Author Archives: The Amusing Muse
Fancy Coffee Friday: Challenged
Being challenged is a good thing. If everything is easy and requires no real effort on our part, we aren’t challenged and we aren’t really learning anything and that means we aren’t growing.
Fancy Coffee Friday: Breathing Creatively
The other week there was a new comic published by The Oatmeal that discussed creativity. I love the way Matthew Inman illustrates and explains various concepts, from philosophic to red velvet mites, and his thoughts on creativity were like a … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, breathing, creativity, Fancy Coffee Friday, Matthew Inman, monkey mind, musings of the amusing muse, the amusing muse, The Oatmeal
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Strange Days
Strange days, these. We are fine here, and thus far none of our household has shown any signs of infection from Covid-19. However, we are all resigned that at some point, we will likely be infected.
Posted in Blogging, Personal
Tagged musings of the amusing muse, silver-lining, silver-linings, Strange Days, the amusing muse
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Practice
“Have you been practicing?” I dreaded that question. Much like confession when I was in grade school where I didn’t have anything to confess, I knew full well that responding, “No,” was not the correct answer.
Fancy Coffee Friday: What Serves You?
As the hours passed on New Year’s Eve, I contemplated what I should post here for the first words of 2020. Resolutions haven’t really been my cup-of-tea.
Fancy Coffee Friday: Thanks, Yoga.
I was on my mat, squatted down in Mālāsana, when the instructor invited everyone to attempt Crow pose, or Bakasana, if we felt up to it. I’d been feeling stronger in recent weeks when it came to yoga class so … Continue reading
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
And now for something completely different… After years of being friends with Matt Sandbrook online (and in person – we’ve explored castles, had fish ‘n chips, and pints together!) we’ve worked on a project! Please enjoy: All In My Head … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Reset
The computer which I use at work is an older model and has been having trouble of late. It’s slow. Slow as molasses in January as the saying goes. It is cluttered and doesn’t have enough RAM to run the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Personal
Tagged armchair philosopher, armchair philosophy, bye Felicia, clutter, clutterer, Fancy Coffee Friday, flow state, hoarder, hoarding, musingsoftheamusingmuse, perfectionism, perfectionist, reset, reset button, reset life, the amusing muse
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Last week Monday, my barn jeans tore across the left thigh. They’d been wearing noticeably thin over the last few months and I knew they would need to be retired soon. Monday was July 8th and it would have been … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Nurishment
I am a fan of the literary magazine, The Sun, which is ad-free and runs a variety of features from interviews to “Readers Write.” Once in a while, I think I should submit something for publication, but the thought passes.
