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February 19th, 2014 Some days seem like an avalanche. You know the kind – where one thing happens right after another and it doesn’t let up until you climb into bed. Most of my days are avalanche days, now. Just look at today. I left the house at 7am to be at work in the Harwich Koko at . . . → Read More: Avalanche
January 24th, 2014 This post first appeared in The Cape Cod Children’s Writers Blog on January 23 2014.
I have never moved my work very far simply because marketing has always been, for a self-published author, much too daunting for me. Just panacea of online information on how to go about it makes my head hurt and venture . . . → Read More: Marketing! Marketing! Marketing!
January 19th, 2014 Yesterday my first piece of work was published. This is a special day for any writer. It took four years. This blog was it’s starting point. This blog gave me legs to get in the race. Since it’s inception, I have also found other talents along the way. I can illustrate, and recently I discovered . . . → Read More: Published!
November 7th, 2013 Click. Click. Click. There’s no place like home. Follow your passion. Find your passion. It’s the pathway to happiness, so goes the recent hype. I jerk my head up and think, I better hurry up and get out there and search for mine. I thought when I retired from teaching what a wonderful opportunity to . . . → Read More: P is for Passion – Click Click Click
October 17th, 2013 Creative Confidence is the name of a new book, written by the two , David and Tom Kelly, founders of Ideo, a design and consulting firm that uses a human -centered approach based on empathy (finding out what’s meaningful to people) to create things like the first computer mouse for Apple to TV remote controls. . . . → Read More: Creative Confidence
October 16th, 2013 I don’t know how you define “success”, but if you’re like me you define it by achieving a goal you set. If you mention the word success it automatically communicates that something has been accomplished – and it was a positive thing.
A few of my goals were to write this blog everyday and . . . → Read More: Success…or Not?…or Maybe?
October 10th, 2013 I follow my school district on Facebook and today there was a great quote on there by Joshua Marine:
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them are what makes life meaningful.
The newness and excitement of returning to the working world has worn off and now the challenge of adapting to a work week . . . → Read More: Adding Meaning
September 20th, 2013 This morning I woke up to a blog published in the Huffington Post, placed in my timeline by my daughter. I quickly opened it up and read the article because my daughter never posts to my timeline and when she does, I figure it’s a big deal.
I really liked the blog. The name . . . → Read More: Wait But Why?
September 14th, 2013 This is actually the Fun Friday A 2 Z blog hop post – it’s appearing on Saturday – so can you guess what kind week it was? Yup. Hard. What made it hard? The fact that I’ve been called to edge of my comfort zone so many times in just five days.
This was my . . . → Read More: H is for Hard!
September 9th, 2013 Today I drove back to the Cape and had to work the 4-7 shift at the Koko Centerville location. I’ve only been here once and am not to familiar with the shops in the plaza. It was 3:45 and way past my afternoon coffee time. I pulled into Bell Tower Mall and looked around for . . . → Read More: K-Cup Heaven
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