Feb 5, 2009
As someone who’s worked at a distance or virtually for over a decade I’m always looking for productivity tools. Over the years I’ve found a few helpful applications over the years but nothing has stuck besides my white board and notebook for daily...
Dec 9, 2008
If you watch the news then you get all the negative economic information, the unemployment rate is going up – some predicting we’ll get to 10% – but remember that means 90% of people have jobs! That is an important thing to remember in our trying...
Nov 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving – now read on to see if you’re a geek! You might be a geek if you’d rather tweet on twitter than have a conversation with someone across the room. You might be a geek if you tweet that you’ve fallen and bumped your head...
Nov 25, 2008
If you love words and being creative then this is a great community site where you’ll feel at home. If you’ve got a word you’d like to share then create an account and submit it. You’ll get some immediate feedback confirming you’re really...
Nov 18, 2008
I share links all the time on Twitter so thought I should make it a daily post on the site. And since this is the first post I’m going to include many of the sites I tweeted over the past couple of weeks — hope you enjoy. tidyFavorites.com TidyFavorites...
Nov 6, 2008
Twitter became mainstream when CNN started using it on air to get feedback from their viewers. And of course we know it’s made it when Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart make it funny! Next we’ll see it on Saturday Night Live — I luv it when Stephen...
Oct 23, 2008
OK, if you thought this would be a story about the great moments I’ve shared making pies with my mother. Well, not today. And although we spent the afternoon making two pies it wasn’t a “Rockwell” moment, but it is a great memory. We had a...
Sep 6, 2008
We didn’t get much damage from hurricane Gustav but we were lucky. We do have piles and piles of broken trees and limbs, there were frayed nerves, restless children, and wet dogs but everyone is OK. No one I know lost their homes although several have holes in...
Aug 30, 2008
I know I’m not the first one to deal with parents getting older. But since I’m the youngest in the family I didn’t figure the responsibility would fall only on my shoulders. And really I can’t complain, both my parents have been healthy and...
Aug 30, 2008
OK, to be clear, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be. I came home to Louisiana a week ago to help my parents after my mother fell and fractured the second vertebra in her neck. I flew into New Orleans a week ago worrying about the hurricane and have...
