by Susan Annette Smith | Feb 16, 2015 | Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
This is the true story of how two packrats met, fell in love, and decided to get married and live happily ever after. Then one of them converted to Minimalism.
by Susan Annette Smith | Dec 10, 2016 | My Serious Side, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
If you look closely, you’ll see him hidden behind his more traditional cousins on our fireplace mantle: the ceramic lavender-robed Santa with the gold-tipped, three-point jester’s cap and the big bowl of wassail. Lavender Santa is bad enough, but...
by Susan Annette Smith | Aug 20, 2016 | Miscellaneous Malarkey, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
It’s a miracle! I recently lost forty pounds in one day, and I did it without diet pills, protein shakes, or exercise. Okay, so the weight wasn’t actually on my body, but it had weighed on my spirit for years, and losing it made me feel as good as if my five-year-old...
by Susan Annette Smith | May 19, 2016 | Miscellaneous Malarkey, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
If you missed the beginning, the first four parts about my descent into writing hell are right here: The Torture Begins, Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band, A Charmin’ Experience, and Death, Destruction, and Polysendatons. Over four weeks I paid my...
by Susan Annette Smith | May 3, 2016 | Miscellaneous Malarkey, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
Parts 1, 2, and 3 are here, here and here. I sat back and scarfed down two Dove dark chocolates: one as a reward and the other as fortification for the next step, which JFM calls “Panning for Gold.” Our assignment was to get the S out of our FD and craft a...
by Susan Annette Smith | Apr 25, 2016 | Miscellaneous Malarkey, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
This is a little like a soap opera. If you missed the first two episodes, here are the play-again buttons: Four Weeks in Hell, Part 1 and Four Weeks in Hell, Part 2 I should tell you about rule #2: No self-editing in jam writing. No correcting typos, no changing to a...
by Susan Annette Smith | Apr 11, 2016 | Miscellaneous Malarkey, Packrat to Minimalist: An Ongoing Journey
If you missed the beginning, the saga of my four weeks in writing hell starts here. Besides inundating us with preparatory requirements, JFM made us—dare I say it?—write every day for at least an hour. The first week we could write about anything. We could even...
