How to Start a Blog

{Have you checked out the free 7-day Start Your Blog Challenge? Sign up here.  Want a free PDF ebook of these instructions? Go here.   Starting a blog is one of the very best things that ever happened to me, and I love to share with folks why blogging is a great...

Should You Pay for Blog Hosting?

When starting a blog, one of the first questions you’ll need to answer is where you want to host your blog. There are two main options for hosting: Free (through a third-party like blogger.com) Paid (called “self-hosting” – this happens on your...

Favorite Things

This is a list of my favorite living things. In no particular order. Rooibos Tea Jeopardy Sylvia Plath Cheddar Cheese House Hunters International Limes Cardigan Sweaters Boots (tall, preferably) Christmas Gelato Excel Spreadsheets Mexican Food Berries Scarves F. Scott...

My Books

I’ve written some books. Some (five six) are published traditionally, some (more) are not. Some are ebooks, some are not. Some are long, some are not long. Here are some of ’em: Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time   Hope Runs: An...
Do You Need a Decision Day?

Do You Need a Decision Day?

As I write this post, I’m at the my office, waiting for my husband and daughter to pick me up to go grocery shopping. This is a pretty obvious ending to the kind of day I like to call a “Decision Day”. Every couple of weeks I have a good decision...