Happier at Home: little altars everywhere

Super-nerd here, reporting in for duty. 

I've just finished shelving 2013 books, and in the process, creating or expanding some sections.

Biology and Animals got a fine re-do, and Kid Lit's getting its own shelves. Historical Fiction continues to grow, especially the Marie Antoinette gallery, as I devour these titles as fast as I can.

I love arranging books just-so, adding topical trinkets, making little dioramas, pleasing my own eye.

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bring a coach into your life, for FREE

Checking my email this morning, I realize that I've surrounded myself with coaches of one kind of another this year.  I'm receiving a lot of blogs in my in-box, reads that support my desire to keep my focus on the big purpose for 2012 -- my emancipation as a writer.  This is the whole reason I've begun this practice of waking at 4:30 am on the weekdays.

Not to mention all that email means I need more time to read and think.

So, like I said, I'm reading a lot of coaches.  And oh, coincidentally, the person I declined to carpool with to death camp a few weeks ago is also a coach.  Imagine how excited I would have been when that little factoid was unwrapped in the car as we shared the ride to and from Sebastopol.  And she seems totally awesome.  We're having coffee this coming Friday, so yay!

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