My grandpa went home to be with Jesus on September 11. I shared the following tribute at his memorial service on September 21. There are two smells that I will always associate with my grandpa: fiberglass and butterscotch. Grandma and I never could understand why he didn’t like chocolate, but I loved making him butterscotch…
I’m an all or nothing kind of girl. When I clean the closet, I have to do it all in one day. If I’m going to organize my office, I need time to do it all at once. And if I’m going to make changes to our family’s diet, I want everyone to be on…
Kefir soda is a probiotic beverage filled with all sorts of good bacteria. It’s like getting all the benefits of eating healthy yogurt while drinking something as flavorful as your favorite carbonated drink. It’s a great replacement for a soda pop addiction, and a healthy alternative to sugary fruit juice. Kefir soda is made by culturing…
Gmail is the email app and address of choice for many. Whether you use a free @gmail.com email address, or pay to use Google Apps with your @yourdomain.com address, Gmail provides powerful features that are unrivaled among other email providers. But most Gmail users only scratch the surface of the options available to them within the Gmail…
The concept of an empty inbox has become almost laughable these days. With smart phones and devices of every variety, we have access to our email everywhere, all the time. Social media provides a whole new set of inboxes, not to mention notifications that arrive via email. There’s also the fact that most of us…
They called me over in the hotel breakfast room. “Excuse me, how old are your children?” she asked. “Five, three and a half, and almost two.” Even my reply sounded tired as I stopped to calculate. “We’ve been watching them and trying to guess,” they explained. “They are so well-behaved!” I didn’t know whether to laugh…
Are you tired of finding an email buried in your inbox weeks after you should have replied? Are you overwhelmed by the ever growing count of unread messages in your inbox? Are you frustrated at how your inbox takes over your day? Here are seven steps to help you take control of your email inbox…
Dear Grama, It was from you I inherited my love of the written word. Some of my earliest memories of you are watching you at your typewriter. I was fascinated to watch the letters appear on the paper, and even more intrigued at the way the correction tape could erase them when I distracted you…
Dear Papa, I knew something was wrong that morning. I woke up at your house and you weren’t sitting there at your table by the fire. You were always there. Every morning and every evening. At night you were making notes on your veterinary clients of the day. At daybreak you were taking notes on…
When I first started sifting my blog archives, I asked myself only, “Which posts need to go?” But the more I re-read, the more I began asking myself, “Which posts need to stay?” As writers, it’s easy to view the written word as sacred. We can’t bear to think of deleting a single post we’ve published,…
You were on a roll with 31 Days to Earning with Amazon. You started using your Special Links as naturally as punctuation in your blog posts. You set up automatic disclosures in the same font size and color as the rest of your post. And you always disclosed before an affiliate link. Always. But then…
Mastermind groups take many shapes and forms. Some meet on Facebook whenever they’re online, others have an hour conference call once a week, still others are a tight group who can email each other about anything any time but might not take advantage of that very often. But regardless if it is a laid back group…
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