The other day, a woman I know came up to me and said, “Do you think your sister could give me a quote for re-doing my living room?” I stared at her for a minute, uncomprehending. All of my siblings are tax accountants or some variation thereof. “Um. What?” “Isn’t she an interior designer?” “No. ” …
Month: May 2009
The joys of writing — even during tough times
This blog post over at The Renegade Writer blog on the joys of journalism even during tough times got me thinking about the joys of pursuing a writing career (whether it’s journalism or not) no matter what the economy is doing. Some days, even when nothing is selling, I still can’t quite believe how much…
Setting Priorites: What I Did
So yesterday I was talking about the difficulty of setting priorities when you have a lot of competing demands and some of the work may prove unnecessary in the long run, but if you don’t do it, you may starve and how this whole situation leads to dithering and spending time doing less important tasks…
Setting priorities: What to do, what to do?
Today is turning out to be one of those days when I have about fourteen fairly large-scale projects that I could be working on, all of which are important, but some of which may end up being a waste of time depending on factors beyond my control. Of course, I never think good work…
Making every day a fresh start
One of the first things I learned in martial arts training was that if I focused on what I had done in the past — what had gone wrong with yesterday’s training, or worrying about how I’d sparred against a partner — I distracted myself from my current training and even undermined myself. It was…
Things that make me smile
The other day, my daughter and I watched Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, mostly because the DVD was on sale and I’d promised her a new movie as reward. I had no expectations of it, except that I usually like Dustin Hoffman and hoped it wasn’t another Ishtar. As it turned out, Jessica sat in rapt attention the entire…