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How my yard sign collection grew during 2020
My yard sign collection has grown over the past year — Partly due to quarantine. Partly due to racial injustice. Partly due to my Selfish Sabbatical. Partly due to new (to me) faces (see who at end of post). Yard Signs Confidence is sexy There is no trait more attractive. In significant others. Friends. Coworkers. Read more…
Return From My Selfish Sabbatical
For more Selfish Sabbatical images, see end of post Links may be referral links where I may receive compensation if you purchase via the link. The doodles below are part of the 100 Day Project where I post a doodle a day on Instagram; this is Day 69. July to August 2020 I took Read more…
Live Elsewhere Experiment
For Chattanooga recommendations, scroll to end, just above photos We’re back. (I hope you’re envisioning Michael Jordan circa 1995 and his famous two-word fax…) In an effort to inject positive change into a year filled with oodles of negative change, at the end of December 2020, Best Friend and I changed zip codes from 60622 Read more…
Productivity Recommendation: leaving Lastpass
Links may be referral links, where you get goodness, I get goodness, we both get goodness if you sign up for anything via the link. I only recommend that which I love. I’ve been a Lastpass fangirl for years. If you don’t know Lastpass, it’s a password manager and so much more. It keeps all Read more…
2020 Life of Yes℠ Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again. Where I tell you what I love or aspire to love and you then decide if any of my loves would make a [chef’s kiss] gift for yourself or others in your life. The usual disclaimers and reminders — I don’t care about fashion, makeup, skincare, labels, real Read more…
I’m on a Selfish Sabbatical
UPDATE: The follow up to this is here. If you ask me for anything July through August 2020, I will answer — I’ve actually been on a Selfish Sabbatical (SFSB) for years. But it’s been a focused, very niche SFSB. To deal with the high-class problem of constant variations of asks to get coffee, pick Read more…
GUEST POST — Travel: One is the Magic Number
This is a Guest Post by Cheese-It DeLonda Dowling. Or is it DeRhonda? Delores? Jane? (People butcher our names all the time. I often get “Sara” like I’ve misspelled my own name by typing “Saya” and someone is politely correcting me. So now we joke-not joke about it…) DeLonda came into my life when she Read more…
GUEST POST: Why You STILL Aren’t Where You Want To Go
This is a Guest Post by Cheese-It Laura Swartzbaugh. She’s been in my world for a gaggle of years, let’s say six. When we met, she was a teacher and had been one for let’s say a gaggle x a gaggle number of years. Many years. And as so many Cheese-Its are, heck, so many Read more…
2019 Life of Yes℠ Gift Ideas
If you’ve been in my vicinity for a second or three, you know that I value efficiency, ease, commonsense, laughter, frugality yet also paying top dollar for things & people worth top dollar, referrals, feeling good about myself, and helping others feel good about themselves. If I can smoosh all of that into list form, Read more…
Travel: Life of Yes℠ Japan
One of the most anticipated trips personally. Because Japan is the farthest I’ve ever traveled and the most “different” — language, alphabet, food, customs. Because we booked it a year in advance. Because we flew First Class, direct, in $24,000 seats. I have never been so close to being Oprah. Best Friend and I have Read more…