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Writing or PR – Get a Damn Good Price 30 May 2012 | 10:20 pm
You get paid to write an article for a company. They post it on their website and perhaps use it in other places. By all traditional measures, that makes you a writer. You take that article’s url and...
A few flowers 24 May 2012 | 05:26 am
Every now and then you have to celebrate life. Well, actually more than every now and then but you know what I mean. This is what the back of our SUV looked like on the way home from the nursery yeste...
Dying Tomorrow 23 May 2012 | 08:56 pm
I tend to wake up fairly early and while I regret that delicious feeling of sleeping late, some of my most productive time is from 4 to 7 am when the world is sleeping and still. This morning, a long ...
You Don’t Talk To A Conversation 13 May 2012 | 12:31 am
Once again, I see the spectre of age-rage happening around the blogosphere. What’s with all the let’s-get-the-young-people-gardening angst and counter-angst? It might help by starting with a quote fr...
Does Facebook Replace Blogging? 19 Apr 2012 | 12:46 am
I suspect the question is a bit broader than that and can instead be posed as, “Does Social Media Replace Blogging?” And the answer – it depends. It depends totally and completely on why you’re blogg...
When Answering Garden Questions and Google Don’t Mix 16 Apr 2012 | 11:59 pm
It has been an interesting three weeks in my tech world of online gardening publishing. The CMS I use was “upgraded” in a major way with some interesting new options coming down the pipe but like a lo...
I’m Thinking of Stealing Some Plants This Spring 28 Mar 2012 | 01:32 am
Every now and then, I check who’s stealing my images from my websites and who’s copying my articles for their own website use. Normally, the number one culprit are the spammers and scrapers who send ...
Ebook: Flower Gardening with Spring Bulbs 20 Mar 2012 | 12:42 am
My 16th ebook just went live on Amazon this weekend. It answers the questions around having and growing a great spring flower color show – the kind that takes away your breath and restores your garden...
On Developing a Sense of Maturity 14 Mar 2012 | 01:12 am
Ever notice how your body feels in the morning? How only a few short years ago you only needed coffee to jumpstart your went-to-bed at 3am mind but now it’s aspirin-for-the-knees and coffee-for-the-he...
Lesson of the Day 13 Mar 2012 | 09:14 am
The lesson-of-the-day this week has to do with a basic approach to writing. When writing in a new genre, take a deep breath before sending it out to the editor. You’re going to need it when the manusc...
