Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I am a sucker for any hack that takes any task that feels too big to begin and breaks it down into small pieces. Enter the Delete Week.

Someone posted this on LinkedIn. You set a timer and focus on deleting things from one space, such as email, social media, your phone, or camera roll. When the hour is over, you walk away. It won’t be perfect, but think about how much you can delete and space you can wrestle back.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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There are so many lists of “good” advice out there, but not enough lists of bad advice. This list aims to correct that.

This one especially made me laugh: “Assume a new dopamine hit is a good indication of long-term joy.”

What was your favourite one (or piece of bad advice)?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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One of the most amusing things about Quentin is he absolutely hates birds. There was an enormous storm the other day — thunder, lightning, pouring rain — and I went to check on him. But he was just munching on some dry food and looked up at me with curiosity.

But if he hears a bird chirping outside — and he always hears birds chirping outside — he emits a low warning growl. And then I have to remind him that I don’t control the birds. And they can’t harm him. And they’re less annoying than so many other things in life. I don’t think he believes me.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Quentin turned two months old and went on his first road trip. We went to visit Josh’s parents, and while you can normally leave a guinea pig alone for a day or two with food and water, he’s still a bit too little to stay alone. So we packed the same amount of gear that we used to bring when the kids were little (little carrier and big carrier and playpen and toys and food and and and) and jumped in the car.

He was a joy in the car (he mostly slept) and took a few hours to get comfortable in a different house, but he was a good roommate — I had some fears that he would want to play at 2 am because he could see us — and after his nightly zoomies around the playpen, he went into his big carrier and slept until morning. Road trip plus: Justine got to meet him and give him a cuddle.

I love that he’s such a chill pig and game for any adventure. Plus, I literally feel my body calm when I’m stroking his back. He’s a great travel companion.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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A friend posted a link to a Wikipedia page, which had been edited to contain wrong information. It had 25,000 changes since January 2025 alone, and it looked like there were two main groups of people going back and forth to replace and reestablish immutable facts, such as names and dates. Exhausting and troubling.

Depending on the day you hit the information (or even the hour you hit the information), you may walk away believing one thing or another. It made me think of those old World Book sets or Encyclopedia Britannica — if the information was wrong or biased, at least we were all working from the same information, making it slightly easier to address it because we had all read the same thing.

I learned a long time ago to take anything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt. Someone changed the principal’s name on the twins’ school’s page, and while the new name made me snicker (and it had been up there for two years!), it also highlighted the reality of mass-edited information.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts connected to businesses or sponsored posts.