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Lifestyle: Changing Your Life Habits or Altering Them is What I Say

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I’ve said this before: There are so many articles out there about what you need to do or not for betting your lifestyle or health or hair and whatever else it takes to keep you looking your best. I get it. But I’ve also realized that some of these articles, while they may be good for the one writing it or doing their research, the suggestions don’t always work for the rest of the ‘class’ if you will. So, to make myself perfectly clear. I don’t push anything on anyone. I merely share what I found to be the most interesting of suggestions and what I have learned from them. And although I wholeheartedly believe moderation is the key to most anything, I also take note of some things that may work better. Here are my latest finds about changing your life habits: {above photo source}

Online Reads Worth A Click With A Good Cup of Coffee

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It’s been raining here in San Francisco, and I have to say I couldn’t be happier. Finally, we see lushness, and freshness to everything that’s been slowly deteriorating in the past decade from the drought.  I also love the fact that the rain forces me to stay indoors and focus more on my novel and all things I need to write. Class assignment, articles, and blogs. So, if the weather is bringing you down, then consider making yourself a fresh pot of coffee, and  escape for a few moments with these interesting finds online:

Universal New Year Resolution – A Healthier Lifestyle

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I love this article, which offers up some easy ideas  to make what I call a universal New Year resolution/challenge if you will. I am excited since all the suggestions are totally doable. Except perhaps the cutting down on the sugar part – which I am working on finding ways to do just that. For that stay tuned. Otherwise, let do this thing together!

Interesting Finds Online – Vol 12

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My mind is all over the place lately, trying to juggle too much while pretending I am not thinking too much about them.  This morning, after a grueling telephone conversation with a friend in desperate need of some advise, I decided to go straight to the internet for some good old-fashioned distraction, and here’s what put a smile on my face. On fairy doors: I bought Veda a fairy door as a gift. It doesn’t open, but sometimes at night a fairy (I named her Ivy Oakbrier!) will “come through” the door and leave behind handwritten notes, trinkets or tiny glitter footprints. In return, Veda will put out pictures, notes and elaborate set-ups for the fairy to play in. It’s fun to see her sense of wonderment, and it’s also a great learning tool. If her room hasn’t been cleaned up for days in a row, the fairy will gently mention that she would have liked to have visited but couldn’t get past the mess!

Lifestyle: A Place Is Not A Place Until It’s A Seaside Cabin

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One of the benefits of being a writer is that you spend a lot of time falling in love with wonderful places, and extraordinary lifestyles, and interesting people, which and that inspire to create a story-no matter the genre-stories come from the passion writer feel about something o someone. I do a lot of research online, as you may have already noticed from this fun place called RawSilk&Saffron, and when I stumble upon something that sparks an interest or is best suited for a whole or part of my storytelling, I, Bookmark it, the old-fashioned way, right into a folder on my computer, I set up for every novel I’ve published, and the ones I plan to write. So you can imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon these amazing photographs of a Seaside Cabin-I have no clue as to where it is-adding to a folder-for a wonderful story I have thus far drafted. The Seaside cabin is surely a scene I need to add OR, simply escape to if I can only figure out …

Interesting Finds Online While Laid Up with A Cold

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I haven’t had a cold in five years, so it hit me like a BOULDER a few days ago, first day losing my voice, to coughing nonstop and feeling annoyed with the aches all over from all the coughing. I think what I don’t like the most is I can’t think straight, and feel like everything I am doing is a dream  – maybe the meds. I figured I could stare at the internet or the contents posted on the internet to keep me distracted and these are some of the finds I found interesting enough to share:

At The Start of A New Year…

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  So much is going on, and in a way I like it. I enjoy busy. A calendar full of events and chores and such, taking up most of January for me. We are starting the new year with a company party, happening this Friday in the city of course, at an old classic hotel near Union Square. Details of which I will mention after the fact. I’ve been busy with the last-minute details, play coordinator-host to a 200 plus gathering of co-workers. The program for the evening cocktails, dinner, raffled gifts and dancing. This is the only time I get to see my co-workers in formal attire. Normally at a software dev company in San Francisco jeans is the norm, a Giant’s cap if you happen to be  a fan, and a funky T-shirt expressing something not offensive to anyone. Saturday I begin my training for the Superbowl 50 volunteer program. Yes, I have volunteered to work during the weeks leading to and including the Superbowl.  San Francisco as you may know plays host …