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

Saying It Well

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

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 [...]

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 [...]