For the last five years, I’ve participated in a workshop called One Little Word, which asks participants to pick and live with a word through the year to see what you can learn. The workshop has monthly prompts, which I am hit-and-miss about finishing, but I’ve always enjoyed the process of choosing a word and [...]
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For the last several years, I’ve participated in a workshop called One Little Word. The point of the workshop is to pick a word to guide your year, then revisit it each month through a series of creative prompts. I’m not always great at the prompts, but I’ve loved the process of choosing a word [...]
Anyone who is a bookworm knows that words have power. Words matter, and the words we choose to let into our lives can make such a difference in how we see the world. For the last two years, I’ve chosen a single word to serve as a guidepost and a lens for the year and [...]
One year later, and I think what I said about the idea of One Little Word still rings true: Anyone who is a bookworm knows that words have power. Words matter and the words we choose in our lives can make such a difference in how we see the world. This is my second year [...]
Anyone who is a bookworm knows that words have power. Words matter and the words we choose in our lives can make such a difference in how we see the world. This year I decided to try a new way of inspiring change in my own life by joining One Little Word 2014, a year-long [...]
This week at my day job, I had the chance to give a really short presentation about an app that simplifies my life. I decided to talk about a task management app I love, Todoist, which got me thinking more about my overall personal organization system – I’m such a nerd! As a little break [...]
One of my goals this year was to stop buying books online and instead only buy books from bookstores. While it’s only been seven weeks, I’m proud to say that I’ve been able to stay on track. I did buy one book online – something I needed for work and wasn’t going to be able [...]
Around Here | Job hunting is the worst. That’s pretty much it. I worked on a bunch of applications near the end of the July, and I’m now waiting impatiently to hear if I’m going to get interviews out of any of them. And searching job boards. And filling out more applications. And waiting and waiting [...]
First of all, apologies to everyone who reads this blog who isn’t a book blogger. I feel like this week has been pretty blogger-centric, which isn’t my usual posting plan. But since Nonfiction November officially kicks off on Monday, I can almost guarantee I’ll be back to talking about the thing everyone cares about, books, soon. [...]
Title: We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter Author: Rachael Hanel Genre: Memoir Year: 2013 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Acquired: From the publisher for review consideration [rating:4/5] A Bit of A Tangent: Wow, I read this book a long time ago — the beginning of June, if my [...]
