I’m a little bit into fitness. I run and hike, I try to eat right (mostly), and I track my steps with a fitbit knockoff. For those of you not into the fitbit movement, it’s a bracelet that tracks my steps while I go about my day. And my husband thinks it is the most […]
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My husband and I recently got back from a mountain wedding. We stayed at a ski resort and rode the gondola up to the ceremony and reception. It was a beautiful wedding, and an awesome trip. While we didn’t get to sightsee as much, the mountains were incredible, especially the peaks that were dusted in […]
Read MoreI’m going to add something new to my blog: quote dissections. As you are already aware of, I like to use quotes, and sometimes a few words can have powerful meanings. So I am going to dissect them. Today’s quote rings true with a lot of things. We live in a society where people are […]
Read MoreBusiness is about strategy, and strategy requires trying new things to see what works best. If you notice on my website, I have made some changes to the style, and have added a store. I’m in the process of incorporating my Black Cat Scribbles store, my Teazzed store, and my own organizational tidbits that I […]
Read MoreFeedback is always appreciated. When I get criticism or evaluated, I always look at it as a chance to improve. I may not have the same opinions as the criticizer, but I will look into whatever the complaint is about. Now, if you totally snub your nose at my stuff without having even looked at […]
Read MoreLast month I sat down at my computer to do some marketing for http://www.BlackCatScribbles.com, and I had my breakfast shake with me. It was left over from the previous school year, but I had been having a shake occasionally from my leftover stash so I could concentrate on getting stuff done. On this particular day […]
Read More2 updates on projects: That new invention idea I’ve been working on quietly in the background, the one with the headphones, has failed yet again. I’m pretty sure my theory is sound, I just need a good way to implement it. It’s a pretty cool idea that could be super beneficial, if it would just […]
Read MoreWhen I was doing freelance writing more often, I came across some bad writers. People actually sent me stuff that looked like it went through a grammar shredding machine. Those projects took a lot longer to polish and get back on track. Some people had better grammar and sentence structure skills, and I could put […]
Read MoreMany moons ago when I wrote my first novel and went to a writer’s conference to try to get picked up by an agent, I had to come up with a pitch to sell it. At the time, I thought that meant a summary of my work, and so I came up with this paragraph […]
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