When was the last time you noticed these amazing works of art in the sky? One of my earliest memories involved looking at CLOUDS. I was standing in the small backyard behind our 2-story flat on Dolores Street in San Francisco, staring at the sky. I was sure that if I could actually TOUCH those…
Seeing patterns is easy … once you get used to noticing them. “The world is a confusing and turbulent place, but we make sense of it by finding order,” says Philip Ball, author of Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does. “We notice the regular cycles of day and night,…
Despite the fact that Gmail has a wide variety of features (including templates and email snooze), my favorite is Gmail’s scheduling feature. Gmail allows me to schedule emails to be sent at a specific time of day … several days in advance, if necessary! It’s a huge time-saver and allows me to quickly cross this…
Finding new ways to categorize different parts of your life can be fun! I think my first experience with creating categories (or maybe I should say, WORKING with them) was in 2nd grade. Using the list of 10 new spelling words we got each week, my teacher (Mrs. Carrithers) had our class do something different…
HOKA shoes and Oofos flip-flops — two of my favorite pieces of footwear. The brand of sport crop pants (also called capris) that I wear all summer long is FILA. They’re comfortable and perfect for walking. But since it’s hard to find good photos of those, I decided to just share a picture of my…
Walking is one of the best forms of exercise you can do. It’s fun, too! How often do you walk? I don’t mean walking to the mailbox in front of your house or up the stairs to your bedroom. I mean taking walks through your neighborhood or in a local park – walks you take…
Image designed by Freepik I think I first heard about GOOGLE KEEP in the summer of 2023. I was surprised to learn that it’s an app that’s always visible on the right side of my screen whenever I open Gmail! According to Wikipedia, “Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free,…
Going overboard with organization can become meaningless – like posting blank sticky notes everywhere. The result? Less clarity, more stress. “Being organized” means different things to different people. Some think it’s unacceptable to have anything out of place in their home, and will pick up a glass that a guest has set down on a coffee…
A few years ago, I was looking for a wall-mounted spice rack, since kitchen counter space was limited in the place we had just moved to. I also wanted it to look nice … and (if possible) fit in with the “color scheme” of our kitchen and dining area. I finally found the perfect solution –…
The choices you make now can impact you for years … so choose wisely. I think I was in my late 20’s when someone I looked up to as an authority told me: “You have choices.” At the time, I didn’t want to hear it, because I thought she was hinting at a decision she…