Nearly ten years ago I started a tradition. I took a blank, boring journal and filled the first few pages with bad poetry, dorky photos and a heartfelt note. Then I sent it away to a friend. The pages of that journal eventually got filled with memories and what was once a cheaply made book [...]

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a contest I thought looked cool. The winner gets to travel around the country to different Lilith Fair festivals and report on the events for Degree Women. So I entered by writing a short essay and I just found out I’m a finalist! But in order to win [...]

Do you like the name Ink Swift? I hope so because I came up with it! Ink Swift is a self-publishing company offering more books, perks, control than the competition– and there’s a lot of it. New statistics show that more than twice as many new books are now self-published than published traditionally.
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About a year ago some Twitter users in London wanted to prove that the latest craze in social media was about more than broadcasting to the world what you had for lunch. They wanted to make a difference so the “Twestival” was born. Their first event made huge waves– raising $250,000 for Charity: Water, enough [...]

I was pretty excited to learn that The Debt Hawk ranked me #31 in a list of the Top 100 Personal Finance Bloggers on Twitter. It’s a dynamic list based on the number of followers each person has. The only difference I see is that all of the people in front of me are branding [...]

Belle Magazine recently published my article entitled “Extremely Public Servants.” For the piece I thought it would be interesting to find out how many local and state lawmakers were on Twitter and Facebook. And more importantly, how responsive they are to being contacted through social media. You can read the Belle article here and let [...]