Author: ChatterLei
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Time is my enemy
When I have a day off to spend it doing the creative things I enjoy, time passes quickly. Too quickly. Those days are few and far between because of all of the hours I work. There is enough to do, I could work 80 hours a week and barely make a dent in answering all…
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The end result
How do you stay motivated when learning something new? I love learning! Sometimes, it is a challenge. To stay motivated, I keep the end in mind. And remind myself that learning new things takes time. The time will pass, and before long, the new thing will become something that is a part of my understanding…
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Just pick one!
What do you do when you have more than one creative nerve signaling at all times? Write a story! Or journal! Or sew your current quilt! (I mean, the perfectly good fabric is already cut up so I can sew it back together. In puzzle pieces.) Get out in nature! Take your camera with the…
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Casserole or Hot Dish?
It depends on where you live. How far east of the Rockies do you have to go before the dish morphs from Casserole to Hot Dish? My family and I lived for 15 years in a small town along the Mississippi River where it was definitely called Hot Dish. One of my favorite dishes from…
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Your Vote is Your Voice
Do you vote in political elections? We lived by this belief or mantra: “If you don’t vote, you have no room to complain about things you don’t like going on in the world politically.” I watched the example of my parents. They always voted. And shared their opinions freely. Not forcefully. Somewhat quietly. Let your…
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After a Good Night’s Sleep
Anyone who knows me, knows I love mornings. I feel my best, think my best, and work my best at the start of the day. Just last week, I recognized something that I have always felt, but never really realized it until now. I had enjoyed a beautiful mostly productive morning. The time was approaching…
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Sleep is Healing
Have you ever felt like you wanted to zip your skin off, crawl out of it, and leave it in your bed to disintegrate and go down the drain in the weekly wash with other skin cells sluffed off during the week? The covers were the first thing I threw off this morning. Those normally…
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DNA, The Tattler
My aunt recently shared a photograph with me, one that immediately pulled me in. Sitting at the top of a set of steps in front of their home are my great-grandfather Carnahan and great-grandmother Elsa. On the grassy yard below them sits their young son, Richard, about five years old, along with a woman I…
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Love My Hummer!
I’m procrastinating getting ready for work this morning. I have a new job, and learning new things has never come easily for me. I didn’t leave my last job by choice, so there’s a bit of lingering bitterness mixed in with all this “starting over” that began back in October. A couple of months ago,…
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My View From Here
Living in the city, no matter the size, is waking in the morning to the smell and feel of fresh night air. A yawn and a stretch later, that intoxicating aroma is smothered by the sickening odor of exhaust and fumes of an awaking city full of automobiles rushing to a destination of “another day,…
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Brrrr…
The wind blows hard here at times. We are not “The Windy City” but we could be a close second. Today, the temperature outside is 55 degrees with high winds, which makes it feel like sweatshirt weather inside. Stew sounds good for dinner on a day like today. But, I guess chicken spinach tomato pasta…
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