Burnout affects many of us at some point - and sometimes you just can't bear to look at the computer screen.  read more »

I had a strange commission the other day - to write about some US cities without actually visiting them. It made me think about the process of writing a travel piece and resulted in a post on How To Write A Travel Piece And Stay At Home:  read more »

When Your Toddler Becomes A Child is my first guest post for Parenting Diva. It outlines some of the signs that tell you that your child is growing up. See if you recognize any of them.  read more »

So I took advantage of the offer to become a reviewer - and I can't wait to get started. Just to warn you, I'm going to use this as the home for some of the reviews I've written in the past - provided the products are timeless.  read more »

This is the time of year when everyone assesses what they've done in 2007 and lists their plans for 2008. I'm no exception, and yet I don't really believe in making New Year's resolutions. That's because I find it hard to buy into the notion that the passage of time between midnight on Dec 31st one year and 1 minute past midnight on January 1st in the next year is suddenly going to change me.  read more »

I'm fascinated by blogging, so it's no surprise that I take every chance I get to mess around with templates and try out new tools and widgets. This week I've written two posts that log my latest forays into blogland. On PiggyBankPie, I review Entrecard, which I've been using for a week since it was recommended to me recently.  read more »

If you've been looking to promote your blog with Blogrush, you may be wasting your time. I've reviewed Blogrush on Pureblogging. In my experience the traffic has only been a trickle. In the review I detail my experience with the ugly widget, which I will soon remove from my blog.  read more »

Those of you who came from WU may remember a discussion we had about whether writing was an art or a craft. It was a post that got a lot of response from the many writers on the site. Now I've revived the question in an article on Writing White Papers. Maybe you'd like to weigh in with your opinion.  read more »

What This Post Is Not:  read more »

• A discussion of the commercialization of Christmas
• A discussion of the Christian meaning of Christmas
• A discussion of Christmas traditions

The other day, I got to thinking about the skills you need for parenting and it occurred to me that these had a lot in common with boardroom skills. The result of that thought process was an article called Is Raising A Child Like Running A Business. Here's an excerpt:  read more »