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Recent Articles
Now is the Time to Build Your Writer’s Platform
By Roger Skibowski | April 14, 2020Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash This is the process you will need to get your writer’s platform up and running. Every independent writer needs to have their own writer’s platform. Your platform is your brand – something that separates you from all the other writers’ noise and allows readers to find your signal. Your brand can…
As a Writers I Consider OneNote My Most Important Tool, and You Should Too.
By Roger Skibowski | March 23, 2020With the OneNote application I can “Collect Once Read Many Times on Many Devices,” The collection opportunities comprise typing, talk to text, scan, grab a screenshot, take a photo, draw, or grab sound, there might be other things I’m forgetting. This article is not a how to but a why I use OneNote and…
Fur Kids: Clyde – He is growing up and slowly growing out of puppy hood
By Roger Skibowski | September 16, 2019Photo by Eugene Zaycev on Unsplash But there are those times I think not fast enough. There are still those moments when he acts like a puppy, few but some. Clyde differs from our other fir kids, he’s a foster fur kid. That means he is on loan for a short period. We are…
Minutes reads: What I learned in 10 years of retiring.
By Roger Skibowski | September 14, 2019Every day became a long continual week end. Shopping during the day, rarely after 3-4 pm and weekends. Volunteering because I can. For me it meant hearing aids. And having reading glasses by the dozen. So you can place them in convenient places. One in each vehicle, several by the…
5 ways I changed my habits to work smarter and created more time for me
By Roger Skibowski | September 12, 2019Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash Doing one, many, or these 5 habit changes will create more time for you to… (fill in the blank), for me it’s write more. 1. I stopped doing what I can and started doing what I want to do. Fearlessmotivation.com has a great article about Matthew McConaughey’s Motivational Speech and…
She said “I miss you.”
By Roger Skibowski | September 10, 2019Photo by Mayur Gala on Unsplash Death is final, but our memories live on in time. Death has no rewinds or do overs. Robert’s death differed from all the other deaths of friends and family members that I have experienced. He was my friend for 28 plus years. How I meet Robert …
Life Lessons: Life is not always fair – but we survive
By Roger Skibowski | July 15, 2019We all want our lives to be perfect. Photo by Jonathan Hoxmark on Unsplash But the difficult parts of life help us grow and learn. There were four times in my life that did not seem fair to me – two times they changed the rules without my input. Two times were from a spouse, and two…
10 years ago I stopped writing goals and that was a mistake.
By Roger Skibowski | June 5, 2019Photo by Robert Baker on Unsplash Well, maybe it was not a real mistake. Having retired 10 years ago and thought I did not have to have a Plan or Goals. What really happened was there was always tomorrow to do whatever did not get accomplished today. I had a very flexible plan in my head with…
I remember: Early Phone technology – landline and cell phones
By Roger Skibowski | April 11, 2019Photo by Donald Edgar on Unsplash Landlines The first phone I remember at our home was a black rotary phone, the phone came in both wall and desk. The phones originally only appeared in black, shortly after phone came in colors. I recall Red, yellow, blue, green, white, and pink, there may have been others, don’t remember. With…