by Sue Horner | Dec 16, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
You may have noticed I have somewhat of a yearly tradition for the December issue of my newsletter, Wordnerdery. Rather than talk about words, expressive writing and so on, I usually share my thoughts about something more personal. The tradition continues! The...
by Sue Horner | May 13, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The music may live on, as Apple says, but not the devices many of us relied on before streaming music services showed up. Yes, Apple has finally discontinued the iPod. It’s not surprising, of course. What other technology from 2001 is still around? Kids, this was...
by Sue Horner | Jun 4, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
This week, black boxes like the one here flooded social media. It began when music-industry veterans Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang asked the industry to “pause” work on June 2 in solidarity with the Black community, and to protest the killing of George Floyd,...
by Sue Horner | Apr 2, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Having been in a home office for years, I thought this WFH (work from home) thing would be a piece of cake. Turns out, I’m as likely to be stress-eating cake as much as the next person. Projects I had on the go are on the back burner. I’m spending far too...
by Sue Horner | Jan 8, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Happy New Year! Oops, the year has hardly begun and we’re heading for the New Year’s resolution danger zone. Already, “chances are pretty good that all those lofty resolutions you made before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 have fallen by the...
by Sue Horner | Dec 5, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
When it comes to Christmas trees, it seems people are either in Camp Real (oh, that fragrance!) or Camp Artificial (oh, so easy). For many years, my family was away over the holidays, so for safety’s sake, we went with artificial. And having one, we keep using...
by Sue Horner | Oct 31, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.” – Writer Anne Lamott, in Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith With Halloween on the doorstep, it seemed time to talk about things that scare you. No, not zombies and ghosts — I mean things you want to do...
by Sue Horner | Jan 23, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
“It’s only mid-January, but chances are pretty good that all those lofty resolutions you made before the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 have fallen by the wayside,” says executive coach Harrison Monarth in an article for Entrepreneur. What happens? We have good...
by Sue Horner | Dec 23, 2015 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As the old year winds to a close and you get ready to pop the champagne on a new one, you’ll find lots of advice for making and sticking to resolutions. I’m not a big fan of once-a-year resolutions, but according to the impressively named Statistic Brain...
by Sue Horner | Oct 28, 2015 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Is your first reaction to something scary to say no? Mine usually is, too. But last year I decided that when my first response to something was “Oh no, that’s not gonna happen,” I was going to say, “Why not?” It was an interesting exercise that led me to accept two...
