Home Life
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about clutter and its effect on peoples’ lives. In a more perfect world, my house would be model-home sparse and dust-free. Two of my best pals are white-glovers (and TG & KH, you know I love you to death;) neither of them can stand to have one iota of [...]
How was 2011? As they say in the market, it was rather “flat.” That being, some good, some bad, all balances out. Certainly business for Valdata Services declined as I saw three clients close their doors, one being my largest long-term customer. Sad, indeed, and I will miss these great people I interacted with on [...]
I don’t often use my blog as a soapbox, but today I feel like sharing. At the risk of sounding like a whiny parent, I need to relate an incident that recently happened at my daughter’s school. It goes something like this: Syllabus states that student will keep all schoolwork in a 3 ring binder. [...]
“To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.” –Pete Seeger I hope Mr. Seeger won’t mind my use of his photo and wonderful words. It just seemed fitting today. Aren’t we [...]
As shocking as it may seem, not all published authors support themselves on their royalties. I know, huh? Yeah, I was a little surprised, too, when I first discovered that little known fact. So, to answer the many questions I get about how I earn income between blockbusters, here’s the scoop: I make sure that [...]
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Okay, I thought that might be kind of funny. Why? Because I have just been offered a job as an English tutor! At my school! My C O L L E G E school! Yep… [buffing nails lightly on t-shirt] I will be joining the staff at College of the Canyons this fall. I was [...]
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These were all taken with my Blackberry phone, so on the fly. No rhyme or reason to what attracts my attention, but it’s all fun. The picture of the bicycles was taken at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, University of Southern California. Theresa’s is near Burroughs High School, where my daughter performed with her [...]
You know that saying that goes something like… the day you die you probably won’t look back and say you wished you had spent more time at work? I keep thinking about that concept, of looking back and evaluating what I’ve done. Doesn’t seem particularly important until you put that finality on it, that point [...]
