Amber Drake (caricature seen at right), owner of Essential Admin, and I became acquainted several years ago and have enjoyed a strictly email-based friendship since then. It was a great pleasure to meet up with Amber and some other Idaho VAs in person recently in Spokane.
Amber first captured my imagination when she took her business [...]

Many people will tell you that they are drawn to the virtual assistance profession because they believe it will be a flexible fit with their family life. Interestingly, that sounds a LOT like the reason so many women are attracted the education profession.
I have worked in both fields and, while there are clear benefits to [...]

I may be the only person who was actually in Chicago last Sunday AT Soldier Field whose exposure to the Bears was nothing but a drive-by-with-windows-down. Ok, so technically I wasn’t at Soldier Field but nearby briefly.

Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling - that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast.
A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just [...]

Here’s what I am hoping my life will look like over the next three to five years, and no, none of this is in my biz plan (yet). Work really hard for most of the year, then take a well-publicized long vacation, say 1 - 3 months.
Last winter I took a month off (as mentioned [...]

Just because you have a thought does not mean you must commemorate it with a blog entry. To qualify for what amounts to world-wide distribution, I think one’s remarks ought to have at least some lasting value.
So, here am I after a month of no posts pondering, what exactly happened this month? At the surface, [...]