Clef May Just Be the Best Password Solution EVER
Get Clef and kiss your passwords goodbye.
Optimizing Your Posts and Images for Social Sharing
Recent changes at Facebook have us scrambling to be sure our content displays well for social sharing, and it’s especially important to note that Facebook has recently changed the aspect ratio for images from square to 1.91:1 for both its mobile and desktop feeds. Square images now appear cropped, often poorly. We have found the following helpful guides and links: […]
Weddings and Commitment
I am fortunate today to be celebrating 32 years of marriage. Since it seems to me that fewer and fewer young people are choosing marriage these days, at least not without a trial run that involves living together for an unspecified, usually lengthy, period of time, perhaps I might have some advice to offer. Not because I am an expert on marriage. Far from it. But because I am, at least, able to say that I made a commitment, I have stuck to it, and so has my husband. And that has made all the difference. […]
Happy Birthday, WordPress
I have to admit I arrived fashionably late to the WordPress party, believing it was not yet ready for prime time, until I was actually forced into using it when Blogger decided no longer to support FTP. At the time I had 22 clients whose blogs I had happily integrated into their Dreamweaver websites using Blogger as an engine. […]
The 100-Mile Yard Sale
When I was in college, I wrote a feature story for the Columbia Missourian about yard sales, tracing how the used or discarded can find new purpose in the eyes of someone else. One man’s junk is another’s treasure. So quaint. But when I wrote that article I was young and naive. I had no idea just how much STUFF a person can actually accumulate over the decades of their lives […]
Forever Untangled
This little tip has helped me keep my headphones tangle free since I came across it about a year ago. It may seem like a little thing, but I’m certain it’s saved me hours of time and frustration. […]
My 11:11 Wish
Today's a lucky day, a once-in-a-century day, and a cause for celebration for those of us who tend to glance at clocks at precisely 11:11 or wait for the moment to make a wish. Here are some ways to make it memorable.
Adrift — again
Adrift -- again -- in the world at large, notes from a small town. This post represents the resurrection of Webcurrents, a web column I began more than 15 years ago, before they were called "blogs", and eventually put aside when my growing business and motherhood demanded my full attention.
Spiritual Warrior – A Personal Account
James Arthur Ray's Spiritual Warrior event has been held annually at Angel Valley Retreat Center near Sedona since 2003. In 2009 three people perished while participating in a sweat lodge ceremony, one of the final activities of the five-day retreat. At least 19 others fell ill and were hospitalized, one in critical condition, and the story quickly spread worldwide across news outlets and the Internet. The year before, I was among its 60 or so participants.
Mother Hawk in the Heartland
We are a nation in mourning. Our daily chores, our jobs, our routines seem trivial, even unimportant. It is hard to shake loose from the trance we are in. We mourn the terrible loss of life, our sense of security crushed beneath tons of steel, our innocence engulfed in the flames of jet fuel.