Blissdom’s best kept SECRET TIPS!
Next week 500 of my closest friends will descend upon Opryland to eat, sleep and dream all things blawg. For a blogger, it's Utopia…Shangri-La…Disney World…bliss; to our family, friends and everyone else, it's a freak show Star Trek...
The opposite of discouragement
Is it just me or can a n y o n e else out there go from top of the world to bottom of the barrel in a heart beat and for no apparent reason? Is it simply the tortured artist(wannabe)/creative that lives within? Can we chalk it up to hormones for the...
Coming to a city near YOU…???
Therapon is doing something few, if any, skincare companies have done before: they’re coming to you instead of waiting for you to come to them. They’re accomplishing this a few ways ~ Click through to Connect to finish...
Friends in high places
Sometimes guilt by association is a good thing. If you're looking for great reads to add to your 2011 Book Lists, consider these works by (in)courage writers who also happen to be friends. Encouraging words, inspiring words, affecting words....
You’re never fully dressed without a smile
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I've always been a smiler. In grainy black and white images from my youngest years, evolving to grainy matte finished images from a Kodak Instamatic, I always mugged for the camera like my parents were paparazzi. Even when I was snaggled toothed. ...
Pretty snails
Sometimes my daughter asks loaded questions… “What are you doing tonight…?” There’s a swollen pause at the end of her question, and dancing eyes tell me she Has Ideas and they’re probably better than anything I have in mind....
State of Bliss
I am so ding-dang excited I'm having to restrain my fingers from typing THIS ENTIRE POST IN CAPS! Out of the utmost concern and courtesy for those offended by screamy letters (and potentially excessive exclamation points), please consider… My Top...
Killer and cure for under-bed, hide-in-closet monsters
Silent shield: Nightlight bright Keep those monsters OUT OF SIGHT! The biggest challenge for me through Laura's weekly poetic prompt–"15 Words or Less Poems"–is to channel my inner child. Though my response to life is often...
I Heart Faces: Smile!
When I saw the theme for this week's I Heart Faces photo challenge—smile–I instantly thought of this little lamb. She exuded joie de vivre like few people I've encountered before or since. She's one of the children I met in a...