Pioneer Woman at Heart

  Pushing myself to be more responsible with my time, I had read about Five Minute Friday, from another blog (My Shasta Home), and felt drawn to participate.  Not my usual post, and in the future, I may be creating a different platform for my writing (short story, novel writing etc.)   I am late in publishing the five minutes to write (with a one word prompt), but you are getting the post now.  Lucky you. First things first, I started to spend way too much time on the internet with social media scrolling.  Not posting, but scrolling.  You know how so much there can influence us right?  The latest and greatest way to organize, new books to read, herbal tea recipes and such?  Don't get me started on recipes.  I am a recipe hoarder, and have really cut that back.  However, I still woke up groggy and the scrolling was with my morning coffee.   I bought myself a devotional while out on a weekend getaway.  It's title is "D...

  It's a happy month for me.   Don't get me wrong, as things can go haywire on any given moment, but good things are happening. Back in 2015, I posted about some writing adventures.   At that time, it was 11 years ago. You can read about them (it's a short post) HERE .  It feels like I put writing to the pasture long before that year, but.... I used to freelance many years prior to that, but put it all aside to raise the kids, and run the household (one was in about 4-5 school sports and activities  - softball, basketball, you name it!).  They were all active in something - school plays, band, sports, etc.  In other words, we were a very active family, so I put my writing on hold.  It wasn't on purpose.  It just happened. Well, back when I had surgery last December, I decided to enter a poetry contest that was local.  I did not win the top prize, but my poem is printed in a book (have yet to pick it up).  Not long after th...

  Any writers here?  Are there any free downloadable programs that are similar to what Word offers?  Other than Google docs and notepad?  Looking for one like Word, in which to use for writing, with options to save to a removeable drive as well as save to the computer.  Font options, italics, underscore, paragraph widths and all the options that Word has. Or an inexpensive program to purchase similar to Word? Our Word program expired a few years ago, and I do not like notepad at all.  It comes in handy for a recipe, but that's about it. Thanks to anyone who can give me recommendations.  I think I follow a few that write books, and possibly a few that keep journals (not blogs, but actual personal journals) using their computer/laptap or tablet.   This tip may be a repeat tip.  Sorry if that is the case.  I started buying 2# bottles of Dawn on sale, and use them to refill our smaller bottle.  Saves us a lot of money, as we can, p...