Some of these things matter more than others. Updating the beneficiaries on my insurance policies and retirement accounts since I got married – nearly a year ago! Sorting out my closet and packing up some – OK, probably quite a lot of – clothes to give to charity Finding a place to release/BookCross those books that are wandering around in the trunk of my car – or at least donating them to the Friends of […]

Not to get all “busier-than-thou” about it, but I rarely have “nothing else to do,” so I guess I’d approach this topic as more as “10 Things I Do When I Have Nothing Else I WANT to (or HAVE to) Do.” Some are definitely procrastination practices, some are things I save for when the work gets done, and some I would actually consider to be things on the “to-do” list, just not high-priority ones. Read […]

…(for a month, for a year) if you couldn’t live in your own I had some trouble coming up with ten, due to a couple of limitations I placed on myself: I have to have actually been there, at least to visit No weather extremes, one way or another I’m not sure I could truly live in any large, major city at this point in my life; I’ve grown too used to suburban conveniences like […]

I looked at this topic from a couple of different directions, and discussed it with my husband, who actually has had to save things from a fire. We live in an area of Southern California where wildfires are, unfortunately, not rare, and he and his family had to evacuate their home due to a nearby fire threat several years ago. They were able to return safely and their house wasn’t damaged, but was still understandably […]

Since I appended five things I liked about my job to last week’s list, I’m going to tweak this assignment just a little bit, and make my list “10 Things I Like About Having a Job.” As usual, these are in no particular order (except for the first one): The ability to support myself financially The ability to contribute to my family’s financial support (this would really be more like 1a, but I couldn’t get […]

Since I’m trying to cultivate more positivity in my life, and particularly as far as work’s concerned, I wasn’t sure I was going to write for this week’s topic. But it’s too hard not to. As usual for me, this isn’t in any particular order. The commute – but I haven’t yet found similar work I can do closer to home The perpetual sense of crisis The pervasive low-level anxiety The way it seems that […]

“Never” is a dangerous thing to say, as is “always.” I’m one for the qualifiers – “usually,” “probably” or “probably not,” “maybe” – as opposed to the absolutes. Looking over some of the other lists posted for today’s Ten on Tuesday, I’m apparently not the only one who feels that way, which is reassuring…and having said that, here are “10 Things I’ll PROBABLY Never Do Again,” in no particular order. Some are little things, some […]

In no particular order: Canada – I’ve been to different parts briefly a couple of times, but I’d like to go back with more time to explore (just not in the winter!) England/the U.K. – for many reasons, not including the food Australia – again, this would require some time… New Zealand – where the hobbits come from! Just kidding 🙂 Italy – going back to my family’s roots Spain – because the people I […]