ROW80 Check-in I am in panic mode right now about writing my book because in a couple of weeks I will be working in an office full-time. After working from home for the past five years, this is going to be a big change. [What’s ROW80? Check out the A Round of Words in 80 Days website.] Long story short: my husband needs a secretary/bookkeeper for his boat shop, and he needs someone he can trust, since previous employees have done nasty things (stealing, mostly.) Hubby also seems to think I can write on the job, since folks before me…
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Travel tips, photos & travelogues from all over the world.
Quinceaneras Bloom at the Dallas Arboretum A couple of weeks ago, I finally visited the Dallas Arboretum for the first time. What a fabulous place! On the day I went, the park was full of people, including several young ladies decked out in Quinceañera dresses. If, like me, you are new to Texas, you may not have seen these 15-year-old Hispanic debutantes before. With their tiaras and evening gowns, it’s easy to mistake them for young brides. It was a gorgeous spring-like day in January, and I snapped a ton of photos, sharing some of them on Twitter via my…
ROW80: Inner Critic Smackdown – Bird by Bird and Tweet by Tweet The White Screen of Death My blog was stricken by the dreaded White Screen of Death (aka WSOD) last night, so I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do my ROW80 check-in today. The dreaded WSOD happens when you crash the WordPress database. In my case, I tried on an incompatible theme and – yikes – my blog turned into a plain white page for the next 12 hours. Thanks to an old pal and a new pal (Thanks Doug! Thanks Susan!), all is well, and…
NiNoCon: A Free Online Writers Conference Thanks to the fabulous Nicole Rivera, I attended a free online writing conference yesterday. This meant putting in a few hours of work today, but #NiNoCon was well worth it! Don’t just take my word for it, you can check out the chat presentations online and lots of other great info from the writers conference over at The Writer’s Dojo. Here’s a quote from the dojo which sums up yesterday’s presentations: Sensei Jeff Vincent introduced the concept behind the writing dojo and author Sheralyn Pratt offered up the marketing myths we must defy in…
Welcome to the February 4, 2012 edition of Traveler’s Show and Tell. This week’s Traveler’s Show and Tell blog carnival features ten travelers from all across the blogosphere. Read on to find out: … which parts of Mexico are safest for tourists. … why a card deck makes a great souvenir from Naples, Italy. …why it’s still worthwhile to toss coins into Rome’s Trevi Fountain. … and much, much more! This Week’s Travelers Tui Snider (Yup, that’s me!) presents It’s Different in Naples, Italy – The Neapolitan Playing Card Deck posted right here at Mental Mosaic: Even Home is a…
The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair One of the first online writing groups I belonged to was called A2S. This stood for “Ass to Seat,” and was our cheeky nod to Mary Heaton Vorse’s famous quote: “The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair” While hunting for the quote’s origin, I came across a Suite 101 article by Vickie Britton in which she explains that: “This quote is attributed to Mary Heaton Vorse (1874-1966),…