Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: INTENTIONAL “Professionals should be intentional about ……….” In my morning freelance job, […]
Calming Down the Swarm
It’s time to stop. What am I stopping? I am (mostly) ending my relationship with Swarm (formerly Foursquare). I have been checking in on Foursquare for nine years. NINE YEARS. That comes up to: My decision to (mostly) quit was pretty anticlimactic. I got a new phone in mid-December, and had to re-enter passwords for […]
Five Minute Friday: SIMPLIFY
Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation.” Today’s prompt: SIMPLIFY When I was within a few minutes of sitting down to […]
Make Your Child’s Future Dazzling with Florida Prepaid
This post is sponsored by the Florida Prepaid College Board, through my role as a Believer Blogger. All thoughts are my own. Because our yard is large and has a huge tree-free area, our neighbor uses it every year to stage a pyrotechnics extravaganza (he has a professional license, so it truly is something beyond […]
Five Minute Friday:MOTIVATE
Welcome to this week’s Five Minute Friday. Our instructions, via creator Kate Motaung: “Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Today’s prompt: MOTIVATE The first night we had Wayne Kevin home from the hospital, […]
Goodbye, 2017. You weren’t ALL bad.
Happy New Year’s Eve! It has been an eventful last week of 2017, with my sweet mom being very ill at UF Health with pneumonia, so I’m taking a small shortcut for today’s blog and featuring my Instagram “Best Nine” for 2017. Working clockwise from the top left corner: It’s funny that this picture is […]