If you follow this blog, you know I host the Front Porch series about everyday stories—stories friends exchange on front porches, back yards, or in break rooms in snippets throughout our ...
Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
Nearing Half Way
I realized today that we're lightening close to midyear. When the realization hit me, I started thinking about my highs and lows for the first half of 2010. Since I try not to focus on low points, even though they have their purpose in life, I decided to highlight some of my highs for 2010 thus ...
What I Learned from Racing
Even though I've had to stop racing (e.g., marathon, triathlon, cycling, open-water swimming), I am aware that I dig into my racing and training memory banks often to power me though my day. I'm capturing the essence of a few gems in this post—even if ...
What’s She Saying?
Fill in the speech balloon and win a custom web/blog button! I've been creating my own science-related graphics since college and grad school, but have also branched out into other areas of graphic design. (See examples of headers I've created for fellow blogger ...
JBN Guest: The Tao of Blogging
Hi All, I'd like to introduce you to Brad, the author of Word a Day Wonder and fellow logophile. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Brad's post today. Schmooze with Brad on Twitter, or get right to down to it by ...
Book Review: What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life?
By Bruce Frankel ~True stories of finding success, passion, and new meaning in the second half of life~ When Lisa from TLC books offered to send me this book to review—the subtitle had me at hello. Who wouldn't want ...
Omm Writer
I recently happened across a peach of a writing program—just a simple text processor that brings back the peacefulness to writing. It's called, Omm Writer. (Currently in Beta V2 and only available for ...
RAOKA: Passion
February Theme: Passion (chosen by Dani, author of Positively Present ) As this month passed by in a flash, passion was on my mind. As I've said in a previous post, what is on our mind makes us see "it" more often in ...
Panglossian Effulgence
I'm not sure how or when my logophilia took hold. Two favorite words I've recently discovered comprise this post's title. In case you're like me and have no idea what these words mean, I'll save you a trip to the dictionary: Panglossian • \pan-GLAH-see-un\ • adjective : marked ...
Smiley
I've built this blog slowly, earnestly, and with my best intentions. My goals for my blog are few: 1) A vehicle to connect with others 2) A method to be of service to others (i.e., to make a difference for at least one person) To that end, I'm super ...