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Archive for October, 2010

7 Freelance Clients You Want to Avoid

October 19th, 2010

Nobody is perfect and we all work differently. What might be a great system for one individual may be a positive disaster for someone else. That’s just human nature and it boils down to our individuality. Coming from my own perspective and my own experience, however, I have encountered my fair share of difficult clients [...]

My Weekend: Plasticized Human Bodies, Vietnamese Noodles, and a Ghost Train

October 18th, 2010

Who said that Vancouver was a no fun city? Even though I make my living as a freelance writer and I work primarily from home, I still need to take a break from time to time to calm the monkeys in the brain (so to speak). While this past weekend, it does show some of [...]

Sunday Snippet: Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

October 17th, 2010

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” I’m not one to dabble in high fashion, but I can certainly appreciate the sentiment expressed by Coco Chanel in the quote above. It’s also a sentiment that I have approached before on this blog, but it is very much worth revisiting. In today’s capitalistic [...]

Blog Action Day 2010: Water

October 15th, 2010

Blog Action Day happens once every year and it is on this day that thousands of blogs around the Internet rally around a single cause. Three years ago, the topic was the environment. The theme for this year is water and there are very few causes that can be quite as universal as good old [...]

My Blog Is Not My Personal Diary or Journal

October 14th, 2010

Those of you who know me (and even those of you who don’t) may have noticed that I’m pretty public about what goes on in my life. I talk about my professional endeavors and personal exploits on this blog. I offer you a glimpse into the day-to-day through my Twitter stream. And you can see [...]