E Jean Simpson, BEd, BA, MA Author A & J PEI Treasures

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post.  This week I am doing a stream of consciousness type blog post and podcast pairing up some very unlikely topics.  If you want to find out more then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Thank you Andrew Simpson for help with the proofreading...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss the concept of reality for my Halloween edition! If you aren’t confused about it as a concept, you will be! If you want to find out more then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Dramatic Organ, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.u...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss the importance of recognizing patterns and how this can be life changing and is part of the creative process. If you want to find out more then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Thank you Andrew Simpson for help with the proofre...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss the importance of interconnectedness and point out one particular type of interconnectedness that many do not really think about. The connections start at the seed and move out touching everyone's lives! If you want to find out more then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://free...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss the vehicles of inspiration and how it can be important and you have to look for it and sometimes you just find it. If you want to find out more, then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Thank you Andrew Simpson for help with the...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss the importance of art in the population of people with disabilities and to everyone in general. I do not feel I over estimate its importance when I say that art can save lives. If you want to find out more, then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applau...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week I discuss my choices of e-books and photography and why they are important. Not every flower is perfect, yet they are as created. The art of photography and reality based e-books is to capture the beauty of reality! Sometimes nature is a metaphor for all of life.  There sometimes is a bigger message...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post.  This week, I talk a bit about what I feel makes our area magical for opportunities to explore.  It appears as the Sun has magically been caught by the rigging of the boat.  There is magic everywhere if you look for it!  If you want to find out more then….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesou...

Method Behind the Madness Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week, I talk a bit about the art forms I use and why I use them in my e-books and online! If you want to know more….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Quotes from: David Morrell I have one of my children’s e-books up fo...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week, I talk about a huge crisis that we have a chance to do something about if everyone would ask some hard questions! If you want to know more….stay tuned! Applause courtesy of Freesound : https://freesound.org/search/?q=applause+51743&am … Quotes from: Captain Jack Sparrow Joe Maddon CTV News https://at...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. This week, I talk about a situation that is being addressed at a local school and now is hitting our Government. It is a problem that seems simple to solve, but is more complicated and yet simpler. You will find that often the issue in view is not the whole issue and there are components that need to be conside...

I Don’t Know What is Popular but I Can Tell You What Tempts me to Follow or Not on Twitter Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. I have seen many different blog posts on what to do or not do with regard to online media. There are many posts to tell you how to get people travelling to your site, so I decided that I should tell you what I do and don’t en...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. After reading about yet another ‘influencer’ story gone wrong, I have come to the conclusion that influencers should be older people rather than younger ones. If you want to know more about this and experience some very dry humour.  If you want to hear more about why one should be the one and only incomparable...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. The world is an interesting place. No one’s life is perfect or we wouldn’t be striving to make it better. Everyone has a real life and one they present the world. Each person is special and unique and you can’t measure yourself against others. Just be the best you can be. If you want to know more about the author/a...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. In the past year or two, I have realized that we now treat being an introvert as something to ‘get over’ or ‘get past’. The push toward everyone becoming an extrovert seems to be in the media and gives people the idea that maybe there is only one good way to be. I disagree. If you want to find out more…either keep...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. My philosophy is to be creative and it's ok to be different. We don't all need or want to be one size fits all cookie cutter bloggers, authors, artists or people. It's ok to be, but also know there are options. Be a butterfly and open your wings! There are things that need to be done and we have the methods. Applau...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast from my blog post. Today will center on dreams and goals and their importance to the life of anyone and to this artist. I also discuss their place in lives of authors and artists. You get a little of my author/artist philosophy. If you want to learn more, stay tuned or read my blogpost. Links in my podcast and blog post: I have o...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post. It is necessary in life to be flexible and find different avenues when one particular one doesn’t fit for you or isn’t working for you anymore. You need to have boundaries clear of what you are willing to do or not willing to do. Everyone needs to make these boundaries for themselves. If you want to learn more, sta...

Welcome to this week's A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast from our blog post. There are different ways to think of anything in life. These are the trifecta of opportunity, challenge or disaster. There are, of course different variations of these and different variations of the trifecta. There are ideas out there worth taking time to ponder and may change how you see things. Some...

Welcome to the A & J PEI Treasures E Jean Simpson author podcast and blog post.  The life of anyone including authors, artists and people in general depends on choices one makes.  It also depends on choices others make.  Some choices really aren’t what they seem to be.  Some seem to be poorly thought out and others seem to be, at heart, good but will cause difficulty down t...

If we want to move forward, we need to develop into a more tolerant and caring world. With some of the media, we have seen that there is still a shocking amount of intolerance in Canada and we see the product of racism in the past. There is a lack of understanding that the truth is to be learned from, not feared and history has taught us some serious lessons. Things have to change. The only thing...

A part of every author or artist or any person's job is to find ways to make this a better world.  Here are just some small ways that one can help.  Even Sam the Wonder Dog is getting his work in!  If we can, so can you!   Links that I talk about in my podcast include:   The Keeping Cats Homed site:   https://www.keepingcatshomed.com/ The Prince Edward Island Humane S...

Every author has parts of their art that are harder and they don't like as much.  For me, it's "Cyber Issues".  So, when the sea gets rough, you really are the only one who can save your own ship from sinking.  Read or listen to my podcast to find out more about the wild ride that is the no budget Indie Author life!  Also, not in my podcast as I found out after getting it set b...

Despite appearances, arts and authorship, much like life, is not always all wine and roses.  If you want to learn more about my take on some of the issues of the world of publishing e-books, continue with the post!   Being Realistically Unrealistic is not always the easy way to be but it works for me.   Article I quote:   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/12/amazo...

Note:  Sorry I'm running a little later today.  Our Ebay was hacked.  Ebay reacted quickly.  Will be reporting it to RCMP later.  Scamming costs everyone :-(   Even as the buds burst forth from the trees in the spring, our social conscience needs to be given food for thought.  If you want to learn more, continue to read the blog post or listen to the podcast! &nb...