Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman

Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 4

Write More Write at least 500 words per day at least five days each week. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading and very little writing. I blame the Goodreads challenge. Last year my goal was to read 50 books. That was so easy I met the goal before the end of August. SoContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 4”

Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 3

The magazine backlog My third 2017 eight-week challenge goal is Spend one day a week reading the backlog of magazines sitting on the end table. My real goal is to eliminate the backlog so that means reading at least 4 magazines a week, even if it takes more than one day of reading. In preparationContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 3”

Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 2

Get More Exercise My second 2017 eight-week challenge goal is Walk at least 5,000 steps per day. Yeah. That’s only half the distance I should be walking each day. But it’s a lot more than I’ve been walking recently. You know, in winter it was just too cold to go outside to walk. Driving to a mall might tempt meContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 2”

Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1

Make Better Food Choices My first 2017 eight-week challenge goal is eat more nutritious food with fewer empty calories. I was doing so well last year. I had adopted Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s recommendations in his book, Eat to Live, and was benefiting from not only the promised weight loss (with the more important reduction inContinue reading “Eight-Week Challenge: Preparation 1”

Eight Week Challenge

In May of last year, one of my favorite bloggers, Queen of Blank (real name, Danielle), undertook an eight-week challenge in advance of her marriage to her sweetheart Brad and her move to Texas. She and Brad are now married, she now lives in Texas, and I know she took part in last year’s NaNoWriMo, thoughContinue reading “Eight Week Challenge”

Skunked Words and Other Oddities

I recently came across the phrase skunked words or skunked terms to describe words for which the usage is in flux, evolving from the original meaning to one that may differ so much from the original that its meaning in context is ambiguous. Thanks Josh Bernoff of Without Bullshit. The word Bernoff referred to when he introducedContinue reading “Skunked Words and Other Oddities”