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I did it. I got a short story written and up. This time, thanks to advice from @peggyhazelwood, I used Draft2Digital. Now that was a learning experience. This it my first in the Cozy Blue Pond series,

Three hundred people downloaded my Quickie Book, Write 300 Words, when it was launched and on Amazon Kindle's free days. I like the symbolism of that - 300 people downloaded a book on writing 300 words

No wonder I resist writing. I had really dropped the ball. I have had two short stories on the Kindle platform and on the older one, I had not updated the links to my current web platform. When I decided

time had come to deal with my anxiety about writing. All that pressure. All that time slipping by. So I plunged in and wrote what I call a Quickie Book. It's going up on Kindle as I write this. I have

Art journaling with family. Very revealing.

This is another part of my deconstruction of Sue Grafton's J is for Judgement. I pulled part Chapter 2. It's another 3,000+ chapter Kinsey is on the move. She introduces her friend, Vera, and describes

I had my ancestry DNA done by 23andme. It turns out I have Neanderthal DNA. Apparently, there were three different types of humans. Homo sapiens (that's us, the one type that survived), Neanderthals, and

It's beautiful. It's lovely. It's home. The sun is out and I did my very brief yoga session this morning. I love the isolation and the tranquillity even if the work I was doing this morning was kind of

I started with Chapter 1 and went through it paragraph by paragraph. This is where the writer sets the stage and there is a hook. There are 3,392 words in the chapter and it is presented from the main

I enjoyed @daddykirbs Youtube video, Stevia & Mint: A Tasty Garden Treat, because I am in the process of growing mint and wanted to see how he was growing his. I also enjoyed that video because of

It's April 8. And this is what the Weather Network has to say for itself. Storm warning. I had no plans to go anywhere today but that is not the point. It's spring, The crocus are supposed to be up.

I've tried to grow mint for a couple of years. I'm not sure what I do wrong but it does not catch on and keep on growing like a perennial. This year, I'm trying something new. Starting some plants inside

This is my accountability day and what I did this week and today. I figured out that the best way to get a big job done is to do it one rock at a time. My Plan for the Week Create a Udemy Course Deconstruct

Udemy has great courses and I have a couple running there. A couple of years ago I got this great idea to do a series on CISSP Certification. Certified Information Systems Security Professional. I became

My plan is to deconstruct a novel and since no one would make the choice for me: Sue Grafton or Jonathan Kellerman, I used a random name picker. It selected Jonathan for me. Hmm. Turns out that I want

I went to a yoga class tonight. It was chair yoga and the instructor is excellent. It was an hour long and involved the mountain pose chair style and breathing exercises. There were several other poses

A long time ago, I worked with a small press. It was such a dreadful experience I ended up pushing it all out of my mind. It was a very small press and I got to read the submissions. There were some

The very heart of yoga practice is ‘abyhasa’ – steady effort in the direction you want to go. - Sally Kempton My pal Wendy gave this quote when I was talking about my yoga journey and when I was in a writing

Today's #sevendaysoutside challenge started by @erikah is #BrickSaturday. Here's my brick photo. This is a very typical Saturday sight for us, cooking over the brick firepit. Fond fond memories.

Here is my entry in @magiccleatus's Zen Colouring Contest #7 with blue. What a fun contest and it is something brand new for me, using art software. I used Krita and keep imagining what I could do if I