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…
I grew up on the stories of the Depression as told in Reminisce Magazine (back when there was a Reminisce Extra). I lived vicariously through the World War II era tales in the books like We Pulled Together and Won! collected and published by Reiman Publications. I might not be able to quote you exact dates or…
I’m not an auditory learner (I’m a writer; I’m a visual learner). And I don’t like having extra noise turned on in the background (there is usually more than enough noise in a house full of little people). I never thought I’d be someone who listens to podcasts (I don’t even listen the radio very…
When I heard that Kat Lee was turning her How They Blog interviews into a podcast, I knew it was time to start listening to podcasts instead of just hearing about them. But as my friends started talking about more podcasts they loved, I realized I needed a smarter way to listen to the latest episodes. Because,…
I didn’t expect to be surprised by motherhood. My little sister was born when I was almost 12. My baby brother followed 3 years later. I was an old pro at changing diapers and cooking dinner with a baby on my hip by the time the baby I was juggling was my own. I knew…
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