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Create Your Personal Almanac

January 27, 2011

I like to pick up The Farmer’s Almanac each year. I’m not a farmer, not even a heavy gardener. I just enjoy the articles, and the pictures. A few years ago we got a Canadian Almanac from the magazine, Harrowsmith Country Life. So this is the one I pick up now. Create a personal almanac, [...]

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Terrifically, Terribly Tardy

January 23, 2011

Being late is all kind of relative. My sister is a small business woman. When we meet for coffee/ tea (which isn’t often) I don’t ask for a precise time. I ask for an approximate hour. This is so I can be there on time, arrange my day, figuring in the bus schedule. She needs [...]

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How Do you Want to Write?

January 17, 2011

When you run dry on ideas to write about try thinking of your format or style instead. Work from another direction. When writing a blog entry, a personal essay in essence, you can write it free form, traditional, human interest, pet peeve, editorial, debate or be poetic in style. Free Form – Writing without a [...]

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New Year Resolutions

December 23, 2010

It’s been awhile since I wrote any New Year’s resolutions. But, in the spirit of trying to get organized, turning over a new leaf and setting some goals for myself, I’m going to give it a try. I am only going to make three resolutions: I will be more physically active, exercise or just getting [...]

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Don’t Let your Blog Tags get you Down

December 22, 2010

Tags are getting me down. I spent time working on my categories and have them pretty good. Only pretty good. In the case of tags it is a massive mess. I want/ need something that will auto suggest tags for me. Rather than me trying to weed out a few from the huge list and [...]

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Are Tags and Categories Too Much Work?

October 5, 2010

With regularly keeping this blog, moving an old blog onto WordPress from Blogger as well as starting a new blog, I’m finding the biggest amount of work is from tags and categories. Even this blog which is my most established and perfected (not perfect but given the most labour of the labour of my love) [...]

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Moving into the Maze

August 13, 2009

Below is my description of our last move from one town to another. I’ve moved a lot, mostly in Ontario. Twice to another country, though one was only for a few months. Change is not easy and it’s a real pain when you have to change almost everything and carry it in heavy boxes too. [...]

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Spring Forth and Unclutter Yourself from Paper Pile Ups

January 15, 2009

It takes no real effort to build up a paper clutter. I’m famous, infamous really, for it. Once it gets built up getting rid of that clutter is difficult. You can read about organization and buy a nice pen catcher from the Dollar Store but… you’re left with having to actually sort through all your [...]

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Spy On Yourself

December 27, 2008

We all procrastinate about something. Even those people who always seem so exceptionally organized and on top of everything have something they are putting off. Whatever your reason for procrastinating (time, energy, lack of inspiration or just not wanting to do it) the one thing we all know is that it has to get done [...]

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New Idea for Uncluttering

December 3, 2008

The next thing someone needs to invent is a sidebar or widget that lets you list all your webrings, blogrolls and other groups you have joined in one widget which you stick on your sidebar instead of all those individual blogrolls, webrings, widgets and graphic linkbacks. I see it being something like the widget for [...]

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Room to Write

October 19, 2008

Think of one kind of annoying day to day kind of task which irritates you about writing. For me it is just making myself stop all the other hundred little things I could be doing and settle down to start the writing project. Or, I could say the most aggravating thing is having a ton [...]

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It Takes a Village

January 16, 2008

Imagine your own village. How would you organize the town, the services, the streets, the shops, the houses and the industrial section. Don’t forget trains, planes and buses and all the forms of communication and power and water resources. Then there is all the entertainment and spiritual and parks and recreation. Set up your village [...]

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Getting Ideas

June 18, 2007

How do you get ideas? It’s not like you sit down in front of your computer and automatically you know what you are going to write about and how you are going to write it. Not each and every time anyway. There is some planning and organizing involved. I keep a messy idea file. Most [...]

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The Stashing of Ideas

April 9, 2007

Do you wake up in the morning with the plot for the world’s greatest novel formulating in your brain? Not every morning, but about once a week I do. Often when I’m in the middle of something else: driving, showering, putting away groceries, watching TV, talking on the phone, making dinner, plotting my greatest ever [...]

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Publishable and Practical

March 26, 2007

You’ve got the greatest idea! It’s sure to be a billion dollar blockbuster, rivaling Stephen King and that other writer whose name you can’t quite remember though it’s on the tip of your tongue. But, is your idea a good one, really? Some of our ideas seem really super charged at the time, when we [...]

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Decluttering

August 21, 2006

Clutter! There, I said it! Are you cringing just thinking about it? I do. You see, I am a clutter bug. Sitting in front of my computer I am surrounded on nearly all sides with a clutter of my own making. It’s 90 per cent paper, biodegradable eventually, if I let it sit in the [...]

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