Oh, my goodness! I haven’t thought about those books in 30 years! I’ve totally forgotten that Jackie wanted to be an ornithologist! Of course, Jackie was me and Sharon was my sister, waiting for each publication date of the trilogy with a baseball bat (I actually toned her down!).

Love the nonfiction by day, fiction by candlelight image! And I do the same as you do–go off and do something just to feel I’ve actually moved or saw something besides my office walls. Some days, my “done” list is pretty boring. Nothing happened beyond what I set out to do. But other days lovely things will drop into my lap (or inbox) and those I tend to forget about long-term. Thanks for reading and a happy, productive 2019 to you, too!

Happy New Year, Patty! This blog needs tending, hoping to post more often than the past few years! I like your list idea of patterns, which can also be substituted for habits. Not listening and projecting is a terrible habit I have. Sometimes I won’t even let the person finish their sentence before butting in. Need to fix that, too.

It really is the small things–we may cross off our to-do list, but do we record things like an email exchange, or a new website discovery, or an interest that went into a different direction, or a new book? A record of accomplishments, yes, but also a record of those little things we stumbled on and forgot.

The course is amazing–I’m a real biology student!

Happy New Year!