One of my Writter’s Spa alumnae, Debra Quartermain, a fun and very successful craft designer and author, introduced me to the scrapblogging movement recently. It’s essentially a fun, blog-based slide show that plays an audio track and is just one step short of a viral video in bells and whistles.
You can see the scrapblog [...]

Once …. Long ago … I had a little tiny Mac with a cool little handle on the back. It weighed about ten pounds and the screen was a good nine inches across. Oh yeah, and it was black and white.
My husband and I bought it in 1988, the year we got married. I remember [...]

But then neither is Pam Slim is you look under Pam Slim - but MAN there are a lot of porn-spam blogs in there. (Must be the word ’slim’ ?) My good buddy Andy Wibbels, however, is all over the place. There are even some funny videos of him. 
So how do you get yourself [...]

This is a just plain beautiful viral video … take a moment of your time just to feed your soul. I did and I was glad I did…
My inner Art History major was highly satisfied.

OK … last post I talked about how I’m going to make this 4 hour work week idea a reality. Well, first of all I’ve spent some years building up my web business to the point that it doesn’t need a lot of management by me to bring in a living wage.
I have a great [...]

If you read my blog, you know I’ve been expounding the virtues of Seth Godin’s latest breakthrough book, The Dip. Here’s some cool news to that end… Seth will be getting on the phone with my buddy Andy Wibbels, and then in a separate call with Start Up Nation maestro, Rick Sloan, this week to [...]

OK, so I’m incredibly hot for The 4 hour Workweek. Do you know this great little book? It’s really one to read when your whole business needs a colossal shaking up.
I did a call recently with the author, Timothy Ferriss, who is an entrepreneur with a capital E. Ferriss is an escapee from the [...]

So is it just me or do blogs seem like they might be diminishing in MUST DO importance in people’s lives? I’m not saying that’s an accurate view … but just something in the air I kind of sense.
What’s your take on it? I mean, the fact is that blogs still carry real currency out [...]

Recently, while white knuckling on a wildly turbulent flight that was bucking and weaving, I found solace in a spectacularly funny book, Julie & Julia; My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
Not only is one of the funniest memoirs I’ve ever read - and at the same time most touching … it’s got [...]

Pam Slim, Top 4000 Blogger and owner of the excellent blog,
Escape from Cubicle Nation, recently sent me a cool little book, The
Dip by Seth Godin.
She saw the bald biz guru speak in Arizona
and bought the suggested five books
so she could send on to friends who need to get out of the Dip. (Uh, Pam, [...]