Register here. A wonderful opportunity for all you bloggers to register, At No Cost, for this super informative blogging conference live stream, provided you give feedback. If you are free this Saturday, take advantage of watching a few presentations, streaming from Portland, OR, in your own home. Sure beats having to miss this entire conference just because …
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Did you know that airline companies are now advertising travel wear at check-in? The four-piece, wrinkle-free, mix and match ensemble, plus shoes, which will transport you seamlessly from daytime to evening wear? What? You didn’t know? You haven’t seen the ads? Well, neither have I--because they are not viewable. They are only implied. By baggage …
Marv and I have had an unexpected detour in our lives. So I ask you, what would you call it if: 1. your husband is scheduled for an elective surgery that he could have chosen not to get and, during the pre-op work-up, something suspicious shows up on the test results that requires follow-up? 2. …
For $65 you can now buy the newest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Maybe you've never heard of it, but maybe you also have communed with it for hours trying to figure out the "correct" use of commas, quotation marks, capitalizations, etc. In college and in grad school, I used APA format (Publication …
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As I watched the news last night with the ravaging fires in Russia, I could not help but wish them well in my mind and remember a memorable experience we had there a few years ago. See this story under STORIES at the top of the page.
Before I moved downtown, I remember racking my brains to figure out what to do when we had out-of-town guests. Taking them downtown was our usual entertainment because there was little to do in our suburb. Not true, now. One of my sisters is coming tomorrow for her annual visit, and I always try to …
One of the fun things about blogging is having easy access to others that blog on topics similar to yours. And this week I stumbled upon a great blog by a nurse that teaches informatics to her nursing students and makes them write a blog for the course. Now, imagine if I would have had …
Wow, the light has dawned; the road is clear. I just figured out the difference between tags and categories. I thought I knew before because I've read the "help" page on it several times. But no! So from now on, I'll add tags (as well as my already established categories) to my posts and see …
So today I have learned, all by myself, how to add "child" pages under a "parent" page on this blog. Note my spiffy work by clicking "Excerpts" on the header. This "learning" only took two hours. I say this to encourage any illiterates like me that learning is possible. Plus, if the WordPress help menus …
If you've stopped in before, you'll notice that I'm revamping this site. I feel "free" again after three days in bed with the flu. I mean being down and out. Cold. So with a new spurt of energy, I'm clicking on everything in WordPress and trying on new looks. I'm sure there's more to come. …
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