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The Death & Rebirth of Books

When I was a kid I wanted to live in a library. Like the cramped gothic ones you see in Harry Potter movies, except I dreamt of those before she wrote about it. I remember the first time I went to Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris when I was 24. I saw a guy [...]

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The War of Art

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“The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy, one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots. He looks in the mirror and sees GI Joe. Remember, the Muse favors working stiffs. She hates [...]

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Top 3 Organizing Tools I Use

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“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own” -Bruce Lee I’m a busy person. Writing, property managing, parenting, and hobbies upon hobbies… The way I get it all done is through a radical devotion to calendars and to-do lists. It’s not a perfect system, as anything that involves [...]

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Hurricanes: Pack & Evac or Stay & Pray

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Today is the first day of hurricane season and I’ve just about finished up my preparations. This year I put together supplies for both options: a) pack and evac or b) stay and pray. Ok, so I don’t pray. But I freak out pretty well. The hurricane season forecast was just released and the verdict [...]

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Hurricane Prep: The Evac Pack

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May is hurricane season preparedness month, so I’m checking my stock and planning ahead. I’ll be doing a few blog posts explaining how I prep every year. The first one here is about my evacuation bag or “evac pack”. People everywhere have (non-apocalyptic) disasters that require you to leave your home or workplace unexpectedly (likely [...]

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Train to be an Early Morning Person

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For most of my adult life I was a night person. Between grad school, my TV news jobs, and my goth inclinations, staying up late was required. But oh how I love shaking up life, and now that I have a home office, and do writing and property managing while juggling an 11 month-old and [...]

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Nook Review

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I’ve been playing with my Barnes & Noble Nook eReader for a week now, and I’ve written a little review of the experience. First, on eReaders in general, I’ve decided eBooks (in their current form) cannot replace books. Real books still have a place. You can’t “thumb through” an eBook, or scribble in it, or [...]

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Teufelsdröckh Therapy

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The post-partum months can really unleash the hounds of hell on your mental stability. I’ve never been one to wallow, but these last few weeks have been a challenge – lethargy, exhaustion, disorientation, disorganization. None of which I’m okay with. So this week, the eighth post-pregnancy, while prostrate among the rotting cheerios and curdled baby [...]

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The Illusion of Productivity

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“You’ve been living in a dreamworld, Neo.” -Morpheus Between this article and this software program I’m pretty bummed about the amount of life I still waste online, and I’m determined to fix it somehow. And yes, I do think it is wasteful in spite of the article being titled: “In Defense of Distraction”. I think [...]

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