictures of the “before”. This truly was a “nothing” space (it’s the space at the bottom of the stairs, right outside the kitchen), and so we weren’t particularly inclined to [...]

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From the Haphazard Twitter Files of Ms. Bookish (No. 2)

February 16, 2010 Twitter Files

Welcome to my not-so-regular feature, From the Haphazard Twitter Files of Ms. Bookish (and yes, the title is a tribute to a one of my favorite books, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg).
I recently discovered that the Tweetdeck iPhone app now lets me email tweets to myself without leaving [...]

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Chinese New Year

February 14, 2010 Life

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
When I was younger, I thought of Chinese New Year more as “red envelope time!”, because my parents’ friends would give me red envelopes containing money as part of the New Year celebrations.
So I thought a picture of a red envelope would be a fitting accompaniment to this post!
It’s the Year [...]

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Encouraging Your Children to Read

February 11, 2010 Blogging and Blog Events

I was just over at Molly’s blog, and I really enjoyed reading her post answering today’s Booking Through Thursday question:
How can you encourage a non-reading child to read? What about a teen-ager? Would you require books to be read in the hopes that they would enjoy them once they got into them, or offer incentives, [...]

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Not Sweating the Small Stuff

February 10, 2010 Life

Thanks to a nice, long talk with a good friend of mine (she also does this professionally, if you’re interested in having a session to clear up obstacles in your life – I highly recommend her facilitation sessions), I find myself finally clear of the listlessness and lethargy that has challenged me for most of [...]

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Blogging To-Do List

February 9, 2010 Blogging and Blog Events

Week 1’s assignment for the 2010 Blog Improvement Project is to create a blogging to-do list.
While I’m not a big fan of to-do lists, I like the idea of this one because there’s no time element attached to it. I think what I’m most resistant to, when it comes to to-do lists, is the whole [...]

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