Tag: What Do I Do All Day?

Blog (detall) (Photo credit: Lady Madonna) I read a lot of them. Some are professional and followed by thousands of people, such as www.postsecret.com or http://blog.nationalmssociety.org/. Some are personal, with only a few dedicated readers. But I treat them all the same, and here’s what I mean. Readers shouldn’t burden themselves with remembering to look… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Read Other People’s Blogs

Obviously. Why do I do it? It feels right. For example: I am productive, creative, and sometimes even influential when I blog. I become engaged in life, as opposed to dispassionate about life. I feel that I am sometimes helping people when I do it, and this makes me all warm inside. Against my better… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Blog

This is the fifth in a series of posts about how a disabled person like me passes the time at home, now that I no longer work. “Are you serious Mitch? You expect me to read a blog post about napping, and not fall asleep myself from boredom and disinterest?” Challenge accepted! This will be… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Nap

This is the fourth in a series of posts about how a disabled person like me passes the time at home, now that I no longer work. It’s true. Some of the top universities in the United States and around the world now allow you to view their courses online, for free. You don’t earn… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Attend Courses at Top Universities (sort of)

This is the third in a series of posts about how a disabled person like me passes the time at home, now that I no longer work. As a child I was a voracious reader. I often had multiple library books checked out at the same time. At school I remember the Houghton Mifflin readers… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Read Books

This is a follow-up to my earlier post What Do I Do All Day? I Digitize and Archive Family Photos and Videos, and is only for those people who are interested in some of the nuts and bolts issues regarding a project such as this. The rest of you can return to chewing your toenails,… Continue reading Lessons Learned from My Photo and Video Archiving Project

This is the second in a series of posts about how a disabled person like me passes the time at home, now that I no longer work. I slowly turn the pages of a dusty old album, uncovering photos that I’ve never seen before, photos that perhaps nobody has laid eyes on for 50 years.… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Digitize and Archive Family Photos and Videos

This is the first in a series of posts about how a disabled person like me passes the time at home, now that I no longer work. Television is roundly criticized as a colossal waste of time. Granted, there’s a lot of crap on television that deserves to be ridiculed, but I’m here to tell… Continue reading What Do I Do All Day? I Watch (mostly) Quality Television