- Independent Living
- Cleaning House – Dr’s Orders
- Writing
- Invisible Servant
- What Do You Do
- What Does Anyone Know
- Pomodoro
- Timing: NOT Everything
- Picking Up Where You Left Off
- Look! Look!
- Why ‘Affordable Housing’ Fails
- Computer Backup Hell
- In Search of Nectar
- Fake Cowgirl
- One Things that Changed My Life
- Ghost Gifts
- Birthday Pain
- Missing Thereness
- Awaiting Profundity
- Smart Superstition
- Willing to Change Your Mind About Islam?
- Happy Birthday Mother
- Feckless
- The Parental “Conversation”
- A New Wrinkle I Can Live With
- Chasing the Dragon
- TSA – the Most Hated Part of Freedom to Travel
- Benefits of Harvesting Rainwater
- Separation Bookends
- Taking Too Much
- Lessons in Deadheading
- Shorting the Shortcut
- Best Water Bottle
- Do Not Envy
- Incorrect Sentiment
- When Mom Dies
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- This Is My Brain on Paper
- Making History
- Newness
- Remove the Sting
- One Thing
- Tracking Change
- We’re Going Crazy
- Makeover Hell
- Inner Tube Art
- Go Ahead: Change Your Socks
- Crunching Leaves
- Giving Thanks
- Does Your Cat Know You’re a Writer?
Author Archives: Lin Ennis
Independent Living
Funny phrase “independent living.” We’ve each lived independently to some extent, more or less, since we left our parental homes. I was sixteen. How about you? Four and a half days ago my wife and I moved into a senior … Continue reading
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Cleaning House – Dr’s Orders
I heard an old wives’ tale a few years back, and it made some sense to me. The saying was, “Whatever state of order or disorder you are in as the new year rolls in will predict your entire year.” … Continue reading
Writing
I love to write – and I love to edit. There was a time when I preferred editing. I found it easier to correct, sharpen or “improve,” (according to the Bible of “me”) someone else’s brilliantly-crafted ideas. No compulsion in … Continue reading
Invisible Servant
When you volunteer to serve on a committee, commission or in the community, you tacitly surrender your own opinions, your ego and your survival of the fittest instincts. You may retain your education, life experience and perspective—all of which you … Continue reading
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What Do You Do
Our Western society is tied to asking people, “What do you do?” Knowing another’s profession gives us a place to pigeon-hole the person, to attach to him or her all we’ve ever known, suspected or feared about people in that … Continue reading
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Tagged cap and gown, cliffsnotes, fantasy life, life's dream, occupation, pigeon hole
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What Does Anyone Know
You’re heard the saying People see what they want to see. Or its variant hear what they choose to hear. I’m not going to argue about the concept of choosing what we see or hear, but I am convinced we … Continue reading
Pomodoro
A few days ago, the Pomodoro technique was introduced to me by Lifehacker. Pomodoro is Italian for tomato. The technique was invented in the last century, 1992 to be precise. Similar to Interval Training for optimal physical fitness, the pomodoro … Continue reading
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Tagged pomodoro, productivity, self-employed, time management, tomato timer, work discipline
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Picking Up Where You Left Off
Don’t you love it when you run into a friend you haven’t seen in a long time, possibly years, and you pick up where you left off as though no time has passed? I’ve delighted in that experience and relish … Continue reading
Look! Look!
“Look, kids! Wake up and look over there, because I can’t; I’m driving.” Children drowsy during a four-day, 2000-mile cross country car trip are usually a godsend. Less squabbling. Less toy throwing. Less name calling. But as we neared Pikes … Continue reading
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Tagged first grade reading, observing beauty, primary reader, shooting stars
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