I recently attended a small (200+ attendees) gathering of people who curate and publish via a blogging platform. Today I am talking about general aspects of writing conferences in light of the existence of blogging. So yes, this was a blogging conference, but it was also a writing conference, but it was not like the writing […]
Lack of Support Sucks
I've written about this before, so call me a whiner if you want to, but I have to vent and parse my options. Building a business is difficult work. Writing content and building an online site as a business is hard work. Doing this without financial backing or personal support is exponentially more difficult. Working […]
What Does This Mean To You?
When almost anyone asks me what something means, I will answer with gusto. Meaning and how we create meaning is one of the major interests of my life. Semiotics is how things mean. Semantics is what things mean. The question, no matter what the “something” is, gives me a chance to ply my trade. I […]
Boom-X BoomHer Bloggers
The Majority of Boomers have more in common with Gen-Xers than Stereotypical Boomers. Why? Because the last half of the Post World War II Baby Boom, temporally speaking, contains more members than the first group. I spent years writing about this. Just search the term Late Boomer and you will find my stuff, because as […]
Zen Activism
There is a part of me that seems to be holding onto a great amount of regret or guilt about my becoming less active in the Peace Movement. There is a part of me that wants to experience a normal, calm, happy life. There is a part of me in which the fight or flight […]
Repurposing This Blog: Build Peace
Over the last six months I have given a tremendous amount of thought to starting a new blog that better reflects my current take on “life, the universe and everything” than my build peace blog. Everytime I would find the perfect domain name for a new venture and begin to build a new whirling […]