Rachel Z. Cornell, The ProNagger

“Just an Inch Past Splat”

We are not very good at predicting how we’ll feel about a given situation until we’re in it. This is true about any dramatic change in our lives – A job loss, love loss or a disability.
I remember an article in the New Yorker that talked about the near immediate regret Golden Gate Bridge [...]

6 Simple Ways to Use Your To-do List to Set Yourself Up for Success

1) Create a list of your daily activities.
You have heard it before, write it down and you’re more likely to do something. It’s true. It’s simply true.
2) Break each activity down into it’s smaller parts (write down those parts on your list)
Even with a small project, it’s great to break it down into it’s [...]

Your Morning Ritual:

Snooze, stretch, coffee, walk, swim, shower….
Wake, dress, feed family, drive, eat at desk….
Coffee, coffee, paper, surf, coffee….
What’s your morning ritual?

The 4th of July Addition of the Short Attention Span Round-up

The Capital Steps: For starters, if you have not heard of the political satire group, The Capital Steps, this is a great weekend to familiarise yourself with them. “Vice President Joe Biden recently declared that their Fourth of July Radio Special is “a big @#$%ing deal,” so I think you should go listen on-air or [...]

Do We Need Adversity to Grow?

Could it be that we need experiences, even, maybe, a bit of adversity, to grow to our fullest? It proved to be true for the trees in Biosphere II after all. If you don’t recall, Biosphere II was the multi-million-dollar project of a totally enclosed ecosystem. What happened was the trees [...]

What does Legally Blind Mean?

I was recently asked the following question on formspring. I thought it might be helpful to share the answer here as well.

Q: You’re legally blind? What does legally blind mean? What can you see?
A: Legal blindness definitions vary but most commonly, if someone is registered legally blind they have visual acuity of 20/200 (6/60) or [...]

The Girl with the Red Shoes Dancing in the Gulf:

This is off topic but something I’m motivated to say something about. I just read that: Crude Leaking From Seafloor Contains Higher Amounts of Methane Which Could Deplete Oxygen in Gulf Waters, Create “Dead Zones” Link to story.
When it comes to the balance of the natural world every footprint we make leave an imprint [...]

Shave and a Haircut…

Better safe than….
knock, knock….
Strike while the . . .
It’s always darkest before . . .
You can lead a horse to water but . . .    
A penny saved is . . .

What did you do with the above phrases? Did you finish them? Could you even stop yourself from resolving them?

In Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Professorial [...]

ProNagger’s Motivation has Gone to the Dogs:

Dogs seem to be motivated by one of three things, food (rewards), play or praise. My old hound isn’t into fetch and in his senior years I can’t get him to do much of anything BUT he will still tackle a bear for a beggin-strip. You are not so different than our canine friends.  What’s important [...]

New Write-Now Groups to Form:

Frazzle free, truly productive daily writing? you bet-jah.
I’m starting a couple new Write-Now Groups. These groups are small 5-7 authors tops. Times for check-in calls for these new groups are.
Group 1: 8:45AM ET
Group 2: 9:00AM ET
Group 3: 10:15AM ET
Here’s a description of this service…
Write Now Groups:
Write Now Groups are exclusively for professional writers, [...]

The Short Attention Span Round-up

I’ve seen a few sites that do a weekly round-up of on and off topic web finds. I, having the short attention span that I do, take surf breaks and find all sorts of strange and wonderful finds. So let’s round some of them up, shall we.
SAVE WITH COUPONS:
First, since I recently talked coupons I [...]