The staked tomato is on the ground. The lemon drop chili plant that was supposed to grow to a max height of 3 ft is now nearing 5 and between me looking at it and thinking “Should I prune this? But it looks healthy..” and doing a look through to check on things after the…… Continue reading Summer 2025
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Poetry, Tish Wonders, and Interesting Reads
Laconic is a favorite word right now. I came across it while reading Whereabouts (Jhumpa Lahiri) in the chapter titled At My Mother’s. The dictionaries say it means to use few words in speaking or writing or the minimum amount of words needed to the affect of sounding mysterious, rude, unfriendly, or casual. “And yet…… Continue reading Poetry, Tish Wonders, and Interesting Reads
Do It Faster with AI, They Say
There’s a Masterclass trailer for their Achieve More With GenAI class that talks about harnessing AI to boost your productivity. Do more. Do it faster. It starts with Allie K. Miller, one of the featured experts, saying “It is now starting my day at like 30 mph, instead of zero.” ??? I don’t know why…… Continue reading Do It Faster with AI, They Say
On Editing
Usually, if you keep obsessing over a piece of writing, it gets worse. A word, phrase, punctuation, you can always find something to change, replace or move around. But other than factual or language aspects that are either definitively correct or not, at some point you have to know when to let go. But I…… Continue reading On Editing
Choose Your Own Adventure
You take the yellow trail-it takes you along a gushing, natural brook, the only one left of its kind. You’ll walk past a pond and under a canopy of cool, green trees. It is a loop and you’ll come back to this place, gauranteed. You take the blue trail-it goes over hills and past a…… Continue reading Choose Your Own Adventure
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