Thank you to everyone that has helped me spread the word and help Melissa get an opportunity to change her life. Your support for my “Sis” means the world to me, and I wanted to share Melissa’s gratitude, too. Voting closes tomorrow (Friday) at noon – so if you haven’t voted yet, please do so right now. Instructions are below – 2 clicks, that’s it. My cousin - Melissa Ward Irwin - is like my sister. Nothing happens in her life without affecting mine and vice versa. I never had a sister, but she definitely makes up for it. We are SO close, … Continue reading
My cousin – Melissa Ward Irwin – is like my sister. Nothing happens in her life without affecting mine and vice versa. I never had a sister, but she definitely makes up for it. We are SO close, and have NO secrets. She called me last Friday and said she wanted to “win” the lifelong race she’s been having with her weight, so she entered herself into a competition with a local fitness magazine for a weight loss challenge type of deal. It’s one of those Facebook campaigns that, if she gets more people to “like” her photo, the magazine … Continue reading
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ~Helen Keller
A few months ago I wrote about a good landscape contractor friend of mine, Bruce Allentuck, and his insane plan to take part in a unique challenge called the Death Race. “The kind of person that signs up for Race is someone who has no limits; they’re basically a lunatic.” – Joe DeSena, co-creator of the Death Race This might be the case for some of the competitors, but lunacy has never been an apt description of Bruce. Driven? Yes. Passionate? Certainly. Athletic? Absolutely. Crazy? Like a fox! I read the post that Bruce wrote about his adventures in this … Continue reading
I think we’ve all heard the saying “Time is Money” but it’s not quite true. You can usually make more money, but you can’t make more time, so time is worth much more than money! That being said – here are a few tools I’ve found to make your Social Media world easier, saving you time so you can make more money: Hootsuite – Web based SM tool that allows you to coordinate and maintain all of your social media networks, including: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and more. Very useful, and since it runs in a browser you can use it from … Continue reading