This keyboard case holds not only the keyboard, but also my Lenovo tablet.I LOVE being able to use a keyboard when working on my tablet! A few months ago, I realized that my new Lenovo tablet [a Lenovo Tab P11 (2nd Gen)] would be a lot more useful if I had a keyboard to go…
Working with clay can be kind of messy … but writing can be messy, too. Creating a bowl on a potter’s wheel or a piece of sculpture with modeling clay is very different from combining groups of words into sentences that (eventually) form a story or an article. But there are a lot of similarities,…
Flannel shirts are still some of the most important “wardrobe items” in my closet. Nothing beats a large flannel shirt for comfort on a cold winter day! I don’t know what it is about large flannel shirts I like so much, but I’m sure the appeal started when I was a teenager, living on the…
Most backpacks now come with internal frames — invisible from the outside. But the support is still there. The same goes for support systems in different parts of your life. YOU know they’re there, even if others can’t see them. The 7 things I’ve listed in this issue of my newsletter are lessons I learned…
Practical tools like this wooden mail/key holder can easily be taken for granted. The one in this photo (which hangs in my kitchen) is now 45 years old! This practical piece of wall décor is probably the least exciting item in my kitchen — but I use it all the time. It was a gift…
Sticky notes are great for recording new ideas for stories and anecdotes … especially if you don’t happen to have a large pad of paper nearby. If your answer to the question in the headline is “YES” — you’re a storyteller! Over the years, I’ve learned that sharing anecdotes is a favorite method of many…
This book is a true classic — a resource many writers probably already own. I was introduced to this book during my first semester of junior college. It was one of our required textbooks for English 1A. Because of how useful it was, The Elements of Style was one of the few books I didn’t…
The decision to start a blog doesn’t have to be complicated. But a blog CAN improve your site’s SEO (search engine optimization). Blogging has a longer history than I thought it did. I first heard the term “blog” when I was at a luncheon for a networking group I belonged to in the mid-2000s. The…
These sea turtles and starfish are constant reminders of past visits to the beach. About 9 years ago, I began buying artwork that reminded me of the ocean. It had been over a year since our family had been able to visit our favorite beach (Stinson Beach in Marin County, just north of San Francisco),…
“Repurposing content” is one way to describe what you’re doing when you re-use material you’ve used before … often in a completely different format. The first time I heard of “repurposing content” was in the mid-’80s. I had decided to try my hand at selling freelance articles, but knew I had a lot to learn…