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Boxing
Do you shop at what they call “Big Box” stores? When I lived where there was a great many choices for shopping, I avoided Walmart at all costs. I went there twice, and I think that both times were to … Continue reading
Posted in advice, big plans, chicken, shopping, creativity, Daily life, decisions, descriptions, experiences, Family, food, free week, goals, guests, helping others, Life, Lists, Miscellaneous, Random thoughts, shopping, time management, Tonette Joyce
Tagged BIG BOX STORES, Costco, Prices, rising prices of foods, Sam's Club, shopping, Value
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ODDBALLS’ HALL
My sister had a quirky friend who was trying to describe where something was in a nearby town. It was next to the “Oddfellows’ Hall” but she didn’t really know about them and said that the place was “next to … Continue reading
Posted in America, big plans, blessings, careers, creativity, Daily life, Dealing with stress, decisions, experiences, Family, food, Friendship, helping others, hobbies, imagination, Life, Lists, marriage, new skills, self-improvement, shopping, Tonette Joyce, using talents, weather
Tagged Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Lawrence Brown, Lost in the Pond, Oddfellows, pajamas at Walmart, rain, Superbowl
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Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
(I’m back after being ill and I just hope that I make sense! I have no idea why it posted in italics.) This week: If you had to get rid of most of your belongings in order to move into a … Continue reading
Posted in advice, authors, blessings, Books, collections, Daily life, decisions, experiences, Family, favorite books, favorites, food, goals, hobbies, imagination, inspiration, Life, lifestyles, Lists, memories, Miscellaneous, Music, personal libraries, poetry, procrastination, reading, recipe, series, time management, Tonette Joyce, traditions, using talents, What if, Words, writing
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I See London,I see France,I see Someone’s Under….drawers
Apparently I came up with the question: “What is in your desk drawers”? What ISN’T in my desk drawers? We have desks all over the house. I bought a little, dainty writing desk when we first got married and that … Continue reading
English: British to American
Last week while we were discussing the possibility of our works being translated into other languages, I said that I would like to bring up translating English to English, that is to say, “British” to “American”. I have read books … Continue reading
Posted in America, authors, Books, characters, dialogue, food, foreign publications, imagination, Life, Lists, Miscellaneous, movies, novels, phrases, protagonists, publishing, Random thoughts, reading, Tonette Joyce, translations, TV, writers, writing
Tagged Bristish vs American English, British writers, Differences in English and American phrases, English as a second language, English phrases, Understanding accents
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Note on Notes
“NOTES, do you make them? Have you tried taping and transcribing them? What works for you?” When I put this topic on the schedule, I was actually asking about notes for writing, but I did not make myself clear. It … Continue reading
Posted in author's life, authors, awards, big plans, Books, creating scenes, dialogue, imagination, inspiration, Life, Lists, novels, poetry, technology, Tonette Joyce, Validation, writing
Tagged "Bixby" assistant, deciphering notes, handwriting, making notes while writing, recording notes, Samsung Notes, smartphones, talk-to-text, The Cloud, transcribing notes, word processing, Writing lyrics, writing poetry
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