Upwork (“Upchuck”) will be down for maintenance all day today, so you’re going to be the beneficiary of the extra time. Yippy skippy, right? When Elance renamed itself Upwork several years ago, I thought that was the dumbest move they’d ever made. How many positive words do you know that start with “up”? […]
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Raccoon photo c. 1980 by Kris M. Smith. Ask for permission to use it in your marketing materials or for any other private or commercial purpose!!! This morning Lisa and I took Patches to my Tacoma Vet (Dr. Bob Wright at Lakewood Vet). She hates being in a carrier, so we tried letting her
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My latest client reviews/testimonials… THESE ARE TWO RECENT EXAMPLES of what a great review/testimonial looks like, in case you’re ever asked to write one. DETAILS MATTER! Copywriter for Crowdfunding Campaign Needed Rating is 5 out of 5. 5.00 Feb 19, 2021 “Kris is the answer. I submitted a posting for copywriters to help me with
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Unless at least 17 GOP Senators vote to convict the former president for inciting the insurrection on Jan 6th, our democracy’s days will be numbered — and it will fail on their watch. But should that surprise us, given their efforts to wrest democracy away from us in just about every other way for
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Quite unexpectedly, I scored my first COVID shot yesterday, thanks to a tip from a friend with insider information. I was typing away on a writing project proposal when the phone rang. Noticing that the caller was my friend, Judi Cooper, I answered it. She told me, “You were saying you missed your
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Today’s Wordsmith Deck question is, “If all jobs paid the same, what would you choose to do?” I am among the luckiest persons on the planet. My answer is, “Write.” And that’s what I do for a living. It took me a long time to decide to just “go for it
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My sister Jackie and I are working in separate areas of our property tossing out, or setting aside to donate, stuff we’ve accumulated over the years that we don’t use. Call it mid-winter spring cleaning. Jackie is in our storage area in the garage digging through everything that’s hers, and I was in the
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I have a deck of cards (Wordsmith Deck) with question prompts to jumpstart blog posts. Just ran across it again in my “games” stash… I pulled a card out at random and got this question: What qualities to you admire in yourself?” The ones that pop immediately to mind are PERSISTENCE, OPTIMISM, A
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I’m experiencing PWS — Patches Withdrawal Syndrome — this morning. I can’t wait to have my kitty cat back with me here at home! The good news is that she’s doing far better than I am. As of yesterday, they say she is relaxed, friendly, chatty, and eating like a horse. I’m only
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I have four (count ’em, four) new clients who have promised to be with me long term. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they haven’t been keeping me busy! GRRR! I landed them all around Christmastime and, since then, I’ve only done one or two tiny projects for each
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