Well, I’ve started off the day with a tax-related injury, words I never thought I’d say. Not serious but it is kind of funny.
Thanks, Monday!
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Posts Tagged ‘#365Ways’
So Very Monday
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #becauseMonday, taxes on April 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Making the Best of It
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, Thoughts on April 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner
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Go On, Do It
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, inspiration, life, Thoughts on April 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
— Mae Jemison, Doctor, Astronaut
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Aural Investigations
Posted in Entertainment, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #ThingsMyFatherLikes, Audio, classics, free fiction, public domain, Writers, writing on April 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
My father grew up loving the Sherlock Holmes stories. He wasn’t the only one, of course, and Sherlock has remained a driving force in modern culture since he was first invented by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Now that the books are in the public domain, there are a lot of new Holmes stories coming out, which is great. But if you want to go back to the originals and you enjoy audiobooks, consider this collection of 19 Sherlock Holmes short stories on the BBC, narrated by actor Hugh Bonneville: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories.
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories – Hugh Bonneville hosts new Sherlock Holmes series on BBC
His adventures have been enjoyed by audiences around the world for over a century with new generations discovering his thrilling tales through blockbuster films, television series, and even video games.
Now, the great detectives’ most famous mysteries are being brought to life in the new podcast Sherlock Holmes Short Stories hosted by Hugh Bonneville.
Enjoy!
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Stressed? This Might Help
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #LicenseToChill, Thoughts on April 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
This has been quite a week. Even if you don’t pay attention to the news or the markets or any of the other crazy happening over the past few days, you may have noticed the stress on the faces of those who do.
So. Today seems like a fine day to take a little walk on a beach and try to relax:)
And just for fun, Hawaii is the rainbow capital of the world. Here’s what that means.
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Nothing Like Looking
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, goals, J.R.R. Tolkien, Thoughts on April 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
— Thorin Oakenshield
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We Have Always Traded
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, cartography, connectivity, history, maps, Thoughts, trade on April 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Global trade is very much in the news these days. While many of the current moves from the US seem designed to take the country back to a time when every country stood on its own, those times have, arguably, been much exaggerated. There are many historical examples of interconnectivity, from the Egyptians to the Greeks to the Romans to the Silk Road and many more, but I recently saw a very cool map that brought this idea home.
A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks
Even before the modern era, the Afro-Eurasian world was deeply interconnected through trade.
I found this map to be a fascinating look into a network of world trade during an era many might assume was very insular. The only thing I wish it included is travel times. How long, for example, would it have taken for cardamom to get from India to Venice to Oslo and into a loaf of braided bread?
Here’s the map from Martin Jan Månsson, part of his website, The Age of Trade:
Zoom in and be impressed!
(Bonus for your amusement: a comic on tariffs from xkcd 🙂
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Writers, Pick Your Path
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #NoWriteWay, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Let’s put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.”
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Gears and Goals
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, Thoughts, writing on April 6, 2025| 1 Comment »
“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
— Charles M. Schulz
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Sick Day
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, #ifyouarenotsickrightnowenjoyit, ugh on April 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Mr Man is under the weather today, and I can feel the virus measuring me up as its next target. Not fun, but we have tea, cough drops, hot sauce, chicken soup, and Buckley’s, so we’ll manage!
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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