- Desert Island
- When Down is Up
- Cost is Not Bad
- Holding onto Yourself
- Speak Boldly
- Professional Writing
- Love Is a Choice
- Gardening Episode
- How to Put in Your Own Drip System—or Not
- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery, Part 2
- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery
- My New Succulent Garden – Part 1
- Titling
- Describe It or Sell It?
- Facebook Is Cooler than You Think
- Suicide
- When Backwards Is Forwards
- Helping Others Succeed
- It Takes All Kinds
- How Priorities Change
- Fizzling
- My Life Passed Before Me, But I Wasn’t Dead
- Suffering
- Chopping Wood
- 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
Author Archives: Lin Ennis
Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery
My supraspinatus repair surgery was two weeks ago yesterday, and while I did a lot of research to understand what that was and what the rotator cuff looked like, I was primarily interested in how to get ready to live … Continue reading
My New Succulent Garden – Part 1
Taking a break from writing about sales and marketing, I’ll talk about another passion, a set as it were: creativity, building something, trying something new, working with my hands, solving problems/inventing solutions…and the list goes on. I posted pictures on … Continue reading
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Titling
After settling on a good title for your epistle, you need to look at “titling.” In film and movies, titles refers to the design and presentation of the words on the screen before the content is delivered. Is it raw … Continue reading
Describe It or Sell It?
It’s fun to listen to someone else’s excitement about their upcoming book release, new business opening, or art show hanging. I’m full of questions about the direction the person is going, what gave them the idea, and mostly, “How are … Continue reading
Facebook Is Cooler than You Think
As fashionable as it once was to join Facebook, it’s becoming equally fashionable to trash talk Facebook. (I suspect many critics remain furtive users.) Of course, I think I have one foot in the world of grandparents who’ve joined to … Continue reading
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Suicide
I hate it when people kill themselves. Even people I don’t know. I’ve thought about whether to mention this week’s name or keep it generic, but I think more people might read this post if I spell out the name. … Continue reading
When Backwards Is Forwards
People talk about going backwards when they want to go forwards like it’s a bad thing. Sometimes backward is the only way to go forward. I had to do just that this week. My Iron[wo]man watch was two minutes slow. … Continue reading
Helping Others Succeed
Early this morning, I saw a bird glance off the glass door and land right side up on the mat a few feet away. I watched for signs of life. It’s head was upright, neck did not look broken. Eyes … Continue reading
It Takes All Kinds
We have an amazing wood stove. It’s almost as big as a 50-gallon drum—or maybe it is that big. Many people have thought it was “homemade,” but no, there is a manufacturer, Fire-View, and this stove came with the house, … Continue reading
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How Priorities Change
For the past year, I’ve been worrying less about big things that might be little to me. So much so that I’ve blurted it out–in public. When the no-see’ums were plowing my scalp to harvest survival for their posterity, I … Continue reading
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