Category: blogging

  • Monday Gratitude Quotes

    Monday Gratitude Quotes

    10 gratitude quotes/images to begin a new week!

  • Is WordPress Social Media?

    Is WordPress Social Media?

    One-minute read. According to WordPress (and virtually all other tech sites), the platform is a website builder, not a social media site. WordPress is the location where you “connect social media” to your blog or website. The majority of sources point to a clear distinction between social media and WordPress.…

  • To All Who Labor…

    To All Who Labor…

    Enjoy today! Click on images for sources. Featured image: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/06/29/could-workers-become-obsolete

  • WordPress in Words and Photos

    WordPress in Words and Photos

    The Words…… I’ve been back on WordPress for five months and things have changed from three years ago. There is significantly more selling and WordPress is not user-friendly if you’re using blocks. Work required me to regularly learn new technologies. While miserable for a stretch of time, it forces a…

  • Conserve Water! (Just Ignore the New Car Washes Opening on Every Corner)

    Conserve Water! (Just Ignore the New Car Washes Opening on Every Corner)

    Is filling my washing machine honestly more of a threat to the global water crisis than say… filling 10.7 million swimming pools? Or, operating the 62,000+ car washes across the nation…? We paid well over a grand for our new, full-fill Speed Queen washing machine. We looked at this same…

  • More Jack Dawson, Less Cal Hockley

    More Jack Dawson, Less Cal Hockley

    Assuming you have seen the movie Titanic at least twelve times, you’ll recall Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack Dawson as a happy, lively and engaging young guy. Though attractive, Cal Hockley (Billy Zane) is conversely entitled, arrogant and haughty. Jack embraces life as indicated in his famous dinner speech: I mean,…

  • Thursday Thoughts

    Thursday Thoughts

    “On Thursday, I can smell the weekend.” Invajy “Some people call it Thursday, I like to call it Friday Eve. Happy Thursday!” Anonymous “By Thursday morning, we’d gotten over the worst of it.” William Scranton

  • Thank You, Nurses!

    Thank You, Nurses!

    Today is considered National Nurses Day, but also kicks off an entire week of gratitude for those who honestly do the brunt of the work. Though rewarding, wow, it’s tough! Emotionally, physically…it’s not an easy profession. Someone precious in our life is an Oncology RN. Her experiences well up my…

  • Poetry

    Poetry

    “We do one thing or another; we stay the same, or we change. Congratulations, if you have changed.” To Begin With, The Sweet Grass “I don’t want to sell my life for money.” Black Oaks “You listen and you know you could live a better life than you do, be…

  • Blog Relaunch

    Blog Relaunch

    Welcome to Family5Power – Tales from a Mid-Life Mama! If you are still a subscriber, thank you for sticking around! If you are a first time visitor, please join me in this new adventure. The photo on the left was my WordPress icon for many years (my youngest daughter), writing…

  • Time – Everything and Nothing

    Time – Everything and Nothing

    The line of cubicles appeared as if nothing had been moved or worked in for months. They hadn’t. Several surrounding offices also displayed Valentine’s Day decorations from February 2020. Everywhere I looked, empty offices that hadn’t been habited in 11 months contained photographs, office supplies and even sweaters still hung…