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

Sizzle

Poems by Emily Dickinson

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 #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 [...]

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 [...]

Improving My Blog

  Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness is sponsoring a year long challenge to help bloggers like me improve their blogs. I’m going to join in. As a new blogger, I figured I can use the help. Twice a month she will be setting out part of the project for us to work on. I hope you’ll [...]