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To Market, To MarketAfter taking my books to two functions recently and not selling a single book, I’ve naturally been reflecting on how to sell books. Each author has a different method of setting up displays. Some have giveaways with advertising on them. Some offer candy or cookies to get people to look at their books. When I went to Wordstock, I decided… click here to continue April, 30th, 2005 Economics LessonThis time of the month I always get anxious to sit down and project the next month’s expenses. Ever hopeful that there might be some money left over for “discretionary” spending, I pull up Quicken and start filling in the blanks. This month I’m motivated by a desire to have spending money on our cruise to Alaska. Since… click here to continue April, 28th, 2005 SimplicityOne of the simple pleasures of life is walking barefoot on a clean kitchen floor. Yesterday afternoon I noticed that, after I mopped, I really enjoyed the smooth, not sticky, not gritty, surface. So I did the bathroom floors, also. After doing “house mouse” chores, as Al calls them, for many more years than I care to remember, it takes… click here to continue April, 26th, 2005 Remind Me Not to Read the NewspaperI seem to have skipped my second childhood and proceeded back toward infancy. It took two naps to get me through the day today. Just joking, I surely wouldn’t want to be an infant today. Being born slightly before the depression began was bad enough. Those hard times made those of us who lived through them tougher, I… click here to continue April, 25th, 2005 WordstockToday I dragged my lazy self and my books to the Convention Center to sit at a Willamette Writers’ table and let my little darlings be mauled. The writer next to me complained that in two hours no one had even opened one of her books. People left handprints all over mine, but left no money behind. They just smiled… click here to continue April, 24th, 2005 Drizzly DayI awoke this morning feeling very sad. A dream of my friend of more than sixty years moving away had upset me. But, when I opened my eyes, I remembered that she was, indeed, gone. Then I was even sadder. I have pictures, and greeting cards, and a few emails I’ve saved. But there have not been any of those… click here to continue April, 23rd, 2005 A Salute to Good HealthThe drugs that are administered to make a colonoscopy tolerable and forgettable seem to be wearing off more slowly this time. I hope my morning swim and water exercises erase the little headache I have today. Having those particular drugs twice in five years has really impressed on me how easily one could become addicted to mind-altering substances. April, 22nd, 2005 |