Interlude: Why I live in the Northwest
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Tag: Freelance Success
The Continuing Adventures of Landguppy Productions
Brought to this week by Sucuri, for when you don’t want to see what your mobile device wants to show you [Voiceover]: Previously on Landguppy Productions — Our intrepid leader found herself overwhelmed for months with family traumas and the business of serious writing and thus several months have passed since she has been able…
I’ve been hacked
I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours trying to undo what the Russians have done. For many people who have tried to access my website with a mobile device, they have been surprised with porn that’s impossible to unsee. Tasteless. Not erotic at all. Icky. The particular hack is pretty well known. Sucuri, a…
Coming up: The next 50 years
I turn 50 in nine days. Today, I got the card pictured below in the mail. I know other people who, on the verge of hitting the half century mark, also got their invitation to join AARP. I don’t know what database they bought to know that I am about to turn 50 — or…
Word of the Day from the Book of the Week
I really should call this “words of the day” because there’s no way I can pick just one word from this week’s book, Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, proprietor of the InkyFool blog. I’ve said before I’m a word geek. Show me a book about words and their origins, or the evolution of language and I’ll…
Book of the Week: Reinvention Edition
I belong to this amazing organization for freelance writers and editors called Freelance Success. It has been instrumental in all of the work I have done for national publications and websites, and at about a hundred bucks a year, my membership over the last decade or so has paid for itself many times over. Every…