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Hate Having to Hit the IOS 10 Home Button Twice? Here’s the Fix

September 23, 2016 / Life, Tech Tips & Product Reviews / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

Don’t you wish that sometimes companies would just leave well enough alone? I mean, Apple–really…? Don’t even get me started on why you never thought it would be useful to have a Backspace button.

BECAUSE ONLY HAVING A DELETE BUTTON IS BEYOND @%#$! IRRITATING!!! But that’s a conversation for another day.

Today, let’s just talk about whoever thought it was a good idea to have to hit the home key twice to access the home screen. The lock screen is … Read More

Chop Wood, Carry Water

August 7, 2016 / Life, Nature / By Karen Shanley / 8 Comments

As my day begins in the hush of predawn darkness, as usual, I make my way outside with the dogs. Looking up at the stars, I listen to the muffled sounds of paws padding through dew-covered grass. And I think about how my life has changed over the years.

For someone looking from the outside in, the changes would appear fairly dramatic. So much so, that if assigned with the task of matching up my “then” with “now”, most people … Read More

Best Glass Cleaner. Period. And How to Stop Cardinals From Dive Bombing Your Windows

May 22, 2016 / Life, Nature, Tech Tips & Product Reviews / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

I’m going to be a fountain of useful information today and provide you with two invaluable tips.

I’m on a mad cleaning tear. Happens every few years. Clutter accumulates until I can’t stand it anymore, and then I go on an extreme purge. What doesn’t get thrown out or given away gets a good cleaning and/or properly put away. Which also means every window in the house gets washed inside and out. (I know many people have the time to … Read More

Best “People Training” Book

April 10, 2016 / Life, Tech Tips & Product Reviews / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

People who love their dogs are used to reading dog training books to help their dogs achieve their full potential, so they may live with their family in the most enjoyable way for all parties concerned. And I’ve recommended many of those books over the years, as I’ve discovered new favorite ones.

I had a friend turn me on to what I would describe as one of the more enlightening “people training” books I’ve read in a long time. While … Read More

My Primary News Source

March 17, 2016 / Life, spirituality / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

If you pay attention to the news, it seems we are living in crazy times. Even though I try to remind myself that’s not entirely true–it’s just that “crazy” sells and the media is buying. I do my best to do my own ferreting out to find the truth, which mostly means staying away from what passes as “news” these days.

Sitting in a restaurant last night, my table was facing a grandmother, mother, and young son. As they were … Read More

Anybody Up for a Game of Hockey?

February 7, 2016 / Life / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

If the weather forecast holds true, next weekend I foresee lots of grown humans coming over and remembering how to play again. The sound of slap-shots will reverberate for hours. And hot chocolate will pour freely.

We love our pond. But it’s not often that we get the perfect conditions where it’s cold enough, long enough, for it to freeze deeply enough without snow mucking up the whole deal. That’s why we get excited when we see this.

Having grown … Read More

How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Super Cookie Tracking

November 5, 2015 / Life / By Karen Shanley / Leave a Comment

I have a real problem with the loss of privacy and the escalation of personal tracking to serve us ever more advertising. Verizon is about as bad as any company gets, in my book. Read the following Gizmodo article for yourself. And then take the precautions listed below.