“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” ~ Ralph Hattersley Number One Question The number one question I get about blogging, isn’t oh so you are an influencer? Or how do you make a living off of that? Questions you would think I would get. No, I get asked all the time how I take my ….
Category: Pen and Caffeinated Ponderings
The Elocutions, ponderings, caffeinated addictions, of my mind. In other words, all things writing, coffee, thoughts and opinions.
“I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.” ~ Rafael Nadal Spring is right around the corner I can not believe we are at the end of February. HOW did this happen? How? I ask you friends? On one hand February feels like it is speeding up and ….
“One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that’s what will be interesting to you.” ~ Gretchen Rubin Helping Others This is part of a new series I wanted to start about blogging, photography, and the ins and outs on what is a billions of dollars business, influencing. And ….
“I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.” ~ Helen Mirren First Friday Favorites Here we are friends, the FIRST ….
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody Beattie Grateful Framily, I truly am touched and so utterly grateful for the messages ….
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ~ Barack Obama How Are you? “How are you?” just might be my most detested phrase in society. Don’t get me wrong I use it, because it is considered a ….
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ~ Rosa Parks One Year Later It has been one year since I left the Concrete Jungle after having called it home for seven years and what a year it has been. I never could ….
“I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I’ve bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online.” ~ Tom Ford Resurgence of Online Shopping With Quarantine in full swing and stores having been closed in most places since March, online shopping has seen a huge uptick. It ….
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius Social Distance Strong When I shared my last Friday Favorites post (in March!) Social Distancing was just getting started, and truthfully felt like something of a dream, and now two month later it is still going strong, though my home state of New Hampshire, which is where ….
“I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.” ~ Steven Wright Latest Coffee Trend Another Monday. Another week in quarantine. And definitely not enough coffee! I feel like quarantine should have made me less dependent on the java, instead, it has been the exact opposite. There seems to not be enough of the caffeinated ….