Can you believe that?  Floating strawberries?

Well!  Actually, it’s quite true!  I attended the Mother’s Day tea party for my youngest son, and for a yummy treat, the kids donned on their Food TV personas and hand-crafted strawberry shortcakes. 

Now, as a devout Atkins kinda mom myself, I shunned the cake and reached for my cup of paradise (ie, coffee).  I was about to sip and enjoy when all of a sudden….

An opportunity arose!  I’m used to enjoying various no-calorie sweeteners in my coffee…and other only thing I could spy with my little eye was (gasp!) real sugar!  The horror!  The agony!  But instead of panicking and completely melting down being mildly unhappy, I chose to [Read more]

Morning,

You know, I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason.

You might not know today, or you might not know next month, or you might not know 4 years from now…but everything really does happen for [Read more]

You’ve probably read tons of "how to build self-confidence" articles in blogs and dozens of "you can do it!" self-affirmations and scores of "make it happen today!" posts to last you a lifetime.

 And generally, I adore these kinds of posts myself; positive attitudes and self-confidence can go light-years towards making one successful online.

Which, of course, is why I have to rock the apple cart, tip the bathtub, spread the peanut butter on the down side of the toast, fill up the car with water, shine up the trumpet with sandpaper, mix the coffee with carrot juice….in other words, present ideas from the other side of garden!  With that, let me now ask you: [Read more]

<YAWN!> it’s SOOOOO nice to actually achieve a solid 8 hours of uninteruppted sleep.  Okay, that’s a lie, as my son came in at 1am to sleep on various/sundry pillows on the floor…but luckily he wandered back when he realized the Pokemon comforter was much more appealing than the parents’ room.  Ah well, these things happen.

But as I was sleep-walking to the Machine of Worship (ie, my coffeemaker), I was having an intense (as intense as you can achieve when you’re half-awake) discussion with myself about my work online.  Do I love it?  Do I do it only to make money?  Is it sustainable?  Will Luke marry Laura?  You know, those kinds of questions.

It reminded me of Steve Job’s commencement speech back in 2005.  This is required [Read more]

Tip of the Hat Alert!

I’d like to publicly thank Darren Rowse, his commentors and his guest poster Chris Brogan for the article How I Use Twitter to Promote My Blog.

I’ve been following Darren now since I got into pro blogging; super super resources the man has to offer.  I especially like his ‘Featured Post’ layout, and decided to implement that on my site - finished it this morning.

As a guest blogger on Darren’s site, Chris wrote:

…Instead of telling your Twitter audience that you’ve published a new post, ask them their opinion on the core topic you’ve covered. “Do you think banner ads are dead?” followed by a link to your site is much more appealing than posting to Twitter, “Banner Ads Are Not Dead.” Asking a question engages your Twitter followers and solicits their experience.…MORE…

 I’ve [Read more]

Morning all,

Today is Easter and Purim!

And you know what that means:

Family!

At the holidays!

In other words, possible (dare I breathe it)

STRESS!

Oh, just THINK on the ecstatic joys of spending 18 hours cooking the Easter dinner! or the Purim feast! only to encounter family members with children who could double as surly Minotaurs, relatives whose idea of helping out is NOT stepping on the dropped salad flung their by their darling children, people whose idea of Live and Let Live ends when [Read more]

QUICK!  Tell me the first thing that pops into your mind when you read:

VACATION

Is it…

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