As of today, I can finally say that I beat the cigarette habit after several failed attempts. I owe a huge thanks to the e-cigarette, which helped me quit. This topic is so personal and important to me that I decided to write about it when I signed up for a Gotham Writer’s Article Writing [...] Read more »
Writing and Such
This weekend’s cold and wet weather made it a perfect time to stay indoors and write. During this time, I finished a chapter and almost completed another before I was too tired to tap another key. It felt good to write my novel again, after becoming so focused on article writing. I hope to have [...] Read more »
ZOHO: Cloud Computing for Writers
I heard about cloud computing a few years ago, but the title sounded so stupid and airy-fairy that I never looked into it. After writing a couple of articles on the subject for a client, I regretted my earlier attitude. A lot of time could have been save in emailing documents back and forth to [...] Read more »
Blu Cigs: A Great Alternative to Traditional Cigarettes
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been researching the e-cigarette as an alternative to traditional smoking. Blu Cigs won over the scores of other brands on the market for several reasons. Price was the first major factor. The glowing reviews from scores of heavy smokers that have said that they haven’t touched [...] Read more »
Blog to Book Conversion: First Project with FastPencil
Converting my blog into a book is something that I’ve wanted to do for at least three years. But I couldn’t find a converter that worked properly, so I set the idea aside to work on my other projects and forgot about it until I discovered FastPencil. I decided to give it a try. The [...] Read more »
Christmas 2009
I approached this holiday with anticipation and determination. With the passing of my mother-in-law in June, I knew that this Christmas was going to be very different. Christmas was her favorite holiday, a time where she baked a ton of cookies, cooked a huge dinner, decorated every square inch of her house and piled more [...] Read more »
Hitting the Books . . . and Videos
Talk about a crazy, crazy month. Isn’t December always that way? In the middle of all the Christmas craze, I’ve been watching InDesign videos on Lynda.com so that I can gain more than a working knowledge of the program. Much to my surprise, I retained more than I realized when I started working on a [...] Read more »
Establishing New Traditions for the Holidays
This year marks a new tradition for my family. In the years past, my mother or my mother-in-law would cook the turkey for Thanksgiving. All I had to do was make the hors d’oeuvres and help clean up. My mother moved away several years ago, and my mother-in-law has recently passed on. Neither of them [...] Read more »
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