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

Gods In Alabama

The Red Pony

Read-A-Longs

Clarissa

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

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 [...]

Improving My Blog #2

Improving My Blog Through Brainstorming In step two of our year-long project on improving our blog, Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness  challenged us with improving the content of our blogs through brainstorming. Here are three techniques I like: Set up a place to record my ideas. What’s working for me is to put paper/small notebooks in [...]

Improving My Blog #1

I really like the idea of doing this project and I know good projects require goals. But, there is a part of me that is cringing at the thought of doing this. I think of all those years of reading goal-setting books, writing mission statements, developing plans for managing-by-objectives or whatever the latest buzz word [...]