A funny thing happens when you become involved in the social networks. After a while those strangers you’ve networked with start to feel like friends. A few even begin to feel like family.
I recently took a break from Twitter and Facebook for a week or so while some stresses in my real world were getting [...]
A few days ago inspired by Jeff Pulver’s Bucket List meme I wrote a “Bucket List” for 2008. A list of things I want to accomplish.
Today I give you my “Fukkit List”. All of the things that aren’t working that I’m working to remove from my life:
- Naysayers - You know… those negative “glass [...]
Yesterday was to be Day 1 of Phase 1 of the South Beach diet in my household.
3 chocolates & 2 bottles of porter later… not off to such a great start. I’ve been suffering for two weeks with a nasty flu. My birthday is in a few days and I’ve had several invites to go [...]
Dear Secret Santa,
Today I was very frustrated. I agreed to join a Secret Santa gift exchange weeks ago with some social media types on Twitter. When I got the name of the person I was supposed to gift to, she wasn’t someone I knew, followed, read, or whatever.
I immediately started following her on twitter, subscribed [...]
This morning on twitter an interesting thing happened. Now most mornings have interesting happenings on twitter, not just today but this one speaks to where I’m at right now:
kelleyburrus: @merlene inspired me to shift my perspective, randomly. I’m researching Alpaca farms….and why not?
chrisbrogan: @kelleyburrus - research away! Dream big.
That’s it right there. Dream big.
Recently I [...]
Autumn of 2005 I had reached a point in my life where nothing was working. I’m sure to outsiders my life was looking just fine but it just wasn’t working. I looked back at all of the things I disliked about my life 10 years before and most things hadn’t changed. It was time to [...]
[seesmic] Merlene versus the web cam
Mobile post sent by Merlene using Utterz. Replies.
A couple of months ago my blog went boom and I lost everything. Over the past two months I’ve installed various blogging platforms and tried different themes on each. Fussing.
I have a list of over 100 blog post ideas, adding to it daily, but I’ve not written anything. Fussing.
I’ve spent hours looking at fonts. Hours [...]
