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  {A Very Expensive Lesson} This morning we rushed off to have breakfast before coming home to primp for our first family photo with John. For anyone who knows our family, it’s difficult to get time together with John working weekends and myself writing on deadline. We scheduled this afternoon a month out and walked …

    Sometimes, just listening is the best way to ease the mind…    

Recently, I unfriended someone I actually knew. They had been plaguing my timeline for years with updates on their drink of choice, (at 2pm,) and sob stories about how their life didn’t go as expected. I was often left awestruck by their sense of entitlement and complete lack of empathy for others. I couldn’t find …

    Dear Mr. Perry, America wasn’t founded on a platform of Christianity, it was founded on so much more.  We fought for land of freedom to choose any religion and the freedom to ELECT officials that matched our personal beliefs. America was also founded on the right to practice any believe without scrutiny, or …

  The pictures I love most, often focus the eye on a single element while the rest is quietly muted in the background. They speak to me in a way nothing else does. But blur online, can be a very different thing; damaging your brand what  you’ve worked so hard to create… I ‘ve always …

I had all but pressed, “Publish Immediately,” on a hard-hitting piece about plagiarism and integrity when for some inexplicable reason my finger closed the window. I stood up and walked over to my kitchen. That post had been weeks in the making. Quotes from a well-known lawyer, a wealth of knowledge and insight from a friend and …

Look closely at this screenshot below…. In 2010, the article, “How to Maintain Your Integrity as a Blogger Even When Blogging for Money,” showcased an important point last year on how far one might go to sell-out.  The problem was… they sold out.   …..But, it was about INTEGRITY. As others gushed about the article, …

  “As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” – Marian Anderson   Today’s few words are dedicated not to those years ago who fought tirelessly for our rights as a nation, …

Facebook has been a forerunner in personal networking.  As more companies have joined Facebook, the applications utilizing personal and professional information are also on the rise. Two years ago we saw this same process within Twitter as more and more developers saw a way to profit and join the network. However, an important question is …

There are no words for the awesomeness of this video.  I am thoroughly not afraid to admit that when faced with 24 hours of freakish stress, this was on repeat and I used a spoon as a microphone.

I spent the day with incredible family and friends after going through more biopsies.  I took some Oxycodin tonight to deal with a bit of the pain and as I was crawling into bed I received an email, from Health Partners… at 10:45pm.  The header read, “A new explanation of Benefits is available.” For about 25 …

If I could give you any advice, filling meta-tags with your ex-fiance’s information is satisfying, but it does absolutely NOTHING for your SEO.  Seriously. No one is ‘hilarious’ when they are brokenhearted and bitter. They’re just sad. I spent most my evening typing expletives into my computer.  It’s not a suddenly new past-time, nor is …

  “Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart …

  It all starts with an egg.  If you told me that at 25 I would be happily laboring over the birth of my daughter, I wouldn’t have understood the importance that it was THIS egg.   I sat up last night and wondered, what might have happened if it was another egg, or it …

“A great brand taps into emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions. A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience. It’s an emotional connecting point that transcends the product.” –  Scott Bedbury/Nike, Starbucks   Introduction “Personal branding is the process whereby people and their careers are marked as brands.[1] It has been …

Paying It Forward Every Day: Guest Post by Kirk Baumann  Last Thursday, the world celebrated International Pay It Forward Day.  The day reminds us all to help our fellow man.  Why?  Just because.  Whether it was buying a cup of coffee for the next person in line or simply smiling at a stranger, the pay it …

Perhaps it’s who I am.  I see someone’s blog, (whom I read weekly and love,) putting down government employees with one single sentence and my nose burns, my ears start flaming and my heart sinks: “If anyone had any doubt that most government-run jobs agencies (including unemployment offices) have no idea what they’re doing, here’s …

Dear John Kline, You’re my representative.  But you, voted against me and my daughter.  What did you vote for?  You voted to cut Federal Funding to Planned Parenthood and your vote could cost millions of women their health and my daughter, her mother. You probably weren’t thinking about women’s health, though.  You were thinking about …

I grabbed the stationary from the Washington Court Hotel as almost an afterthought.  The bags were perched by the door and the bed was haphazardly remade to resemble the fact that I wanted to leave the room as I had found it.  I tucked the heavy, creme-colored paper in between the screen and keyboard of …

Updated: December 30th, 2010: The power behind consumers is INCREDIBLE when we band together. Have received tons of emails with ideas, (keep them coming!) and some of the greatest tweets of all time.  Someone’s tipped the Consumerist, Watchdog and others.  We’ll see what happens.  Ironically, I was going to meet with some of the booth …