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About Kat

Cat lover, singer, early music addict, reads a lot. Former R&D chemist with an obsessive need for variety. Now active as a freelance technical writer and editor, web designer, photographer, computer coach, and trainer. Owner, MasterWork Consulting (http://www.masterworkconsulting.com/).

Always a beginner

One of my quote-a-day subscriptions recently sent this, from Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969, p. 37): “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be … Continue reading

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Third Sentence Thursday: Celebration of Discipline

From the first chapter of Richard L. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.” ~ Richard L. Foster Deep people? Who are they? … Continue reading

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Capture a creature

Today’s blog post at Writing the Way Home includes a quote from Ted Hughes’ book Poetry in the Making. [I]magine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were … Continue reading

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Does life need a Restart page?

A friend sent me a link to The Restart Page. It’s a collection of Restart dialog boxes from vintage computer operating systems. Each one has an active button that, when clicked, replays the entire Restart sequence from that OS. Cool! … Continue reading

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I’m happiest when………

This was harder than I expected it to be. There are so many things that make me happy. Singing. Singing almost anything. Singing keeps me sane. Seeing a flock of goldfinches at our bird feeders (finally, after years of having … Continue reading

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