My family’s heritage is German/Austrian on one side and Irish on the other, and I like to romantize that mix by thinking it’s a perfect blend that makes us both strong and passionate. Some of my favorite memories are of family get togethers over dinner. We talk through the dinner, we c...

I’m going to share a story with all of you first. Yes, it’s true, although I hate to admit it. A few years ago I decided that I needed a website.  Not just a template website, but a website that was custom to me.  Branded.  One that I could call my own.  So, I contacted a company tha...

I had a lady phone me the other day who would rather have emailed. She was on BloodhoundRealty.com and she couldn’t figure out how to email me. In fact, my email address is associated with every post, just like here, but that wasn’t obvious to her. I revisited the sidebar, which is a top...

A headline on a weblog post is a differentiator — this entry is different from all the others — but that’s not a very useful lens for understanding headlines. A serial number — A37592x — is a differentiator, too. A headline can serve the same purpose as a headline in th...

As a new blogger, with little experience, how do you choose a weblog platform?  My current blog runs on Quick Blogcast from Go Daddy and it’s beginning to feel limited.  The number one reason I chose it, when I started blogging a little over a year ago, was that it looked easy to implement...