Articles Archive for April 2009
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No ranting today. Just some simple observations.
I wanted to post the next installment of Claire’s People today, but didn’t get to the edits because I completed my taxes.
I wanted to write several posts for The Spring Chronicles today, but I couldn’t because I had consulting work that needed doing.
I wanted to spend an hour working on my non-fiction manuscript today. Research for a meeting that I have tomorrow took precedence.
I didn’t do what I wanted to do today because I was doing what I had to do.
I had to …
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This week I interviewed Suzanne Bird-Harris, my web Diva. Check out her website vAssistant Services.
Suzanne gave me some really great info. Take a listen. Leave a comment.
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At my old gig, we had an accounting program that allowed the user to “drill down” and get specific information about a line item in the budget. It actually had a little drill icon for affect. It was a basic, but very good way to get from the general to the specific.
A seemingly random thought for a Tuesday morning. Except it’s not.
I woke up this morning thinking about how a year ago this month I gave notice and was well on my way to self-employment. It was my first step …
Writer's Block »
My Mondays usually start off pretty much the same. I get The Girl up and out of the house, make a cup of tea, watch Good Morning America while writing out my week-long To Do list, and then I begin to actually whittle down the list.
No big deal, right? Everybody does it.
Except this week The Girl is on spring break, and I have no idea what we are going to do this week. So far, I’ve come up with the following:
movies
the driving range
grabbing our cameras and heading downtown as if …
Diva Reads »
Synopsis
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found “the One”—the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee in the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric childhood and her relationship with Jean through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks.
I truly enjoy reading British authors. Most of the time. Crocodile Soup was the selection …
Diva Sound Bytes »
This week, I interviewed AfroGeek mom Conseula Francis. We had a great time. This Diva is way cool.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
