Adventures in Social Media
Paige Bowers. I heard this name for years from Donna K. Smith, a luxury hotel and destinations PR fabulouso. Donna couldn’t believe Paige and I had never met, and she was sure we would just love each other. Two summers ago new neighbors moved in across the street. I stepped over to welcome them to [...]
A few years ago I began to entertain the idea of getting a small tattoo. The decision to have something permanently etched on my body isn’t something that was spur of the moment. I have two teenagers for goodness sake. This past weekend I was feeling melancholy and missing my Alabama relatives, who I haven’t [...]
I’ve been in a funk for a few years now, ever since I was first diagnosed with a brain tumor. I walked out of the doctor’s office that day in shock, holding it together until I sat in my car in the parking lot. And I cried. Not just a little cry, but the kind [...]
I’ve had enough. I mean I’ve really had enough of people’s bullshit. The straw that broke the camel’s back came in the form of an email this morning telling me I wasn’t qualified to attend an event THAT I WAS INVITED TO! I’m sorry that I am a RESPONSIBLE parent and hold a full time [...]
Each year on Christmas Eve, families light bonfires along the Mississippi River levee to light the way for Papa Noel. Last year our Alabama relatives were in town for the holiday, so we took them to see this amazing event. Here’s a video of last year’s Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!
When I took my first cruise, I noticed on the daily ship schedules that there were meetings of friends: Friends of Bill W., Friends of Jimmy K., and Friends of Dorothy. At first I thought these were some sort of floating memorial services or something. But then I saw the same groups getting together on [...]
It always seems to be either feast or famine in the writing industry. There are lean times when I’m not getting any assignments at all, and fat times when I have to turn down some fabulous projects. This year (2011) I made an effort to spend more quality time with my family and to take [...]
This post was inspired by Paige Bowers who left a comment on my Johnny Adams post asking if selling used golf balls was a lucrative business. For a few months during my golf career, I was assigned to work at Dumas Golf Course in Baker, Louisiana. On busy weekends, or if a tournament was in play, [...]
This morning I did a search for a song to Blip and up popped a name I hadn’t thought about in a long time — blues musician Johnny Adams. When I was in college, I worked summers, weekends, and some afternoons at the public golf course system in Baton Rouge. One of the courses I [...]
I was watching television the other day and got pretty ticked off when Your Second Shot: A Project by Canon commercial aired. The gist of the project is that Canon is traveling the US and giving people a second chance to recapture moments from when their photos didn’t turn out correctly. Is Canon apologizing for [...]
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