In Defense of Selling

Image by paganites via Flickr There is a growing movement of people that seem to believe that selling is equivalent to the old style peep shows frequented by dirty old men. They’d rather we all hold hands and sing songs around the campfire. I love a good round of Kumbaya as much as the next person [...]

Mid-life Crisis Number 122 and What You Can Learn From It

When I was 29, I had a full on midlife crisis sans the red convertible. I engaged in endless self reflection and mourned that my 20s were gone. I changed my hair and considered jumping from a plane but I was too busy with work to schedule it. I turned 30 and realized I had [...]

5 Sweet Business Lessons from the Cake Boss

The Cake Boss is a US Reality Television Show which follows family owned Carlo’s Bakery in New Jersey, as they create amazing cakes. The cakes are unbelievable – a NASCAR race car cake (pictured to the right) built to scale, a cake that looked exactly like a paintball field and even a dog cake for [...]

One Lovely Blog

Thanks to the gracious Lillie Ammann at Lillie Amman, Writer and Editor   for the One Lovely Blog Award. Lillie is a wonderfully talented published author who consistently delivers informative and uplifting posts. She is a great champion of the writing community and never hesitates to share information that will help new and seasoned writers. She is [...]

It’s Complicated!

Image via Wikipedia On Facebook, “It’s complicated” is one of the choices for describing your relationship status. It’s complicated is a fall back choice when none of the other check boxes quite work.  Your situation may be a mixture of choices, without clear descriptions and labels. It’s complicated sounds messy but in reality check boxes [...]