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Things wordy, geeky, and webbyLinks: We Love Moms 2010 Edition
Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 11:30 AM |
Three generations
I’m a lucky daughter because I have a caring, sweet, intelligent and energetic woman for a mother. Growing up, I hated that she had all these evening meetings. Part of that was her job of seven years working for a community center that required nighttime meetings because they included volunteers with day jobs. Besides that, she was also on the board for non-profit organizations, and those meetings were at night.
Despite these meetings getting in the way, I’ve always wanted to be a regular volunteer like her. I volunteer almost every week, but not for as many hours as I would like — must balance my time between kids and business. She was even president of a local non-profit organization while pregnant with me and raising a 10-year-old and 12-year-old. (Yes, I was like an only child. No, I was not a “surprise.”)
She also did whatever she could to provide me with the support I needed to learn how to communicate due to my profound deafness. She drove three-year-old me to Dallas (an hour from Fort Worth) three times a week so I could go to Callier Center for speech therapy. I can’t tell you how many sad stories I’ve heard about people who were deaf and had parents that didn’t bother to learn sign language so they could communicate with their child. Just makes me more grateful for my mom.
P.S. Still need a gift for Mom? How about a computer game? Big Fish Games is offering 30% off on all games except Collector’s Editions and special deals. Or maybe you’ll like one of these far out ideas from Oddee. Gotta love the tee that says, “You can’t scare me… I have kids.”
Brain food…
- Show, Don’t Tell: Showing tells more and in a more interesting way than telling. I read these articles whenever I come across them because I need constant reminders and tips. [Link: Brad Shorr]
- What’s in a Publishing Contract?
- 5 Ways to Find Local Clients: You can apply a couple of these to find non-local clients. [Link: Karen Swim]
- Do You Need an MFA? When my kids are older, I’d love to pursue an online MFA. I’ve yet to find any — found some in other types of writing or media, but not MFA. Lots of short residencies, but not exactly what I’d like.
- SMU Cox School of Business Has Free Research Page: SMU Faculty Research Page covers accounting, marketing, finance and investing. May be a good resource for business writers. SMU rocks. I even attended the business school for one semester. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get a master’s from there — just not business.
- Tools to Help You Write with Resonance: Links to lots of readability tools and resources.
And for fun because we’re allowed…
- Paper Airplane: Building a World Out Of Paper: Whoa… How do artists do tiny little things like the food trays? With lots of patience…
- Unusual Wedding Cakes — Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! I admire cake designs and catch the cake contests on Food Network in the summer.
- 12 Coolest Covered Cars: Well, the glass car shouldn’t have any problems with theft.
- 25 Awesome Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials: Saving it here… love to try ‘em someday… which will probably never come. I can’t draw and always wanted to learn how to do it the computer way.
- 10 Most Unique Stadiums: Betcha you’ll say, “Wow” at some point.
- A Sampling of Chinglish: “Hot Marxism…” nuff said.
Share a favorite Mom or family memory. Or share why your mom or a special family member means a lot to you.
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6 comments
Hi Meryl, You are blessed with a wonderful mom. No doubt you’ve followed her example: perhaps one day your daughter will write a post like this about you!
.-= Brad Shorr’s blog …Writer’s Digest of Web Readability Tools – What they Are, How they Work =-.
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@Brad, aw, shucks. Thanks. I wish I had some of my mom’s personality traits. She’s so patient, something I need more of.
Wanted to add this very important article from Jay Baer to today’s links. Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media? Key point:
“The fundamental premise of social business is that you are interacting and engaging with customers and prospects on a one to one or one to few basis. And that takes time. Trust takes time. Creating advocacy takes time. You build a volunteer marketing army one soldier at a time, not overnight.”
.-= Meryl K Evans’s blog …Big Fish Mother’s Day Sale 2010 =-.
Meryl, Thanks for the link!
Your Mom sounds wonderful. It’s so easy to take the sacrifices our mothers make for granted, it’s nice to know you truly appreciate yours. (I appreciate mine, too. There’s a reason that she’s my best friend.)
.-= –Deb’s blog …MM: Show, Don’t Tell =-.
@deb, good stuff from you. Couldn’t pass it up! Yes, my mom and I are very close.
ANOTHER link, people! Don’t want to wait until next week.
Authentic” is dead: Great content writing tips. I hate “leading provider” and have cut my share of them in client content.
.-= Meryl K Evans’s blog …Big Fish Mother’s Day Sale 2010 =-.
More support that it takes time to build relationships — not something you do quickly Time Is On Your Side from Michael J Katz.
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