February 2010

When Is a Dining Room Not a Dining Room?

February 8, 2010 Life

We’re doing it again. In preparation for having a small home dojo in conjunction with our new rented room at a local church, we’ll be moving our rooms around. Have you ever done this? It’s something I indulge in every now and then; it helps cure that stagnant feeling I get when I’ve been living [...]

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[TSS] Reducing My Stacks of Books: Ideas Needed

February 7, 2010 Books and Reading

One of the things my husband and I have been planning is downsizing our home once our daughter is in university next year; when that happens, it will be just my husband and I, and our six-year-old, and our current house is really too big for just the three of us. So we’ve decided to [...]

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Shirley Valentine

February 6, 2010 Movies

Shirley Valentine is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watched it again last night, and, as always, came away from it feeling uplifted – time hasn’t dated the movie at all, perhaps because it’s about something that’s simply timeless. On its surface, the movie (and the award-winning play from which the movie [...]

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Me and Social Media Marketing

February 5, 2010 Life

Sounds like a song, doesn’t it? So, with my, uh, vast knowledge of social media, I appear to have been promoted to the role of Social Media Marketing Director for my husband’s martial arts dojo. (Fine. I did promote myself, but someone had to.) One of our intentions, in light of recent changes we’ve decided [...]

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“Snip” – And There Go 33,000 Words …

February 4, 2010 Writing

Ouch. I did my readthrough of WAVERLEY yesterday. I wasn’t entranced by the opening chapter, which will need a thorough re-write and in-depth trimming. The rest of the beginning chapters were good for a first draft. I even had some nice character building going on. It was all a fairly good match to the movie [...]

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Writing Update: WAVERLEY and NANTUCKET

February 3, 2010 Writing

It has been a very long while since I last sat down to work on WAVERLEY, my current WIP. First it was the workload over the holidays – I tried, but I just didn’t have the energy to write on top of meeting all those deadlines. Then, during the past three weeks (my recuperation phase, [...]

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Time Management Games: A Major Misnomer

February 2, 2010 Life

I recently stumbled into a whole series of games called “time management games”, a name which I think is terribly, terribly misleading. “Time suck games” is more like it. Let me just say, none of these games have helped me with my time management issues, although they’ve been quite good at adding to my time [...]

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Reading My First Nora Roberts

February 1, 2010 Books and Reading

Nora Roberts is such a prolific author, but I’ve never read a Nora Roberts novel before. It’s partly because I always think of her as a romance writer (although I haven’t read any of her J.D. Robb mysteries, either – not sure why that is); while I do enjoy the occasional romance, I prefer romance [...]

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