New Ideas for Blog Posts: 5 Inspiring Places to Visit

You surf the internet every day, reading, skimming and bookmarking all the items that you love. Hundreds of emails, images and ideas cross your path each and every day. Sometimes, there’s so much to see, it can actually be stressful or overwhelming. For writers, having content infiltrating your day can present different challenges. While most wonder […]

How to Create a Pinnable Photo

Learning how to create a pinnable photo is the first step in using Pinterest as a tool for generating traffic to your blog. I find it consistently ranks as my #2 source of traffic after Google searches.  Making sure your images are optimized for Pinterest lets you take advantage of all that this fabulous platform has […]

The 5 WordPress Plug-ins You Must Have

My first “proper” blog was on Blogger. I say proper because I used to have a blog on something called Maxpages and it was a hot mess! When I started my blog, I signed up with Blogger because it was really easy to use. I didn’t have to know anything about coding and the little […]

How to Banish Writer’s Block

As a blogger, your time and attention is constantly torn. You have social media accounts to engage on and grow, traffic to monitor, correspondence to maintain, editorial calendars to create, deadlines to meet and accounting to follow through.  Writer’s block happens when you sit down at the computer and have absolutely no idea what to […]

How Facebook Has Changed Birthdays

If you’re over twenty years old you probably remember receiving phone calls from family and friends or cards in the mail on your birthday. If you received ten calls and ten cards you were Wowed. Flash forward to the present. Enter Facebook. You can have anywhere from 300 to thousands of “friends”. Facebook makes it […]

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Trademarks And How They Relate To Your Blog

So you have an online identity. Perhaps you own a blog or contribute regularly to an online discussion or bulletin board. Have you considered your identity or brand, as it relates to legal issues? What about mentioning other people’s or company’s brands (i.e. trademarks) in your blogs? Trademarks And How They Relate To Your Blog […]

Understanding Anxiety – Which Disorder is it Anyway?

It starts with a feeling of restlessness. I can’t sit still in one place too long. I try to listen to music. Read. Surf the Internet. Nothing catches my interest. The restlessness grows. Am I hungry? Am I thirsty? I try satiating both. Nothing helps. Now, I’m getting nervous, my heart beats faster. My eyes […]

Turn Your Garage Into A Workshop Part 3

Recapping our progress up to this point, we have painted the walls, installed some re-purposed cabinets and covered the floor with epoxy.  Now we need to add some workspace.  I had a lot of options to choose from at this point.  I could buy pre-constructed workbenches from one of the home improvement stores.  I could […]

Turn Your Garage Into A Workshop Part 2

Picking up where we left off last week, Turn Your Garage Into A Workshop – Walls, Heat, and Cabinets, I have painted the walls and ceiling and installed a few cabinets. The floor has a few stains on it and is bare concrete. Now it is time to decide what to do with the floor […]