Deleyna’s Drift
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Chores
My children had not been doing their chores. Again. I glared around at the house, sniffing through my stuffed up sinuses, tracking down litter boxes in need of cleaning. In the process I discovered empty cat food dishes, and hidden stashes of dirty dishes left mouldering and forgotten in corners. Teenagers. As sick as I…
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Trapped in Hell
(If you like to avoid religious commentary, you may want to skip this one…) I’ve had a friend tell me lately that she felt like she was trapped in Hell, and before you say you’re sure I’m referring to you, I’ve heard it more than once. It amazes me how many different forms of hell-on-earth…
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The Year of Jubilee
Completely random bit this time, but it has been on my mind. Biblically I’ve seen that God decreed a Year of Jubilee once every 50 years. (Yes, for the scholars out there, I know these years don’t equate to our years. I’ve also heard that the Jews never actually celebrated the Year of Jubilee, but…
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Penguins can’t fly with Eagles
This is the marketing rant I’ve been warning you was coming…sort of. We have a policy that we never buy from high pressure salesmen. Why? Well, because if they had a good product, they probably wouldn’t have to push so hard. If they’re pushing, they’re probably hiding something they don’t want me to find out….
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Potato Blessing
I was going to go off on another rant about marketing today, but I have been distracted by potatos. Be grateful…you’re spared that diatribe for another day. On Sunday, our church informed us that we had been blessed with potatos. Several tons of potatos had been dropped off last week and volunteers had bagged them…
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Marketing for the burn bin
I won’t say that marketing techniques are getting worse…because I already sound like a broken record. For years I’ve fought the fraudulent yellow pages bills sent to companies hoping that the treasurer will pay the ‘bill" without realizing it isn’t a real bill. Since I’m both the treasurer and the person who buys phone service…
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E-publishing for not-so-dummies
Less than a year ago, I took a young woman aside and quietly explained that I was worried the e-publishing trend she was following might harm her writing career. I’d like to officially apologize. I was wrong. OK. I wasn’t just wrong, I was horribly horribly wrong. Fortunately, she’s a smart young woman and blew…
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Surrey Photo
I am so grateful to Ursula Maxwell-Lewis/SiWC.ca for this photo she took of me at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference. She managed to capture the booth before the sign fell down and me before I came down with my daughter’s going away present: a fever that left me looking like a truck ran over me….
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Amazing Safari Detail
Every day I learn something new about web design. Over the last two weeks, I have watched a site that I’d designed malfunction on one browser: Safari. Now, all of the "real" programmers out there are laughing at me, because nothing crashes on Safari. Safari is supposedly the most compliant browser in the interuniverse —…
