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  • irenepsmith (59)in #life • 9 years ago
    featured

    Writing in the Age of Distractions

    (Monday, 2/13/2017) Here I sit on a train, headed to New York City. I'm wearing headphones to drown out the sounds of the train and the people around me. I'm writing on my…
    $1.38
    • Past Payouts $1.38
    • - Author $1.27
    • - Curators $0.12
     76 8
  • irenepsmith (59)in #life • 9 years ago
    featured

    Why I've had Enough of Recruiters

    I have been on and off the job market for the past ten or eleven years. After spending five-plus years as a full-time employee of Medidata Solutions, I have been doing one…
    $22.18
    • Past Payouts $22.18
    • - Author $16.81
    • - Curators $5.37
     212 4
  • irenepsmith (59)in #blogging • 9 years ago
    featured

    Using Markdown with WordPress

    My appreciation of Markdown began when I created my account here at Steemit. I have been using it to write articles in Scrivener for publication here at Steemit, but this isn’t…
    $14.56
    • Past Payouts $14.56
    • - Author $11.06
    • - Curators $3.50
     198 1
  • irenepsmith (59)in #writing • 9 years ago
    featured

    Writers Should be Agile Too

    What is Agile? If you are not involved in software development, you might not be aware of the concept of agile development. The idea is that you track your project by tasks.…
    $1.34
    • Past Payouts $1.34
    • - Author $1.05
    • - Curators $0.29
     122 0
  • irenepsmith (59)in #technology • 9 years ago
    featured

    Are our devices over-stepping their bounds?

    I know the title sounds like something out of Conspiracy Central, but this is a conversation we need to have sooner rather than later. Not because I think that technology is…
    $24.79
    • Past Payouts $24.79
    • - Author $18.66
    • - Curators $6.13
     162 9
  • irenepsmith (59)in #personal • 9 years ago
    featured

    What have I been Doing?

    At the end of December, I signed up for a long list of courses from Udemy.com because they were offering their usually $200 courses for $10. I signed up for web design courses…
    $0.00
       7 1
    • irenepsmith (59)in #personal • 9 years ago
      featured

      Feeling a Little Less Lost

      I haven't been around in a while. In case you actually noticed and/or are wondering where I've been, I started a new job at the end of November and fell into a deep, dark hole.…
      $0.11
      • Past Payouts $0.11
      • - Author $0.09
      • - Curators $0.02
       27 3
    • irenepsmith (59)in #life • 9 years ago
      featured

      Hedwig Taught me to Fly

      http When I was a child, we lived in the same small city where my mother was born and raised. Mom’s father was from Kingston, but her mother was born just outside of Port…
      $0.00
         27 2
      • irenepsmith (59)in #nanowrimo • 9 years ago
        featured

        C'mon, Get Happy! (Chapter 1)

        Friday, November 10, 1972 http Where did it begin? All these years later, I can close my eyes and see the scene just as it was. Lily and I were doing our homework in the…
        $21.98
        • Past Payouts $21.98
        • - Author $16.66
        • - Curators $5.32
         201 2
      • irenepsmith (59)in #life • 9 years ago
        featured

        A Funny Thing Happened on the way to NaNoWriMo

        Life is strange, isn’t it? Monday I was feeling so down that I basically spent the day sitting on the couch, binge watching Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. I spent…
        $14.38
        • Past Payouts $14.38
        • - Author $10.79
        • - Curators $3.59
         112 8
      • irenepsmith (59)in #nanowrimo • 9 years ago
        featured

        C’mon, Get Happy!

        So, where have I been lately? Trying to get ready for NaNoWriMo (for details of what that means, take a look at this post that I did a week or so ago, Do you NaNo? . After…
        $11.91
        • Past Payouts $11.91
        • - Author $8.94
        • - Curators $2.97
         103 8
      • irenepsmith (59)in #programming • 9 years ago
        featured

        Would Anybody Care?

        Twenty-two years ago I wrote a bunch of games for Windows 3.1; games that you might have found at Electronics Boutique or KMart. The games did pretty well but times change.…
        $0.25
        • Past Payouts $0.25
        • - Author $0.23
        • - Curators $0.03
         44 6
      • irenepsmith (59)in #fiction • 9 years ago
        featured

        Simon Says

        Margaret and her brother, Simon, sat on the front porch of the farmhouse where Margaret lived with her husband and children. Croplands stretched in every direction as far as the…
        $2.82
        • Past Payouts $2.82
        • - Author $2.32
        • - Curators $0.50
         14 0
      • irenepsmith (59)in #writing • 9 years ago
        featured

        Do you NaNo?

        It is getting closer to November, and you know what that means… You don’t? My friend @merej99 knows! She has already talked about it in her post, Calling on the Community.…
        $28.22
        • Past Payouts $28.22
        • - Author $22.78
        • - Curators $5.44
         79 14
      • irenepsmith (59)in #iphone • 9 years ago
        featured

        Unboxing the iPhone 7 Plus

        Counting my new iPhone 7 Plus, I have had four iPhones over the years. I had an iPhone 4, 5, 6, and now the 7 Plus. I know that iPhones are expensive, and that they are not as…
        $0.25
        • Past Payouts $0.25
        • - Author $0.23
        • - Curators $0.02
         19 5
      • irenepsmith (59)in #ms-word • 9 years ago
        featured

        When it all goes Wrong! (Fixing Microsoft Word's Default Templates)

        I love Microsoft Word (most of the time) but the program has a bad habit of changing the styles in my default template without telling me. Then I discovered an easy way to ensure…
        $0.39
        • Past Payouts $0.39
        • - Author $0.35
        • - Curators $0.04
         17 0
      • irenepsmith (59)in #steemit • 9 years ago
        featured

        Using Scrivener to Write Posts for Steemit.com

        I have a love/hate relationship with Scrivener . There are some things about it that I love, and some that drive me absolutely insane. After reading about how wonderful it is…
        $0.50
        • Past Payouts $0.50
        • - Author $0.46
        • - Curators $0.04
         29 15
      • irenepsmith (59)in #story • 9 years ago
        featured

        Like Riding a Bicycle

        Soft, silvery moonlight pooled across the hospital bed in the darkened room, highlighting the sleeping face of Michelle’s father. The crisis was over. The reassuring blip...…
        $29.11
        • Past Payouts $29.11
        • - Author $23.64
        • - Curators $5.48
         59 0
      • irenepsmith (59)in #introducemyself • 9 years ago
        featured

        Allow me to (re)Introduce Myself

        First of all, why am I doing this now when I've been around Steemit for a couple of months? Here's the scoop: 1 When I first joined, I posted under the tag introduceyourself…
        $14.88
        • Past Payouts $14.88
        • - Author $13.27
        • - Curators $1.61
         110 23
      • irenepsmith (59)in #life • 9 years ago
        featured

        Twenty Years in the Making

        This week my "baby" will turn twenty. He is in his second year of college, and he wants to direct movies. Here he is at the local car show. This picture was taken a couple of…
        $25.40
        • Past Payouts $25.40
        • - Author $20.69
        • - Curators $4.71
         49 4