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About a year ago, my husband brought me home a copier. Massive, heavy, and retailing for well over $5,000.00 used (heaven only knows how much it cost new), he and my son unloaded it from the back of our small pick-up truck by way of sliding it down a couple of two by fours (lifting [...]

The problem with a one man shop is that you have to do everything. I could argue that this is also the greatest advantage, because it gives you control over all aspects and you never need wonder if the to-do list is getting done, and getting done the way you want it done.
However, it does [...]

In the purest, starkest definition of the word ‘literature’ it is easily interchangable with the word ‘writing’. Basically, any writing can be deemed literature, and any literature can be deemed writing. That goes for the verbage written on the back of your toilet paper pack.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the definition, courtesy of http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/literature

Main Entry:
literature

Part of [...]

Jerry Jeff Walker, a little known country singer of the Texas variety begins one of his songs with the lines:
I guess it all started
When my brand new car wouldn’t
So I took it to a dealer
Recommended as a good’un
He then goes on to explain how the car needed repairs and his warranty ran out last week.
The [...]

Review Date: 05/09/09 
Rating:
Rules of Attraction: Fourteen Practical Rules to Help Get the Right Clients, Talent and Resources to Come to You by Mark Deo
Market Analysis:
Amazon sale price: $12.21. List Price: $17.95.
If this were a paperback printed on demand: cost per page: $0.013 x 228 pages = $2.96 to print + .90 per cover = Total print [...]

The list in my head is beginning to get crowded, so time to put it on paper (or on screen, in this case) once again.
1. Finish edit on James Spurr’s Reflections in the Wake.
I’m happy to report that this is going well. I had managed to get a great deal of it done (more than [...]

If you are a long time follower of my blog, you will recall posts about why I resent publishing. You’ll recall posts where everything seems to be going wrong, from pdf pagemaker crapouts, checks overdue in the mail, the great hard drive meltdown of 2008, and the sometimes unreliability of both web platform software and [...]

Quick Update: Real Estate Courses are finished!!!! Yay!!!
I took the final exam and again passed on the first try, Praise Jesus! I really wasn’t looking forward to having to take either of these exams more than once.
Sobering addendum: while taking my proctored exam, my proctor, the local school librarian who at one time was our [...]