Today I’m neck-deep in a huge project, trying to get an article started/finished, and planning to spend some quality time adding to my Nano count. Since I’m busy treading water, I thought now would be a good time to see what had you talking last month: When You’re Out of the Office – Sure, we…
Author: lwidmer
Grace and Change
John McCain is a gracious man. Despite an increasingly negative campaign in the last weeks of the campaigning, he has always been a good person. While he wasn’t able to prove it to enough of the people, McCain has a long career of bipartisan service. His speech last night was typical of what I’ve come…
Why Technology Bites
I spent six hours Monday working my heart out on a client file, carefully saving every ten minutes or so. Went to open the file yesterday – yes, it’s gone. Nowhere to be found. I searched for it. Nope. Every unedited version is there, but not the one I need. I looked in the Temporary…
Making Change
We were up at 5 and at the polls by 5:30. They didn’t open until 7, but we weren’t the only ones there – we were third, fourth, and fifth in line. The earliest was there at 5 waiting. Glad we did, too. By 6:15, all the parking spaces were gone. By 7, they were…
TGI…W? (A brief political announcement)
I’m so excited about tomorrow. The election will be over and we’ll know for sure who our new President will be. But that’s not the main reason. No, I’m excited because tomorrow, all the damned phone calls will STOP. I’m on both the state and the national Do Not Call lists. Apparently, nonprofits and partisan…
When Clients are Wrong
What? you say. Can clients really be wrong when the customer is always right? Uh, yes. Recently I had a situation with a client in which he thought I said one thing when emails clearly showed I had said nothing of the sort. It was obvious there was confusion. What wasn’t obvious, to him at…
Friday Mish Mash
I live in a city that’s apparently shut down for some celebration today (Phillies parade at noon – way to go, Phillies!). Congrats to the team and to all the die-hard fans! To those fair-weather fans – those who bitch royally about how that team “owes” them something – you get nothing. Be a fan…
Why Cell Phones Suck
Did you know you speak much louder when you pick up your cell phone than when you’re sitting across from someone at a restaurant? Did you know that I heard every word of your conversation about the dog needing to see a vet for that “oozing, pussing foot” problem? Did you know I heard it…
Moments of Accidental Genius
I know the mood I intended when I started writing my latest novel attempt. I was reaching for a feeling of wallowing depression that encompasses the life of someone akin to Gilbert Grape (read the book – it’s phenomenal; or watch the movie – Depp and DiCaprio are marvelous). How it translated in the writing…
Your New Best Friend
I had a really nice conversation with a PR woman yesterday, one that may turn out to be a lucrative partnership. I used ProfNet on PRNMedia religiously for article sources. This gal has answered two of my inquiries and has supplied me with some great sources. In our last email exchange, she offered the usual…