Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

So, I’ll admit it here and now. The factory is closed. I have two kids and I don’t want anymore. I love them into tiny little pieces, but I am done. Period. Thing is, I want a more permanent form of birth control, get my meaning? A surgical form of birth control. These come in [...]

I know I have ranted about poor customer service before. It is terrible to be the victim of bad customer service. Standing as the random victim, caught in an act relatively routine. Perhaps it was the return of an unwanted/unintended item, or more information was needed, maybe there was an error on the bill, or [...]

No, I don’t usually post this often. I try for a couple per week. I’ve been getting a few hits from the Baltimore Sun’s Dining@large site. This is due, in part, to my big mouth. When the truth flows from it, I may not stop it. Anyway. If you are here from there, then welcome. [...]

A surefire way to increase traffic to your blog is to leave comments on other sites. At least, that’s what they say. It is a good method, actually. This is especially true if one leaves thoughtful and insightful comments or even comments that go against the original posters/bloggers thought stream. I got a few hits [...]

You ever get that feeling? Or more likely, ever the cause of that feeling? Like you’re talking and the subject of your words has a blank stare, they are not fully engaged in the conversation as it were. You could be totally into your story and at the punch line and at the expected gasp [...]