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The Best Year…So Far

I love/hate end-of-year blog recaps. I tend to skip over them in my reader (sorry!) because while I know it’s exciting for the blogger to look back at his/her accomplishments, best memories and more, it’s not all that exciting for me to take that look back with you. (As a TV producer, I must say that the end-of-year videos were the best because they usually ran about 4:00 and filled a major news hole!) But I totally understand why people create them. {Read More}

You Oughta Know: Free Kindle Books at the Library!

For the longest time, I had an $.80 fine on my library account that really put a crimp in my borrowing style. Sadly, it needed to be paid in person, rather than online or over the phone (I tried!) and I just never remembered to go after work or on the weekends. Until paid, I couldn’t do much. So I looked longingly at all of the free Kindle books that were available through my local library’s website, building a queue {Read More}

On Living in the Moment

Baby Day 1

I’ve never been great at living in the moment. It’s one of the main reasons that I love/hate yoga. It forces me to center my thoughts, to focus on where I am second-by-second and to be OK with not only where I am, but who I am. The holidays bring out some of my worst anxiety, and couple that with being a new mom, my thoughts read something like this: I can’t wait for Christmas! / Oh gosh, is it Christmas {Read More}

Blogging as a Business: Where to Find Opportunities

If you started a blog to make money…good luck. You can do it, and can sometimes make enough to quit other jobs and live off the blogging income alone. But for most of us, blogging is at best a part-time job (and many don’t make any money at all — it can be a great and fulfilling hobby!). When you decide to monetize your blog, you can expect to work very, very hard and since it often takes money to {Read More}

Show Me What You Got, What You Got pv

PV Body Outfit

Update on 2/19: Well, it’s the final straw. I really wanted to give pv.body, now ellie, the benefit of the doubt in case some of the ongoing issues reflected growing pains of a new company. I worked with the team through emails over the last few weeks, trying to get updates on missing shipments, on how the new ellie program will work, etc. My goal was to get some answers for YOU, my readers, because when I put my endorsement {Read More}