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A year makes a difference
I think I may have mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of change. And, yet, life changes. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
I was hit by this realization yet again this afternoon. I was washing …
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Connecting through Facebook
I’m not sure why I’ve taken so long to do this, but I have finally created a business page on Facebook for Written Creations. I’ve been using Facebook for about two years now for a personal page to connect …
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I’ve never been abandoned
My daughter has slept well from the beginning of her life. Of course she’d wake up in the early days to eat a time or two at night, but she has always been good at putting herself to sleep. From …
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Change is good
I admit that I am not a person who thrives on change. Some people do, but for the most part, I am a fan of routine. Granted, every day is different in what I am working on, but my routine …
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Letting sources preview articles
If you interview enough people for enough articles, you will most definitely come across those who want to see the article you’re quoting them in before it goes to print. Staunch, hard-core journalists will tell you never let a source …
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Laptops in the classroom
On Monday, Al Tompkins from Poynter blogged about the use of laptops in the college classroom. He said some professors are tired of trying to compete with Facebook and other online distractions so they have banned laptops in their …
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Working through the first cold
In the years that I’ve been freelancing, I’ve learned I don’t get sick days. Deadlines are deadlines and I’m the only person to pick up the slack. True I can prioritize and do only what has to be done on …
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Never stop learning
Education is important. That idea was pounded into my head as a child. My parents expected both my older brother and me to go to college. We both expected we’d go. And we both did; each of us earning a …
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Finding balance
“Balance” is one of those words that modern mothers bandy about. We talk about balancing work and family. But, I daresay that few of us really feel we are 100 percent balanced between the two on any given day.
I’ve …