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Apr
14

Writing To Pay The Rent

Writing To Pay The Rent This isn’t just about writing for income, and I will say that right at the beginning so no one is confused. But it is going to touch on that topic. When I first arrived on the blogging scene, I really didn’t know what it was all about, but many who were beginning to blog at the same time had a much more concrete view of what the purpose of their writing would be. Many of those writers/bloggers...
Jan
16

Zombie Apocalypse Housewives

Gotcha. We were watching the series of the zombie show, “Walking Dead” recently, and in one of the episodes the ideal woman character is having a confrontation with the feminist warrior woman about the importance of each other’s tasks. Our family watched the previous seasons on Netflix, and this scene occurs in season 2 Which matter most, the household tasks and the making of a home, or...
Jan
10

Productivity And The Trouble With Gurus

Productivity And The Trouble With Gurus I read a couple unrelated blogposts today which, of course, I am piecing together in my mind. They do have something, both of them, to do with productivity. Productivity is something I am interested in at the moment. Should I list the posts in the order that I read them? Why would I do that? … it really doesn’t really matter. The Posts First post, ‘Keeping Your Options Open…’...
Dec
9

Be Back Soon- What I’m Doing Right Now

Among other projects I’ve been designing on Zazzle. Remember all those past New Year’s Resolutions I posted on this blog? Well, I’m finally getting to the “making art” part. I even have made a studio for creating some hardcopy original art. Tat will make it to the net in the new year 2013. Here’s my ever-improving work at Zazzle: make custom gifts at Zazzle I also had...
May
22

Your Beliefs Make and Break You

Your Beliefs Make and Break You It is surprising how certain core matters pop up in the most unexpected places. I was reading a marketing article, because I am sales challenged to a certain degree. Like what is probably true for the vast majority of people in my culture, I don’t like to sell. I feel forced to learn how, especially now that I am trying out different business avenues online (Zazzle, for instance). Plus I like...
May
7

Eyes and Health

As a person with long standing and increasingly poor eye health I was very interested in this news about the massive rise in Asian myopia, the suspected cause, and suggested prevention. Consider how much outdoor time your children get during the day… Professor Morgan argues that many children in South East Asia spend long hours studying at school and doing their homework. This in itself puts...
Mar
19

Seven Mountains

Seven Mountains The church I attend has started interest groups that serve to connect people who are called to, or now involved within one of the “seven mountains of influence”. This idea is based from a teaching that seems to have originated in 1975, from Campus Crusade and Youth With A Mission leaders. I was not very informed about it until recently (and still not well versed), but it is an interesting way...
Aug
22

Gay Marriage Clarified

It has taken a long time into the gay marriage debate to reveal the actual way gay marriage accepted as a legal right could change the general landscape on marriage as a whole. For most of the years in which it was actively debated, the premise put forth and accepted by most was simple, “It won’t change marriage, either in concept or law”. The fundamental matter of what change might take...
Apr
5

Watching Lately: The Beatles

I grew up with the Beatles, their music and their impact on the culture. In fact, I owned all their records at one time in my life. So, when my husband got “The Beatles Anthology” five discs worth of video out to watch… I didn’t think I would find much unfamiliar information. I was wrong. It is a set really worth watching and I am enjoying the many interviews that give an entirely...
Feb
27

Americanization

Americanization I ran across an essay that my grandfather, Rev. Arpad Bakay, wrote on Americanization. I am not sure of the date it was published, but it was found as an appendix to “Magyars in America” copyright, 1922. Not a disinterested observer, my grandfather not only knew the experience of immigration first hand, but he, with his faithful and hardworking companion, his wife Helen Bakay ( my...
Jan
24

Atheists and Arguments, Debates Trying Not to Beat the Old Dead Horse

Atheists and Arguments, Debates Trying Not to Beat the Old Dead Horse (too hard!) LOL! It has been several years since I participated in the atheist/Christian debates. After lots of time on forums, a bit on blogs, and of course, the occasional personal forays… I have largely let such debates rage on without me. I still will say that you give enough rope to the Atheist and he will hang himself with his arguments, while the Christian will stand there and gut himself....
Jan
12

Andrew Wyeth and Wintery Thoughts

Andrew Wyeth and Wintery Thoughts I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape . . .Andrew Wyeth (1917- 2009) quoted by Richard Meryman in ‘The Art of Andrew Wyeth’, 1973 Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life Editing a winter navigation page in my garden website which contained that quotation, I looked up “Andrew Wyeth” to find his date of death. That search led to his obituary in the New York...
Aug
10

When Business Gets Hold of Social Media

When Business Gets Hold of Social Media I moaned some number of years back (1999) about the degrading effect that would result from the web turning from an information highway to a marketing one. Now, it is fait accompli, with so many content-empty or sparse websites and blogs filling up the internet. Blogs saw an early symptom in the flood of spamming in the comments and the spammy scrapers (those sites that use rss content to publish others...
Jun
4

Bettering Your Business Through Social Media

Bettering Your Business Through Social Media I blog, twitter, and facebook. Each has its uses, and a recent experience made me aware of how they impact a business. If you read my garden blog, you might know that I have about four acres of property, close to three which need regular mowing. This is the height of the mowing season, and we had already replaced the hand mower earlier, but then the deck mower finally rusted out after 23 years (it was a...
May
31

Ground Zero Joke

I thought it was a joke, however poor in taste, but turns out, it’s real. A group of Muslims are proposing to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York. Read about it, yourself. And here. There are many ways to build bridges between hurt parties, but stepping directly on their toes while pushing something into their faces is not one of them. There is just no way that 911 – a tragedy for our...

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