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Multi-tasking
So it turns out that yesterday’s ‘under the weather’ thingy seems to have been some sort of random sneezing, drippy-eyed thing that lasted a day. I’m guessing it was some sort of hay fever that has...
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A bookish question for you…
If you were to recommend one book blog to follow… what would it be? My answer to that is extremely easy. It is Tales from the Reading Room. I have loved Litlove’s style and way with words from the...
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Self-help meditations – 2nd Century style
In case you think that our modern society is in some way the pinnacle of self-help, psychologically-aware, affirmation-spouting gurus… think again. We are simply repeating over again that which has...
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Content theft
With my little Miss now producing her own online content over at YouTube, this post by Timethief was rather timely and gave me cause to reconsider my current usage levels at Facebook. The post is...
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Follow me little internet, follow me
Following on from Timethief’s comment on my post yesterday about content theft, I duly re-opened my Firefox and installed Lightbeam. In the time it took me to open my blog and sign in I had already...
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Dream job
Is it too late to apply for my dream job? The question would be… what is my dream job? Well, as a full-time mother/teacher and INFJ person, I reckon that I would like to take Trey’s job for a spin....
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The scales have tipped
It would appear that the scales are not evenly balanced in my life at the moment. Just as I was getting close to re-establishing a regular reading habit, I chose to involve myself in NaBloPoMo and I...
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Fillers and stalkers
An interesting thing wandered across my social media screen this morning and because I’m rarely up at 5:30am these days I thought I’d take advantage of the quiet morning to check out if I was imagining...
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Ahh, humanity
The world has been a pretty horrible place lately, and in more than one location around the globe. It’s also been a bit more so in plain view than usual. It’s very easy to lose faith in humanity on...
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A book review. What a mystery!
In light of the youngsters in the family coming down with a nasty cold, it’s going to be a bit of a lightweight post here today. My latest book review was posted over at t’other blog yesterday. It was...
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To Journal or Not To Journal
That is the question. For today. First off, my apologies for going AWOL this past week and a bit. We headed off on a road trip to see family on the Friday before last, and when the kids and I got...
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Morning Pages
I could have sworn that I had spoken at length about my favourite help-mate when my head becomes overwhelmed with life, but on searching the blog I find that I have seemingly mentioned it only in...
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Book review: Emma – Jane Austen
My latest book review is up over at the 1001 Books blog. It’s a perennial favourite by Jane Austen – Emma. I was finally brave and tackled an Austen. I first read them as a teenager and loved them....
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Morning Pages: An Update
I thought I’d drop in and give a quick update on my current cycle of being back in to using Morning Pages as a mind-clearing device. I’ve been using the website I mentioned in my earlier post,...
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On habit change
WARNING: Today’s post is VERY long. Get comfortable or skip down to TL;DR. ;-) Today’s blog post is brought to you by a desire to change. Change, that inevitable yet seemingly untameable verb. We...
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Gold Stars and Happiness Demerits
I was catching up with my Podcast listening after the mayhem of February and settling in of this month. It was while listening to my favourite ladies at the Happier podcast that it occurred to me some...
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Book Review: Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
2016 has been a fairly good year of reading for me so far. Up until the end of this week I have managed to read thirteen books. Considering I managed a rather feeble twenty books for the year in...
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Word of the Day: Anhedonia
I was reading the New York Times today, as you do, when I was suddenly stopped in my tracks by an unfamiliar word. While the context and parts of the word indicated a similar root as hedonism I needed...
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A Simple Task List Hack
Recently I came upon the Autofocus System of task tracking by Mark Forster. I went to YouTube to see if I could find a video to give a good visual explanation of it, but I ended up watching a video...
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A decade ago
As the tenth anniversary of my very first labour arrives, I am very mindful of this quote by Gretchen Rubin, “The days are long, but the years are short.” As a parent, I don’t think there has ever been...
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