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  Fiction: Staying On Track

  Posted on January 23, 2012 by Kat French in story & craft

  [I wrote this flash fiction piece at the last Quills & Quibbles writers group meeting. The assignment was to write for ten minutes, longhand, and to include the word or idea "button."] Nora fiddled with the top button on her heavy coat. It would be time to leave soon. She was worried about Arthur. He [...]

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  Defragging your physical environment

  Posted on January 16, 2012 by Kat French in managing attention

  Yesterday, I spent 5+ hours cleaning my 7 year old daughter’s bedroom. I had spent several additional hours a week or so ago just going through her clothing and purging anything that didn’t fit, was unfit to wear, or that she just didn’t like. All together, I removed 11 trash bags of stuff from her [...]

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  Three words for 2012

  Posted on January 3, 2012 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  Fellow web nerd Chris Brogan regularly distills his “New Year’s resolutions” into three code-word themes.  Last week, he once again sent out a year-end reminder and request for people to do likewise.  I don’t always play along, but this year in particular it seemed like a good tool for what I have planned. My three [...]

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  What I mean by #lifeisattention

  Posted on January 2, 2012 by Kat French in managing attention

  I’ve been quietly making little notes to myself on Twitter for a few weeks as the year winds down to a close. I’ve been hashtagging the notes #lifeisattention so I can find them easily later.  The short format of Twitter forces me to keep things concise and specific, which is also good when your attention [...]

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  No offense

  Posted on December 21, 2011 by Kat French in relationships, story & craft

  Have you ever noticed that people always say “No offense” either just before or after saying something that would give the other person cause to take offense? When someone says “no offense,” what they’re really saying is something like this: “I want to say something rude, disrespectful or offensive, but I have neither the tact [...]

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  Ready to suffer, ready to hope

  Posted on December 17, 2011 by Kat French in managing attention, story & craft

  And I’ve been fool and I’ve been blind I could never leave the past behind I can see no way, I can see no way I’m always dragging that horse around All of these questions, such a mournful sound Tonight I’m gonna bury that horse in the ground Cause I like to keep my issues [...]

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