Archive for December, 2008

So many goals, so much time.

In a December 22 article in The New Yorker, Dana Goodyear writes about a new phenomenon of writing in Japan, in I ? Novels. She says the following, The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age. For a new form, it is remarkably robust. Maho i-Land, [...]

Holiday Memories

What are you favorite holiday memories? My mother, a young widow, with two small girls managed to make Christmas spectacular. We had a small apartment so I don’t know where she hid gifts. But Christmas morning we would wake up to a wonderful smell of breakfast. Usually pancakes or waffles something good and gooey. The [...]

Web writing

There are all kinds of blog writing; Personal blogs, business blogs, niche blogs. You can use blogs to give information, vent, create drama, or support a cause. In her blog, Writing on the Web, Patsi Krakoff talks a bit about Blog Writing Goals … a few questions before the end of the year “Writing great [...]

Comments in moderation

When I sign in to WP to create a blog post there are comments waiting to be moderated. Most often they are spam- enlarge this, shrink that, make money this way or make money in half the time it takes you to read this. Junk. There was a time when I got some decent spam. [...]

The 4-Hour Workweek, or How I discovered I Am a Creative Vagabond

Originally published in July 2007 The 4-Hour Workweek, Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss is the hot, new thing to hit the marketplace. Ferriss has created an interesting vagabond lifestyle. This book is the practical side of the Secret phenomenon. It also reminded me of all the Napoleon Hill, [...]

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