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DO-WHAT-YOU-CAN-alexandraw-wrote Teddy Roosevelt’s words are gracing my screens and close to my heart this week. As I consider where I’m going with my work and life, I’m trying to look at the here and now rather than wonder what will happen next week, next month, a year from now. Always easier said than done.

Life is iffy and incredible, insane and ingenious.

For years, I’ve mixed other creative work with the unpredictability of a writing career. In the last year or so, I began to long for the days when writing was my sole profession. When writing and editing were what I did when I grew up.

Every time I think that maybe I should have gone to law school, something more secure, I realize that I feel pretty safe right where I am. Even when I’m nervous and juggling and not quite where I’d like to be. I do what I love (though unemployment and a retirement benefits would be nice).

Some days I look around, and it seems like everyone else has it more together. Other days it looks like the inmates are running the asylum. We make judgments like that all the time. It can lead to what my friend Heidi calls “judgment fatigue.” Sometimes we’re right, sometimes we’re wrong. Most times we have no clue what we’re talking about. So much wasted energy. (Related, I highly recommend the book Thinking, Fast and Slow.)

Over at The Conscious Perspective, Heidi has declared this Non-Judgement Week. Seven days enjoying the peace that comes along with viewing others with a kind heart.

And maybe, just maybe, that includes being kind to ourselves, too.

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With my arm in sling last week, I found my iPad working overtime. A tablet was more comfortable to navigate than my desktop - the less I had to use a mouse, the better. But I wasn’t simply trading a desktop for something portable. The iPad was only built to do what it does and do it well. Still, it had me thinking about what I’d do differently if I could make it work as I’d ideally want it to in that moment. A bit more computer-like in the program department but with tablet features.

Basically, I wanted to be able to write a book as easily as I could read one. Veruca Salt sort of stuff. Or so I thought.

In the serendipitous way the universe works, I was asked to join the #TabletCrew for #IntelTablets - and give the new Samsung ATIV smart PC a whirl. I like my iProducts but have used PCs at various times over the years, and they did the job, whether writing a screenplay or a magazine piece. In recent years, especially while writing If Emily Posted and delving further into tech discussions here and at BlogHer, I became frustrated by how divided the two platforms are - most often by users who shun one or the other as inferior. I’m excited to see how I can integrate the two into my workday, and see what I’ve been missing. This writer has some new ideas in the works, and the little black book just arrived tonight. Maybe opening Windows will be the just the breath of fresh air I need.

Also, this Internet Explorer video was a trip down memory lane. And by that I mean, wow, I’m old.

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