Resources for a Productive & Creative Life
Every blogger wants to end up on page one of Google–or Bing, or Yahoo. . . It’s an elusive goal for many but not impossible. There are many services that promise to put your blog there–for a fee. I think there may be almost as many SEO-optimizing services and comapnies out there as there are …
I LOVE spring rolls, egg rolls, whatever you want to call them. But they’ve always been one of those things that you get at the Chinese restaurant. Well, one day I had a hankering for some and I picked up a box of frozen ones at the grocery store. They were so nasty that I …
I don’t know where you are, but where I live it is full-on spring here. Spring is a motivating season for me. When the weather gets warm and things start growing again, I come out of my state of semi-hibernation and start feeling the urge to get things done. We plow up the garden and …
In case you haven’t noticed, tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. And despite the fact that the Irish aren’t exactly known for their cuisine (corned beef isn’t really an Irish dish–that’s an American invention, though favored by the Irish in America), they do have some highlights. I don’t do a lot of Irish cooking because it seems …
Spring is almost in the air and while a young man’s fancy may be lightly turning to love, his sweetheart is likely thinking about those wedding plans. Weddings don’t seem to come cheap these days. According to many reports, the average cost of a wedding is about $25,000 or so. Keep in mind, though, that …
Spring is almost in the air and while a young man’s fancy may be lightly turning to love, his sweetheart is likely thinking about those wedding plans. Weddings don’t seem to come cheap these days. According to a recent news report, the average cost of a wedding is $28,000. Keep in mind, though, that figure …
Working from home has become increasingly popular in the last few years. For solo entrepreneurs and micro-business owners a home office has often become their primary business location, whether by necessity or choice. There are many good reasons to work from home. No long commute, no office overhead, no distracting co-workers, no having to get …
I love bread. Oh, man, I really, really love bread. And there is nothing better than fresh-from-the-oven homemade bread. Here’s an easy but yummy homemade baguette recipe. It makes three loaves, which probably lasted all of 27 minutes at our house. I don’t even think they cooled enough to touch before the human vacuum cleaners …
So, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day. And coming off three months of gift-giving occasions in our family, our budget is generally pretty well depleted by the middle of February. Not only that, but I’m not a big jewelry girl and, as much as I LOVE to cook with chocolate, it is not my treat of choice. …
It’s finally cold here. We got about a foot and a half of snow at our house last week, more in other places, not so far away. Something tells me it won’t be melted in a day or two. I guess it’s finally winter. I’m not a native Coloradan and though I’ve spent several years in a …
