inspirational writer and pod designer
Barbara Casey
My name is Barbara Casey. In June 2015, I turned 70 (next milestone birthday is June of 2025). I didn’t want to be an “elderly” seventy-year-old, so I’ve been challenging myself over the years to keep up with new trends, thought-provoking ideas and broader perspectives.
I’ve documented some of this in my review of Chris Guillebeau’s book The Happiness of Pursuit.
Over the past thirty years, I’ve been a tutorial writer with 3 Kindle books and many online how-to articles. Since 2001, I’ve curated and written resources for spiritual entrepreneurs – on Squidoo, HubPages and multiple blogs. Between 1995 and 2002 I published 5 editions of The Metaphysical and Holistic Florida Directory, wrote a marketing newsletter from 2003 to 2009 and conducted numerous teleclasses that were converted to PDF e-books.
I have two Zazzle print on demand shops to augment Social Security, but my main love is writing, reading, and reviewing really good books. So I’ve gathered all my writings from their various temporary homes and herded them back to my own site, under my own banner.
I hope you find something of value during your browsing adventures.
Kate Shugak Novels by Dana Stabenow
Kate Shugak Novels Listed in Order Set in Alaska, this is an uncommonly good mystery series by an Edgar Award-winning author Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak novels feature well-developed, interesting characters, a locale known to few (an Alaskan national park) and...
Inspector Shan Series by Eliot Pattison
The Inspector Shan series begins with The Skull Mantra, which won Eliot Pattison the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel In fact, it was The Skull Mantra that inspired my "Uncommonly Good Mysteries" list, which I first started in 2011. I had just read Eliot...
Cold in the Earth by Aline Templeton
DI Marjory Fleming... a character I've learned to love Aline Templeton's DI Marjory Fleming mystery series has been on my radar for four years, ever since one of my favorite mystery writers, Louise Penny, recommended it on her blog. Alas, my library didn't carry the...
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
My review of The Long Way Home - Louise Penny's 10th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series Many readers of Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache/Three Pines books don’t know what to make of the 10th installment in the series, The Long Way Home. Some found the...
Aubrey-Maturin Series Reading Order
The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian... with Reading Order List Master and Commander is the first book in Patrick O'Brian's wonderful 21-book historical fiction series known as the "Aubrey-Maturin Series." It is also the name of the adventure movie with Russel...
Great American Cookies Cookbook
Great American Cookies - A Vintage Cookbook That's Worth Republishing My favorite recipe books are now considered "vintage." I cannot imagine why Lorraine Bodger's Great American Cookies hasn't been reprinted, but the only versions I've found are dated 1985 (the one I...
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon – Book Review
Our book club loved Outlander by Diana Gabaldon... and then read the rest in the series, like I did (for the second time) I re-read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander for our book club... and got so caught up in the story again, that I devoured the entire series - for the...
“Simple Suppers” Cookbook Review
New vegetarian in search of a cookbook Moosewood Restaurant's Simple Suppers As a fairly new vegetarian, I'm always on the lookout for cookbooks that don't make me feel like a culinary idiot, but that also reflect my cooking style and talents: simple and basic....
A Discovery of Witches Book Review
"A Discovery of Witches" - Book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy In A Discovery of Witches, author Deborah Harkness presents a plausible story of the relationships between the three (sub)species of witch, vampire and daemon... including their battles and their loves. I'm...
How to Make Music Notes with Text Fonts
Musical notes and characters you can make with common text fonts: Courier, Arial, Times New Roman Here are the Windows keyboard symbols for Alt Key, Unicode and HTML formats. If you're using the Alt Key symbols, you'll need to use your numerical keypad with Numlock...
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