Category: blogging
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Here’s Why My Blog Site Looks So Different (and You’re Welcome)
If you’re thankful for the website redesign, you are welcome. If you’re here, well, you’re welcome any time. I hope you make this a regular thing.
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When It Seems That Nothing You Do Matters, Know This
Why do you do the things you do? Are you hoping for “likes” or applause or just some appreciation for your effort? Maybe this will encourage you.
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What More Could You Want Than Text and Audio From Your Favorite Blogger?
Would I like to create a podcast of my published blog posts? Is that even a thing? Yup. The real question is this: Will anyone listen?
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How Writing Is Like Offering Wine at a Tasting
Sharing your writing is like offering your heart as wine at a wine-tasting event. You may have people gathered, but your wine is one in a million (or five or thirty) – and not in a good way.
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My Marketing Job Has a Holy Goal: Reach 1 in 100
Who knew mimicking Jesus would be part of a career in tech transfer? “Thy words were found and I ate them — yum, yum, yummy!” The lyrics from my college days that I sang alongside friends during Campus Crusade for Christ meetings are in my head as I write this post. We sang about finding […]
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Maybe Your Job Is to Reach the 1 Rather Than the 99
Be inspired! You can’t reach even one if you don’t get started My blog has been largely absent of words of late. I’ve written elsewhere — including “morning papers” that do seem to help uncork the flow of thoughts. But nothing is more discouraging than feeling that my work is unappreciated, my time thus wasted. […]
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BFF May Not Mean What You Think It Does
If your best friend is a blogger, that is I was sitting in the back seat of Pamela’s navy blue Toyota Camry, peering out the window with as much intensity as a bus tour participant trying to memorize once-in-a-lifetime scenes passing at the low speed the windy residential road required. It was my second trip riding […]
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When doing good prevents you from doing best
(Or why “sharpening your saw” is so important — no matter what your “saw” might be) I had noticed that my skin just below my left eyebrow remained red long after the imprint of my goggles faded each morning. It also itched. “Chlorine,” I thought, quick to conclude my skin was reacting to the chemicals […]
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Snarky and hush…
A part of being snarky makes me hush. In that reflective hush, I can explore my motivation, tame my words, or simply stop the post.
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Stand by your work…
Showing your art or writing for public consumption is like offering your heart, your very self — and chancing rejection. It isn’t just a technique or a style or the juxtaposition of color. It is heart and soul offered.
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Do you hate popups as much as I do?
Recently, I’ve been exploring a variety of blogs. The instant I land on a blog I once considered a promising read, a box pops up, offering me the blogger’s firstborn child in exchange for my email address.
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Why I write…
Welcome to All Things Work Together. This post “Why I write…” is a good introduction to my blog, which covers my moments, musings, memories and milestones — as I live, learn, love and laugh. If you like what you read, please share it, and I’d certainly be honored if you’d follow me.
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Identity crisis and blah blah blog…
If you’re looking for “Sound Off,” you are in the right spot. I have decided to rename my blog “All Things Work Together” — based on my favorite Scripture verse, Romans 8:28.
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First world problems…
A month without reliable cable and internet connections is like a month in which bill shouldn’t be paid. Right?
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The day after…
I awakened this morning before my alarm, but I didn’t start writing a blog post in my head or on my keyboard. Instead, I promptly (accidentally) dumped my husband’s cooler filled with melted ice all over the kitchen and had an impromptu floor-cleaning session. Even while I was cleaning, however, my mind didn’t try to […]
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My reflections on NaBloPoMo…
My alarm awakened me at 4:30 this morning for the first time this month. I haven’t missed that blaring sound blasting inches from my head. However, today I definitely missed the extra hour I’ve typically had for writing my daily blog posts by not “sleeping in” till 4:30. Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo, […]
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SEO and so what?
In my work as a technical editor working on marketing campaigns for new inventions, SEO is considered an important part of the job. I’m beginning to see how important it is to blogging, too. I admit it: Before I worked in marketing, I had no idea what SEO was or why it was so significant. […]
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Thoughts upon awakening Thanksgiving morn…
I awakened to the scale alerting me I’d gained 1.5 pounds since my last weigh-in 24 hours ago, and it’s still before sunrise on Thanksgiving morning. No exercise this morning, just cook, cook, cook — and overeat. Can’t wait for tomorrow morning’s verdict! I needed cream for my coffee and so headed out to the […]
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