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The Austerity Pantry Revisited 5 Jul 2013 | 12:30 pm
About a year and a half ago, I posted on an an experimental approach to food in Austerity Measures and the Simplified Pantry. I had challenged myself to pare the contents of our pantry down to 35 ite...
8 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Tips for Freelancers 3 Jul 2013 | 08:38 pm
Back in my nursing days, my right to practice was contingent upon staying up-to-date with developments in the field and being able to show evidence of continuous learning and improvement. The possibil...
Food Hacks: easy ways to make an average food awesome 21 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
Here are four of my favourite “food hacks”, easy ways to make an average food awesome … Pimped Beans Baked beans … meh … Arizona strawberries, bullets, whistleberries, the musical fruit – a simple ins...
Let “Finishing” be your Drug of Choice 20 May 2013 | 04:50 pm
As much as I despise psychological profiling, I know I don’t score highly as a completer/finisher. Nevertheless, few things beat the thrill of finishing something; it’s a natural high. If you have wok...
Deep Grammar 14 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
Grammar was never invented to separate people “in the know” from the rest of us or to keep teachers and proofreaders in a work. In fact it, was never “invented”. It is intrinsic to language and fundam...
Grammar Patrol 13 May 2013 | 01:55 pm
I am ashamed to admit that I found a copy error on the back of the business cards I have been using for the last three years. When I started freelancing in 2010, I didn’t know how to use a colon. At ...
Improvised Word Salads: a verbal experiment 10 May 2013 | 11:09 pm
I’d like some feedback on an experiment that may grow into a project or turn out to be a blind alley. I call these “Word Salads”. They are improvised lists of words, spoken with minimal expression. I ...
Thinking and Creating at Ground Level: learning from a 9 year old 9 May 2013 | 06:25 pm
Watch this: It’s no surprise, this clip has gone viral on YouTube. I don’t think we should be surprised to hear evidence that a 9 year old thinks deeply about the meaning of life and the universe. I’m...
The Leibster Award 8 May 2013 | 07:45 pm
Gillian at Skybluepinkish nominated me for a Liebster Award. The Leibster highlights up-and-coming blogs and helps to feed the content dragon. How kind! Responding to this nomination involves a lot of...
Going Public with Two More Audio Poems: some desolation and some adoration 25 Apr 2013 | 08:22 pm
Encouraged in no small way by Xe Sands, the curator of weekly audio gems at Going Public and one of the great cheerleaders among my online fellowship of creatives, I have been experimenting with shari...
