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Scheduling Future Posts with WordPress
One of the biggest difficulties in maintaining a blog presence is the output of regular content. There are three ways to fill up your RSS feed and keep your readers engaged: Publish multiple authors on your blog Hire a ghostwriter to write your posts for you Schedule future posts and do all of your writing at once Some sites (like Copyblogger and Mashable) have multiple authors, and they aggregate their content into one feed. Other sites maintain one person as [...]
Don’t Gimme Shelter
The mindset of Western and European people is fundamentally influenced by our crappy weather. When I want to take my kids out of doors, we have to hunt for a large list of essential clothing: Coats Shoes Socks Baby Legs (but my 5 year old insists we call them “leggings,” and if I call them “Baby Legs” we have to go find ANOTHER pair) Sweaters Hats Scarves Gloves Amidst the 30-minute search for all of these pieces, I have [...]
Repatriating for Health Care
Like many Americans, I have gone bankrupt because of our for-profit health insurance system. Unlike most Americans, I am leaving the system altogether, and coming to Costa Rica. International moves are expensive, but the cost of repatriation dwarfs the risk of becoming financially crippled for simply getting sick. My daughter has a pre-existing condition. She is four years old. There is a cyst on her heel that will, we are told, go away naturally in a few years. We made the mistake of going to a doctor, and having this bump examined, so [...]
Editing Across Mediums
Today, I had the good fortune of working on two separate editing projects Writing -Editing: a nonfiction book proposal Video - Editing: a 30 minute multicamera interview and I learned a valuable insight. Editing is the process of removing the fluff that helps us tell our stories. This fluff, consisting of ums, false starts, poor phrasing, and repetition, ramps us up to say what we really mean. We have to try expressing an idea a few times until [...]
Easter Present for my Fairy Daughter
My daughter has a dream-friend called Moonhorse. She visits Moonhorse in her dreams, and he flies with her up to the moon, where they have friends (like Yojo the Unicorn) and they play games and have adventures. A few weeks ago, Indilea made a painting for Moonhorse, and wanted me to leave it out on the porch for him to come find that night. She had me write a message on the bottom: Dear Moonhorse, May I please have some [...]
Parkour Injury – Out for the Season
Parkour athletes care about their own safety much more than any bystanders could. And it's not because we fear pain, or because we are excessively scrupulous in observing the proper way of doing things. We are overly concerned with our own safety because one minor injury can take Parkour away from us for three months. At the moment I injured my ankle, nearly 4 weeks ago, I had a level of fitness that is now lost to me. It will [...]