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Friday Randomness! Bunnies! Voices! Writing! Belonging!
Posted on April 30, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life, relationships, story & craft
Every now and then, my feed reader yields a copious crop of deliciously interesting and fun content. This was one of those weeks. And I feel like sharing. My love for The Princess Bride is legend. As is my love for the 30 Second Bunnies. This week, those two loves were joined in mawwiage. Behold: [...]

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Blessed are the boring.
Posted on April 27, 2010 by Kat French in relationships
People say my hometown is boring. I say it’s not nearly boring enough–too many sirens, meth labs and scared kids for a town of ~600 people. If you ask me, boring is beautiful. Or it can be.

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A life in transit, and making connections.
Posted on April 26, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life, relationships
Most of this post, in bits and pieces, was written longhand on an airplane. I’ve traveled a lot for work over the past two years. I spend a lot of time in airports, hotels, taxis, rental cars, coach seats. I have been a woman in transit, as much as a woman in transition.

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I don’t have an iPhone and you can’t make me buy one.
Posted on April 19, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, relationships
I am a professional social media web nerd person. I literally get paid to Facebook. I don’t own an iPhone. I don’t own an Android phone. Don’t own a Blackberry. I could tell you the make and model of my mobile device, but I’m pretty sure you’ve never heard of it. It’s pink, rugged, has [...]

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LOST: Everybody Loves Hugo: The humble vs the exalted.
Posted on April 15, 2010 by Kat French in story & craft
In the Big Game of Good versus Evil, don’t rely on the “experts.” Don’t put your trust in the people who have trained their whole life to be the hero. Especially don’t trust the people who never question that they know what they’re doing.

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All the Necessary Qualifications
Posted on April 9, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life
My qualifications are largely based on “goofing off on the internet.” What I quickly realized is, there’s “goofing off,” and there’s “self-led professional development.” Aside from being more profitable, I always found the latter more fun, really.

Post Tagged with autodidact, certification, education, professional development, self-led learning, training

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