Author: Beth
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Using a planner to organize writing
Considering my well-known love of lists, it surprised no one when last year, I also fell in love with my first day planner. It let me organize all my work and projects and, with the improvements it made to my time management, it helped me accomplish more things faster. With… Read the rest…
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Tea review: Tazo Refresh Mint green bagged tea
Thus far, I’ve devoted all my reviews to loose leaf teas. They’re definitely my tea of choice, but it’d be unfair to overlook other options as well. Bagged tea is the kind most commonly sold and consumed, and it’s readily available in supermarkets in a wide variety of flavors. Some… Read the rest…
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Changing gears in the middle of a project
At the beginning of June, I hit the halfway point in my major WIP and discovered I’d written myself into a corner. Despite using a detailed outline, things became derailed enough that I had to do some serious work rearranging plot points and adding new ones to get to the… Read the rest…
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Tea review: Self Care blend tea from Plum Deluxe
On a particularly stressful day, I decided it was finally time to break out the sample packet containing Plum Deluxe’s Self Care tea blend. It was my first time trying a honeybush tea, so I was interested in seeing how it compared to the rooibos base people often compare it… Read the rest…
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Encouragement Costs Nothing
It was a happy event. Our young next-door neighbor had just graduated from high school and been accepted to one of her universities of choice, her major chosen and her moving plans underway. There were congratulatory balloons everywhere from the celebration, including inside our house, after our three-year-old convinced her… Read the rest…
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Making doll eyes: Cost vs savings
There’s a popular graphic floating around on social media sites that says “Why buy it for $7 when you can make it yourself with $92 of craft supplies?” Anyone interested and do it yourself route already knows that DIY isn’t always the way to save money, especially when you’re making… Read the rest…
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Dear Buzzfeed: Stop Ruining Lists
Nobody likes clickbait. A few weeks ago, I discovered the magnificent organization Stop Clickbait, where they take clickbaity articles and post the link along with the answer to the baiting headline. It’s amazing! I only have one issue with it: they classify lists as clickbait. There are two kinds of… Read the rest…
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