“So when will this end it goes on and on Over and over and over again Keep spinning around I know that it won't stop” ~Lifehouse, Sick Cycle Carousel
Perhaps this is a wrong line of thinking, but I am learning that compared to other moods I have experienced, I actually like hypomania. I feel like over the past few weeks I felt every emotion under the sun. Mania. Hypomania. Mixed state. Depression. By far my favorite has been hypomania.
Recently, Darren Rowse from Problogger.net put up a challenge for bloggers.
It's pretty simple:
Write about 7 links you want to share with other bloggers, one of which links out elsewhere and if you want, you can talk about the links you've chosen. Add a little summary for each.
Here's what the 7 link challenge asks:
1. Your first post
2. A post you enjoyed writing the most
3. A post which had a great discussion
4. A post on someone else's blog that you'd wish you'd written
Blog comments are important to both the blogger and the person writing the comment. They help the the blog author determine which blog posts were interesting to the readers. They are also a way for the blog readers to express viewpoints and share information with other people. How can you determine which blogs have a more internet savvy following? It is typically blogs where you can see the users' pictures to the left, or above, their comments.
I've dealt with depression for most of my life, but it's only been in recent years that I've begun to recognize how many other people are struggling with it too. Depression is silent by its very nature, isolating and stifling, alienating us from those who would help us and those outlets that usually give us happiness. I've found that it seems creative individuals tend to suffer most acutely; the more I poll my friends, writers, actors, painters, costumers and the like, the more I find they have struggled with this insidious illness too.
Recently, due to our latest, and hopefully last for awhile, move, I have been goign through a great many changes. I have begun to reaccess and re-evaluate everything in my life. From clothing to personal habits to the people I allow in my life. I had come to feel very lost, disoriented and unsure of myself or of how to continue. Thanks to a terrific community that encourages the creation of Dreamboards, I found an outlet to allow my inner voice to be heard by my logical brain. I have found the power I lost inside myself. This is the story of that one piec
In a rural town in northeast Alabama, four families live in four very interesting homes. Twice yearly these families kindly open their doors to visitors from across the nation, in hopes of inspiring personal responsibility and teaching people about sustainable living. The 3-hour walking tour includes a dodeca-yurt, an underground home, a strawbale house, and a homemade house that combines dozens of passive strategies for self-sustaining, eco-friendly living.
This guest blog focuses on the importance of blogging for making yourself more employable, especially in certain industries which are otherwise extremely difficult to break into.
Contains information on the status of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act, nicknamed the Cash for Caulkers program. The program is offering rebates to consumers who caulk air leaks, replace windows and doors, upgrade to various energy efficient furnaces, etc. The Senate hopes to pass the bill before summer recess. Links to contact individual Senators and synopis of the rebates available. If the bill passes, energy savings and job creation are the goal.
A review of the previous month and setting goals for the next. I added a linky last month (and plan to again this month). There is a button participants can download from my blog sidebar, too.
I've found that one of the easiest - and most fun! - ways to jazz up packaging, labels, tags, signs, paper goods, blog or website, etc. is by using a wide variety of fonts and dingbats that match your theme/product/event/style. Luckily, they are in no short supply and can be found all over the net - for FREE! The following is a collection of some of my favorites, great sites where you can find tons more, and related links and resources...
The Maker Faire is an event not to be missed. This year it was held in San Mateo, California and it was incredible. It is tailored made for the curious. All age groups, all types of people, all types of interests are represented in the most user-friendly environment I have been to in a very long time.
This is a book review of Christian-fiction author, Rhonda McKnight's, second novel, An Inconvenient Friend.
The author of An Inconvenient Friend, Rhonda McKnight, brings gold-digging Samaria Jacobs back for Round 2. Samaria first arrived on the literary scene in Ms. McKnight’s debut novel, Secrets and Lies. In this offering, Samaria is up to her same conniving ways. Though this time around, Samaria’s plan is to win the man of her dreams by any means necessary, even if it means getting too close for comfort.
Yesterday, despite my current rather unsavoury life circumstances (partner problems) I dragged myself to Vancouver folk fest, and had a day I will never, ever forget - it healed my soul, and I acquired a beautiful piece of art that I will always wear close to my heart.
I think it's interesting how we can never predict these days, but as children we do not realize their gravity, while as adults we often do. How do we mark these days? How can we commemorate them? How do they change our lives?
The “quality” of one’s life cannot be determined by the “quantity” of things which fill it, and preoccupies its every waking hour – nor can it be defined by the body-count of individuals who have been used as a platform to achieving one’s goals. This course of action only leads to fatigue, burn-out, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction.
A student from the age groups 8-12 and 13-17 years old will win 5 copies of The Magic Pencil novel for their school!
The entrants must write an essay on "What is Code-switching?" using The Magic Pencil as a springboard. The winners will be chosen, based on the overall quality of their essay, by 5 professional writers/teachers/editors.
Are you making the quest for your dream, whatever it is - the ideal job, better health, a livelier social life - more complicated than it needs to be?
Many of us do. It's almost as though we think it has to be a hugely difficult ordeal if it's going to be worth anything. It doesn't! Find out how to keep things simple, and still get what you want, in my latest article:
