Things that make me smile

Yesterday my daughter said, “I love how your hair sparkles!”  Sparkling hair!  It must be that amazing new conditioner.  No, wait, I’m not using an amazing new conditioner.  I glanced in the mirror.  I looked like my normal self, no stray glitter from a craft project or anything like that.   “Hmm.  What do you mean?”…

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Big Projects and Productivity

A comment on a previous post points out that people sometimes get stuck on long projects and stall because they haven’t figured out the next step.  “Write a book” seems a little daunting.  You can’t get it done today.  So you shy away from getting started at all.    Productivity gurus talk about figuring out…

What makes us stay?

The other day, I made the mistake of saying the word “anywho” to a friend who is a lifelong New Yorker.  If you’ve never heard this word, it means you’re not a midwesterner, and I can’t explain it.  Anyway, my friend suggested that I should probably avoid such provincialisms in the future or else people…