May is National Stroke Awareness Month, and as part of the effort to make people aware of stroke, I’m going to share my own experience. Many people think it’s something that happens to old people, and the occurrence rate is certainly higher among the elderly. However, stroke (a “brain attack”) can happen at any age. … Read more
The horror of what happened at Virginia Tech – the worst mass murder in modern US history – is almost incomprehensible. My heart and prayers go out to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims and to the entire community. I wasn’t surprised to hear news commentators say that students were eager to … Read more
I read a post by Michael Hyatt on his blog From Where I Sit about balancing work with the rest of life. That started me thinking, and I wrote a post about balance in life. Mihaela Lica (Mig) at eWritings – Online Public Relations suggested I transform the post into meme … so here it … Read more
Michael Hyatt has a post How Do You Balance Work with the Rest of Your Life? This is a question many of us struggle with. We want to do it all and have it all. But Mike wisely reminds us that we can’t do it all, so we have to set priorities. He gives his … Read more
I wrote about spam in an earlier post. The problem with comment spam in blogs is getting worse; I’ve found some plug-ins for WordPress that I will try and let you know the results. Update: Success with Akismet! But until I get the plug-ins installed, I’m manually rejecting dozens of spam comments every day. The latest … Read more
Do you ever have to reboot your computer? Something goes wrong, a program crashes, the system locks up … You may experience a moment of panic. You wonder if important data has been lost. Will you have to start a big project all over again? Is the computer damaged? Then you click the restart button, the … Read more
I told in a previous post how it took a crisis before I realized that someday is now, and if I wanted to pursue my writing dream, I had to start. We all can make our lives – and the lives of those we love – better. “The Dash,” the classic poem by Linda Ellis, says this … Read more