Welcome

Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while. Contact me by email: joyfullyretired (at) gmail (dot) com.

What I’m Reading

Justice

Forever

The Sense of an Ending

Wish You Were Here

A Moveable Feast

Clarissa

The Odyssey

My Book Rating System

A = Excellent in every way
B = Very good story
C  = Good/Average
D = Poor
F = So Bad I couldn't finish it

Archives

What would I change on Library Thing?

This week’s question asks me to think about LibraryThing and make suggestions on how to make it better. Since I’ve only been a member for two months, I have to think a bit. Let’s see, so far . . . I’ve primarily wandered around the website, trying to figure out how to do things by [...]

Blog Improvement: Social Media Continued

A couple of weeks ago I posted about the various forms of social media (that post is here). At the time I was learning what the various types of social media there were. I promised to check them out and report back to you. Well, here I am – completely socially-mediad-out. But at least I’m a [...]

Blog Improvement: Social Media

The Blog Improvement Project is a year-long series of events to help those of us who are intrepid enough to improve on what we have created. Event #5 calls on us to enter the “social media” world. A long time ago I learned an important lesson: never assume your audience knows what you are talking [...]

Blog Improvement #4

Assignment number four in the Blog Improvement Project was to concentrate on the basics. I felt that most of my basics were okay so I took advantage of the time to do somethings I’ve really been wanting to do for a while. I moved to a new server – my son’s. My address is the [...]

Blog Improvement #3

Our assignment for this portion of the Blog Improvement Project was to write as many different kinds of posts as possible. We were given the following list of ten varieties and challenged to come up with these ten different posts in the next two weeks. I MADE IT! Here is the list and my posts [...]