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  First off, let me lay out who am to the degree that you can get some context. I’ve been blogging for five years, participating in forums two years longer than that, and using the Internet for eleven years. I had a career as a licensed clinical professional counselor prior to health issues which are [...]

What criteria do you feel makes a good QotD? A good Question of the Day should open up the possibilities of an answer that reveals something about me that I might not have thought to write about and in reading other’s answers I’ll be enlightened about them as well. I need to be able to [...]

Go to Disneyland. I’m serious! I’ve had a plan to meet up with out-of-state friends at Thanksgiving in California with part of my family’s time spent in the Land of the Mouse. We go every two years. However, my calculations were based on what I was earning at the time I made the decision. Due [...]

A cup of Earl Grey tea and reduced sodium Wheat Thins. I try to make it just the tea which I take plain ‘cos I like the taste of the tea. I don’t know if tea drinkers in other parts of the world do this but my Canadian parents started giving me tea as a [...]

My favourite Post Secret postcard this week~ Special “purge your bad-Mom,”/ bad karma edition. Warning: Post Secret can be angsty; this week it’s extra angsty. There were a number of really interesting and provocative cards just in time for Mother’s Day-(every year–pub. on Sundays)! In this postcard, I especially like the sentiment expressed as, “How [...]

Since I keep a number of blogs I have about as many reasons for blogging so to simplify, I’ll keep my answer to the most personal one. The reason I blog is because I like to express myself. I’ve been doing a fairly good job of that even before I could write. I am intrigued [...]

Nothing. That’s why we have “dark humour.” The Little Miss Priss side of me wants to say, war, death, disease, crime… but in truth we use humour all the time to cope with these things. If we don’t see even a glimmer of humour in a situation then we are destined be forever glum about [...]

Wow! Today has been exhilarating! I believe it began last night at the Bruce Springsteen show and continued through today with a conference call with a high-profile developer for a high profile blogging system for which I’m on a consumer panel. I suppose because I work on my own so much that it just feels [...]

I think I’m pretty qualified about talking about both home and home office use of printing postage online stamps. Though I hate to admit how fast the years have flown by –and how long I have been online, by doing so I can point to the huge evolution in making life easier for small business [...]

Falling Man: A Novel Don DeLillo I was planning on diving in to the Charles Schulz biography and I did start it but it seems so heavy after Falling Man which I read back-to-back with On Chesil Beach, which itself was definitely not a day at the beach, though thought-provoking and an absolute page-turner. “Schultz,” after reading a review [...]

“The Clintons are in a difficult position,” said Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University in Iowa, who has tracked the presidential race. “If she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, she would need Obama’s supporters. But she needs to be careful. If this talk of him on the ticket is seen as a [...]

Think of 10 Internet years ago compared to today. Remember when AOL was a major player, Google was a quaint-looking but fast growing start-up, Pets.com–remember them with the talking puppet commercials on television? No one really knew what Amazon.com was, people become dot.com millionaires overnight. They were flush with success as were so many other [...]

A police officer was killed Friday morning in a motorcycle accident as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas, police said. The Dallas Police Department said Senior Cpl. Victor Lozada-Tirado was traveling southbound on the Houston Street viaduct when he struck a curb, lost control of the motorcycle and went down. Hillary’s [...]

My sis-in-law is about to give birth to her second baby and I’m she will again share her joy with the world using photo birth announcements. The impending birth is in under 30 days so everyone has been put on notice though there’s one person who probably isn’t going to take notice until the baby [...]