I have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, one of a number of “loose-lipped” breeds. No, he isn’t the author of my blog “Loosely Speaking.” My blog isn’t even named after him.
When you have a loose-lipped canine, that means you have slobber spraying everywhere. I mean everywhere. Sometimes you forget that you haven’t hosed your walls [...]

Over at www.ivaa.org, the International Virtual Assistant’s Association, there has been a rollicking discussion in recent days about the title used by those of us in our industry.
Though the title might once have implied that one came from a background in administrative assistance or bookkeeping, today the term (and, in fact, the membership of [...]

Even though you can network with people anywhere in the world today, I believe in good old face-to-face contact. I remember how exciting it was to meet other VA’s in person at the first ever IVAA Summit in Las Vegas a few years ago. Putting the face with the name, email, tagline and website was [...]

While we don’t know his name, we know what his room will look like and are intimately acquainted with his parents.
Our next grandchild will drop in sometime in May. At right is a blanket in Organic Inca Cotton that I’m making to snuggle him up in. #5 needles that I found in my stash [...]

At last. The best month is here!
We live about 2 hours from Phoenix. Our son plays all his sports in a league that’s all Phoenix schools except for us. This means lots of time on the road, living the sporting spectator life. Like other parents, we try to get to as many of the [...]