Bob Younce over at The Writing Journey has taken on a lot of memes lately. One standout: the Dream Meme. The rules, which I lifted nearly verbatim from Bob’s post, are as follows: Write a short paragraph describing your dream. What is it that you want to accomplish? It doesn’t have to be career-related, though…
Why I Hate Bidding Sites, and Why You Should, Too
There are some pretty crappy job postings out there on the Internet, and a few of them prompted more than one post from me begging you to avoid job posting sites. Yet even with the $4-an-article job posts we’ve all seen and avoided, there are some job postings that are worse. Yes, worse. Kathy Kerhli…
Revisionist History
I have a friend who is a wonderful person, but whose memory of the past is steeped with imagination. Recently, she took a piece of personal history and revised it to sound like one of our mutual friends, who was approaching a business deal very cautiously, was an absent-minded putz. I had to remind her…
Havin’ a Heat Wave…
Who wants to work when it’s sweltering out? Sure, I’m sitting in an air-conditioned house, but the study is on the southern side, so by noon, I’m going to be marinating in my own sweat. That I have to interview someone at 1 makes it tougher to be in this room, but I can escape…
Friday’s Favorite Blog Posts
Forgive the late posting here today. I was tied up with a complex project all morning and just managed to sign off on the first pass. Somehow, I now feel like another vacation is in order… I was tooling around the blogs this week and found some real gems. First, on CatalystBlogger: The Benefits of…
Leaping
Rogue Ink’s Tei and some of her posters on her latest post about Taking the Leap lamented that jump from preparing to be a writer to actually being one. Ladies and gents, I feel your pain. We all do. We’ve been there. We still visit there once in a while. This post is for you….
Things I Learned on My Vacation
1. You cannot sleep sitting upright on a moving plane. You just can’t. It’s the head-bobbing thing. Unless you have a rubber neck, it’s not happening. And the seats just don’t recline enough. Nap before you leave. 2. They call them pounds for a reason. Just try walking with a pocket full of them. It’s…
I’m Baaaack…
… did ya miss me? 🙂 We landed on American soil late Saturday afternoon. I much prefer the flight home to the flight there – if you can catch a small nap on such a crowded flight (not likely with the row mates I had bouncing in and out, digging under the seats, reaching into…
Your Mid-Year Report Card
Remember those resolutions you made 6 months ago? Remember January 1, 2008? Remember how fresh and new that day, that new year was? Remember feeling like reinventing yourself or your career? So how are you doing with those? Thought I’d forget about them, didn’t you? Not a chance. See, I don’t do resolutions per se….
Miss Me Yet?
Still out on vacation, but I’ll be back on Monday. In fact, my post for Monday was written a week and a half ago – you’ll not want to miss it. Let’s just say it’s a timely reminder that could help reset the career path… Since I bailed out on writing anything in advance for…