A good friend just told me this story: When my daughter was 2 she developed this phobia of bugs. It was so bad she wouldn't go outside. So my wife came up with the idea…
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Let me preface this post by saying that I am also sick of talking about kidney stones, but they've been the topic du jour in my body for some time now...so, that's what I'm serving…
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So, I got the flu. And, besides the obvious bummerosity of feeling like (for lack of a better word) crap, I have to deal with the issues that surround being a sick and incapacitated freelancer…
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One minute there is no work to be seen...for miles. The next? You have projects and deadlines coming out your ears. In a perfect world, you would have a steady stream of projects flowing in,…
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There are two things at play here: irresponsibility and intensive muse connections. irresponsibility Once upon a time, I would have an inspired writing thought (oft times in the middle of the night) and even if…
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1. Because your competitors will. The knee jerk reaction to the recession is to cut advertising. The classic example from the Great Depression is Ford and Chevrolet. Ford was outselling Chevrolet considerably at the outset…
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Dear...all of you, As I was explaining the concept of blogging to a non-web-type the other day, she asked me, 'So is blogging the new letter writing?' It's been percolating in my brain ever since.…
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Yes, you are still at the Writing Roads Blog, aka. Blogging Roads! Last night my dear designer, Leslie Tane, surprised me by expanding my blog into three columns with a new theme called Amazing Grace, a…
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I happen to live in an intentional community on Martha's Vineyard. Maybe you've heard of co-housing? Basically, a group of people decided to build a neighborhood with both shared and private space...and work together to…
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Here's an example of someone, not Paris, succeeding online with video. Etsy just produced this mini-documentary of my friend Susan Gibbs and her revolutionary MV Fiber Farm which is the world's first natural fiber CSA…
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