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Write to Publish http://write2publish.blogspot.com/ Blog by Robin Sullivan, Fairfax, VA Highly recommended. Artists notoriously ignore business and marketing arenas. As Ms. Sullivan says, “I've learned a lot about promotion and business: the two things writers feel the least comfortable with, and yet very important aspects of their writing careers. I discovered this new...

I'm not a religious practitioner of churchianity. I'm an old drunk who found a better way of...

I've been in network marketing for years and over those years I've learned quite a bit. Some of...

When it comes to fitness (and perhaps all areas of life), self-management has to be the ultimate challenge. We can't delegate responsibility for the choices we make to anyone else. And this responsibility includes what we eat and how much we exercise. (Some of us would like to blame dead relatives--our genetic history--but even this approach doesn't work.) Mostly what I've learned about myself...

I was a little late to the party but I’m beginning to develop an appreciation for the potential power of Twitter.Twitter is a tool that immediately gives anyone a voice on the Web. It allows you to “follow” the musings of anyone on Twitter and allows them to “follow” you. The Twitter community is now nearly 5 million users worldwide. Members include CEOs, professional athletes,...

Yes. I am, or was, a member of Mensa. In all actuality, I stopped paying dues when I had kids and found that I no longer had time to actively participate, but I'm still on the rolls and can reactivate at any time...and probably will sometime soon, now that my kids are grown. There are a lot of misconceptions about Mensa in general and mensans in particular. People are intimidated, but...

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...