Locally grown+homemade=Yummy Perfection. This masterpiece started at Whipstone Farm in Paulden. Corey and Shanti Rade bring us our share of their fresh-picked produce every Tuesday. (More about their CSA can be found here.) Shanti emails a list of what’s coming in each week’s delivery in advance. She also includes a few recipe hints, making meal [...]

When my kids were home for a visit recently, we spent some time looking through some dusty old family photos. These two images took me back to a July forty-six summers ago, when I entered my first contest. So convinced was I that I would the first prize, that I wrote to my aunt and [...]

Whatever your level of expertise, whatever tools you use, would you like to help A List Apart get a clear picture of who does web design? Here’s the what & why: “The information you’ve so generously shared with A List Apart will help us form a picture of the ways web design is practiced around [...]

They filled the house to overflowing. Then they vanished, all at once, after a week of sleep deprivation, tons of great homemade food, somersaults, kitchen dancing, walks through the neighborhood, squirt gun fights, over-the-roof football lobbing, and loads of laughs. The things they left behind: 5 hot dogs 8 working squirt guns Redecorated basketball court [...]

This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith! Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the [...]

About six weeks ago I converted an existing site to a WordPress, blog-style site. I’ve written about the process elsewhere (Converting from Static Site to WordPress Blog? , and also check out my guest post about the conversion published at Merrick Management), and all that was left to have happen is for the original site’s [...]

When the seasons hint that they will soon be changing, as in late July, some women want to get new outfits, shoes or handbags. I like to look at sale catalogs but end up throwing down my hard-earned cash for things like a new garden shovel and wheel barrow, or a new adjustable wrench. These [...]

In economically uncertain times, your business can prosper as long as you perceive this challenge as the opportunity it really is. Though you may stumble, your solution lies in devising a strategy, just like you did when you wrote your original business plan. (You did that, right?!) Let’s say you’ve cultivated a new, potential client, [...]

Another update. Another (temporary) crash. I don’t know my way around version 2.6 yet as I just installed it. In fact, I was just getting used to 2.51 and then saw it was time to update again. I used the WordPress Automatic Update plugin and crashed my site. Then, did it manually (fortunately my database [...]

In response to Lorelle on WordPress‘s weekly blogging challenge, I am considering the changes computer software has wrought in my life. I can still recall hearing the name Microsoft sometime in the early 80′s, and wondering just what that even referred to?! At that time, the computer I had at my disposal at work only [...]