In the great Twitter vs. Facebook debate, I fall squarely on the Facebook side of the fence. I know there’s a place for both of them, and some people make extensive use of both. You almost have to if you want to do a proper job of marketing anything these days. But Facebook is a [...]

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Beavis is dying. I know it and she knows it. I lie to myself and give her a two percent chance of beating this, of somehow getting up and walking across the room again. She embraces it, understands that her time has come. She’s 17 and has lived with diabetes for six years. Twice daily [...]

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The harder I try to think about what to write, the more of a slog it becomes. (This is as true for blogging as it is when working on my novel.) I used to sit down at the keyboard and try to force something out of my empty head down through my fingers. It was [...]

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When you’re late to the party you take what’s left. In the world of the web, that means you don’t get the snazzy “.com” domain name these days, unless your name is Snveroeh Qwerhtprdzski or something unique like that. I’ve had various blogs before and still have a couple others going, but wanted one now [...]

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