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Fancy Coffee Friday: Confidence Rollercoaster
New beginnings. My first post of 2016 was all about goals, things I’d set out to do more of, do better, do less of; not resolutions, but goals. I’ve always felt that Usonians have watered down the meaning of what … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Thinking Warm Thoughts
Yesterday, I spent about four hours working on a post for the fine people over at Clothes Free Life. That was after spending a couple hours working on a rough draft for the same piece, written out longhand the other … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Figuring Things Out
I’ve always been a bit of a fly by the seat of my pants person, and my next adventure is following along in the same manner. Numerous friends have asked me what I’ll be doing next when I’ve finished up … Continue reading
Posted in Fancy Coffee Friday, Personal, Random Thoughts, Writing
Tagged career, careers, Emilie Wapnik, Fancy Coffee Friday, job, jobs, multipotentialite, musings of the amusing muse, polymath, renaissance man, renaissance woman, the amusing muse, What do you want to be when you grow up
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Draft Picks
One of the issues with being a person afflicted with a serious case of “busy” is that my ideas for writing don’t always come at a convenient time. I have yet to carry a pen and paper into the shower. … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: Blogging 101 – Back to Basics
Perhaps it is the lingering effects of Catholic guilt that nibbled away at my mind these last few months, whispering, “Sarah, you’re neglecting your blog,” that caused me to sign up for WordPress’s “Blogging 101”. Perhaps it was curiosity. Maybe … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Writing
Tagged asocial not antisocial, blogging101, Fancy Coffee Friday, journal, journaling, life, why do I blog, Why do you blog?, writing
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Go Take a Hike at…
Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park in Preston, MN. Weeks ago I wrote a post about a camping adventure I took with friends where we saw Yoda in the forest and I promised to write more about the park, etc. So here … Continue reading
Fancy Coffee Friday: With a Little Help From My Friends
I’m not a Beatles fan by definition, but this song came to mind during a recent email exchange with a dear Internet Friend of mine. I was responding to a series of recent events they’d gone through and in my … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Life, Musings, Personal, Writing
Tagged 4-H, Americans, culture, enhance, fika, fikabröd, friendships, group participation, groups, hinder, interest, isolation, Master Gardener, modern technology, National Junior Horticultural Association, NJHA, Sweden, Swedish, The Beatles, With a Little Help From my Friends
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Fancy Coffee Friday: A Rantling on Rudeness
Have you ever sat down and pondered if you were a rude person? Do you do things that are rude? Say things that are rude? Are you uncouth or uncivil? Impertinent perhaps? I’ve thought about this a lot. While my … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Friendship, Personal, Random Thoughts, Rants, Writing
Tagged behavior, Fancy Coffee Friday, friends, Johnny 5, Molly Sims, personality, rantling, rude, rudeness, smart phones, smartphones
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Fancy Coffee Friday: One-Sided Relationships
The computer is a great invention. Not only did it allow researchers to make calculations in vastly shorter periods of time in comparison to writing it out longhand with a pencil on paper, it made the world a much smaller … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Personal, Writing
Tagged 42, A Prairie Home Companion, BBSes, Bulletin Board Systems, chat rooms, computers, Facebook, Fancy Coffee Friday, Forty-Two, foursquare, French Revolution, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, inventions, normality, NPR, one-sided relationships, pheromones, socially awkward, The meaning of life the universe and everything, Twitter, Vive la Revolution, Yahoo! Chat
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Fancy Coffee Friday: Changes
A moment. That’s all it took: a moment. After three plus years of moderating a modeling education forum on Facebook, I found myself heading into the group to take care of some moderatorly business and the moment my eyes scanned … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Fancy Coffee Friday, Modeling, Personal, Writing
Tagged adventure, change, Costa Rica, Facebook, Fancy Coffee Friday, learn Spanish, learning Spanish, modeling, Twitter
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Musings of the Amusing Muse 