Twitter is, of course, the social networking rage. Seems like everyone from corporations to small businesses to solopreneurs to politicians are tweeting. And with good reason, I some people find it addictive. There are posts galore on how to best use Twitter to promote yourself or your business, how to not waste time on Twitter, […]
I just found mine. It wasn't really lost, in the sense that it was something I desperately missed. It was more like it was buried under the multitude of interests and ideas that crowd my sometimes-mushy brain (too much going on in there!) It wasn't even something that I felt I needed. The experts, however, […]
I took down my Christmas tree on Thursday night. I know I'm a bit late in getting this done, but I've had good reason. I developed a bit of a system this year. First, I removed the soft ornaments, home-made stuffed fabric Christmas shapes and gingerbread men, as well as furry bears from various sources. […]
At the hospital, time flows differently. It moves slowly during long stretches of waiting for something to happen. Then, all of a sudden, everything happens at once. The nurse arrives for a blood pressure check, someone comes in to draw blood, a technician arrives to cart the patient off for a X-ray. The patient is […]
It is New Year's Eve, 2008, the cusp of a new year. I'm a wildly optimistic person and every year I proclaim that the next year is going to be the best yet. And, nearly everyone of them turns out to be best in some arena. It may be very difficult for some people to […]
It has come to my attention that this blog is now available for subscription on your Kindle. (I hope that you, unlike me, are lucky enough to have one.) Not only that, but yesterday this very blog reached best seller status, achieving a rank of #16 on the Lifestyle and Culture Kindle Blog list. As […]
I'm reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, and, like an obsessive lover, I can hardly keep my hands off it. I steal moments during the day to read it, I read it at night and I wake up thinking about the book. This kind of getting lost in a book doesn't […]
My screenwriting friend Marc sent me a link to an article by Lawrence Konner, writer for a gazillion projects including Planet of the Apes (!) and multiple upcoming movies that sound blockbuster-ish. There's a lot of good bits in this article, so much so that you could take any one of Konner's pronouncements and expand […]
Everybody left today. Our house party began a week ago, when the snow started falling and didn't stop for days. There's still snow on the streets, but now it is accompanied by deep tire ruts filled with water, because it is raining. Hooray! We Oregonians love the rain. At least this Oregonian does. Regretfully, I […]
Its been snowing in Portland since Saturday and now we have about a foot on the ground. I know that most of you consider Oregon a northern state and you thus assume that we always get a lot of snow, but such is not the case. Its been five years since we've gotten an appreciable […]
