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A Bookworm Declutters

June 2, 2011 Books and Reading

We have started the process of decluttering our house, in anticipation of putting it up for sale sometime this summer – and I have to say this: Decluttering is a painful process! Painful especially when it comes to my books. Over the past 20 years, I have amassed many, many books. Looking at the stacks [...]

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May Intentions: Tackling Procrastination

May 1, 2011 Life

Photo credit: Darren Hester When I first started writing this post in my mind, I filled it with the wide range of intentions I have for this month. And then I realized something. Every single one of my intentions has to do with tackling procrastination. I am, I confess, a Master Procrastinator. My main dilemma? [...]

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R to Z: It’s a Wrap!

April 27, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

Blogging challenges aren’t really my thing, but I have absolutely no regrets about doing the A to Z Challenge. For one thing, I discovered the magical way writing prompts work. And I also found some new blogging and writing friends along the way. For my wrap-up post, I thought I’d take a look back at [...]

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Saturday Snapshot: N is for Nostalgia

April 16, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

They were just so adorable back then. And they’ve stayed adorable throughout the years. This September, both my two older kids will be in university. It feels a little strange; I often hear people say, “It feels like it was just yesterday” and it seems like such a cliché thing to say. Yet … it’s [...]

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C is for Catch-up: Daughter, Early Rising and Fun (and that takes care of D, E & F)

April 8, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

If you take a peek at the latest posts by those participating in the A to Z Challenge, you’ll see a lot of “F” posts today. As I mentioned, yes, I am woefully behind. But Joe gave me some great advice yesterday – he suggested doing a series of small posts to get right back [...]

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Prom Dress Shopping!

March 20, 2011 Life

Yes, that’s right. I went prom dress shopping last week. The last time I went prom dress shopping, I was 18. Let’s just say a handful of years have passed by since then, and leave it at that, shall we? My daughter and I made a date to go into the city last Wednesday, during [...]

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… And So the Week’s Slipped By

March 18, 2011 Life

I’m sitting here remembering what things were like just a couple of months ago. That’s right, back when I was in deadline hell, and had so few moments to call my own, I had to multi-task the basic necessities of life (and I’ll just say here, it’s really hard to eat your lunch while you’re [...]

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Inspiration Monday: Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2011 Life

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! According to my “posting schedule”, today is Inspiration Monday, and I’m thinking that love and inspiration go hand in hand quite nicely (well, I don’t actually have a “posting schedule” – I just like the idea of it!). We celebrated on Friday evening, with a “family” Valentine Day’s dinner at a [...]

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Inspiration Monday: Love, Prompts and Comments

January 10, 2011 Creativity

I’ve been thinking a lot about inspiration lately. And since this is January, the month of fresh starts, I’m coming up with a lot of new intentions. One of these intentions is living an inspired life. I love feeling inspired; too often inspiration tends to come when I’m deep in deadlines (like I am this [...]

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[TSS] My Year of Creativity

January 2, 2011 Books and Reading

I’m not one to make resolutions – they just don’t work for me. And perhaps it’s a matter of semantics; “resolutions” and “resolve” have a hard-edged feel for me, and I much prefer the softer ease of “intention”. So at the beginning of each new year, I like to make some general intentions for the [...]

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