So you want to start a blog? If you have no idea how or where to get started, this blog’s for you. What is your topic? What’s your topic? Finally realizing your dreams of uniting with others who enjoy knitting little cat booties, raising puppies, coin collecting, internet marketing, or whatever. It doesn’t matter what

Oyster mushroom kits (Pleurotus ostreatus) are seen seasonally in various stores. My experiences weren't promising.

11th Commandment: Thou shalt not write a blog post that hast not been optimized for SEO. I hear so many different things about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that sometimes I want to pull my hair out. Don’t do this, do that, don’t do that, do this instead. Half of what they talk about is perpetuated

Last week I took a vacation.  I didn’t go anywhere, I didn’t do anything. Oh I had a list of things I was going to do, but I only accomplished two. A minor project in my room, and rest.  I think that sometimes we forget that our body needs rest.  I learned the hard way

Editors Note: This post was originally posted a few years ago and was lost but eventually recovered, however without pictures (where applicable). By Jeffery Wood | March 15, 2010 SO today I have now finished college…for this term anyway, and now I have a little time to do some writing and…uh, hmmmm. I haven’t really

Can you force a group of people to be a team? No, not really. In an employment situation, you can force the group to be polite, but you cannot force them to do much else. You can’t force them to respect each other, nor trust each other, nor to work as a team. Trying to

Yes indeed, there is a kind of arguing that is great to have. Politics or religion? Nope. Superheros. Superheros? Yes, superheros. A guy I know, not quite a friend but more than a friendly acquaintance, has a girlfriend in college and she invited him to a homecoming dance which is a superhero formal theme. Now

Confessions of a comma abuser I am a proud, serial, comma abuser. Really, I am. If you didn’t notice then that’s because you’re worse than I am. Or you don’t know any better. Either way. I don’t always know when I’m breaking the comma rules, but often I do. For example, I use the comma

That’s what the fortune cookie said. What’s that supposed to mean anyway? Why 9, and why for only a week? It’s not like you can play the lottery or anything.  After a week does it drop to an 8? Of course I don’t take fortune cookie fortunes seriously, but sometimes they are silly, profound or,

While I was responding to a post on a forum about generating traffic I thought to myself, “Hey, this will make a great blog entry and maybe even an article” 🙂 My way to generate natural, organic traffic When I first got started I was overwhelmed with the “do this” and “do that” for generating