Food – Word Inventions

Retirement eBook–Transforming my pages to ecards

By next week, I will have published my Incomplete Book of Retirement Wisdom [Impressive title, eh?].

But I thought I would add a short tutorial ahead of time that shows another way to repurpose the pages.

Here is a 90-second video for iPhone users.

Overwhelmed at the thought of writing?

Fast Company’s Art Markman has four suggestions:

Break it down
Make an outline
Just get something down
Write for five more minutes

If the list doesn’t tell you enough [and it doesn’t], here is the fleshed out version.

And I would add another suggestion.

Bake…[no, it doesn’t necessarily help you generate a bestseller, but it’s great for an afternoon coffee and who knows, the caramel experiment might just pay off in a fun blog post.]

: I added an amaretto caramel to the banana bread on the left. I added an Irish cream caramel to the banana bread on the right.

Rants and Riffs: Installment #1

I want to live in a world where…

cheese and loaves of bread — These folks are halfway there. Now all they have to do is jam a thumb-sized chunks of this cheese throughout one of those loaves.

cheese bread actually includes chunks of detectable cheese rather than a few scattered molecules. [I mean it, we’re talkin’ molecules!]

***

Ditto with cookies n’ cream ice cream. If I wanted crumbs n’ cream ice cream, that’s what I’d buy. Cookies n’ cream should feature veins and lodes of the chocolate cookie. [I mean it, we’re talkin’ veins and lodes!].

ice cream cone with Oreo cookie lodged in ice cream — Now we’re talkin’…

NOTE TO WRITERS: Rants require overuse of exclamation points and annoying phrasal repetition…and the use of snooty words like ‘phrasal’.

Here is a 90-second video for iPhone users.

Fast Company’s Art Markman has four suggestions:

Break it down

Make an outline

Just get something down

Write for five more minutes

If the list doesn’t tell you enough [and it doesn’t], here is the fleshed out version.

And I would add another suggestion.

Bake…[no, it doesn’t necessarily help you generate a bestseller, but it’s great for an afternoon coffee and who knows, the caramel experiment might just pay off in a fun blog post.]