Category Archives: Just sayin’

Write the next sentence. Take the next step. That’s really all there is to it.

My writer business involves an eclectic mix of stuff — this blog, books, local news, and — (Gaah! How do we turn off every beep, bell and whistle that notifies us that something new just popped up on the magic device so stop everything and come look! look! look!) Sorry, I had to see ifContinue reading “Maintaining focus through the beeps and bloops”

“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

It seemed to me that Willow The Best Dog There Is™ deserves to star in her own meme.

We timestamp our moments (or the computer does it for us), with each detail of the stamp representing the same journey at different paces. Our spot in time is part of a specific year, a specific month, a specific day of the week, a specific day, and even hours, minutes, seconds. There’s the signpost upContinue reading “The signpost up ahead”

  “You stopped.” “No, I didn’t.” “Yes, you did.” “I never stopped.” “And yet, you have nothing to show.” “That’s pretty harsh.”

“Life is short. Make sure you spend as much time as possible on the internet arguing with strangers about politics.” — a popular meme There are (at least) two ways to respond to angry/hateful statements that you encounter on (anti-) social media: With anger/hate in kind, or with love. How about saying, “We should talk”?