What Do You Want to Make Today?
I don’t know the last time I went to an event where I felt like I needed business cards, and I’m so much of an introvert I probably didn’t hand any out anyway. But if you need business cards, it can be fun to personalize your business cards in a way that makes sense for […]
A few months ago I read a book called The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. It’s mostly about how doctors and pilots use checklists in their daily work to make things safer and to know what to do when things don’t go according to plan. I expected it to be more instructional, about how you […]
So, January, on the whole, did not go quite as planned. I was doing fine with my office cleaning for a lot of the month, and while I don’t think it’s possible for me to have a clean desk every day (too many projects!) I was at least trying to clean up at the end […]
I used to subscribe to e-mails from the FlyLady. If you don’t know her, she’s a legend among women of the Internet who are trying to get in control of their housekeeping. She sends about a million e-mails a day, and even the daily digest was too much for me after a while. But one […]
This week’s notions is inspired by the fact that last weekend was the fifth Arkansas Women Bloggers University conference, which took place in Hot Springs and was, by all accounts, fabulous. (I wasn’t there because it was my birthday weekend.) While I wasn’t there to get the knowledge live, I’m happy to pick up some […]
I don’t really even know how long I’ve “known” Tara Swiger. I met her online probably when Twitter was starting to get big, and she was a yarn producer getting ready to quit her day job and follow her passion. In the years since she became a full-time yarn maker, then started sharing her secrets […]