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Three Notebooks for Writing & Staying Organized

By Mary | by Mary

I have written about notebooks before on my blog, specifically my calendar journals here and here. I’m surprised, however, that I’ve never discussed my three notebook system for writing and staying organized. At any given time, I always have three notebooks going. One is the aforementioned calendar journal, which contains enough space for me to jot the important happenings of each day of the year. I’ve been keeping a calendar journal for decades now, so…

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Blog Posts Rarely Read

By Mary | by Mary

This year (2026) marks my twentieth year blogging. My official anniversary is September 8, with my first blog post appearing on Filter & Splice, my Blogger blog, on that date in 2006. Honestly, it doesn’t feel that long. At the time, I was trying to blog almost every day because that was the way you were supposed to build a following online. It was a difficult schedule to keep up. I eventually moved to blogging…

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How ChatGPT Summarized My Writing

By Mary | by Mary

Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…

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