There’s a big push on the internet to give things away – content, music, services. It’s creating a trend where people are beginning to get angry when they’re expected to pay for something…Somewhere along the line the meaning of that old saying that, ”There’s no such thing as a free lunch,“ was lost.
As a writer, artist, and designer I give away a lot of time, information, help and advice. LOVE doing it – most of the time. I say most of the time because a lot of people have made …

Breaking up is hard to do….
Panic and I have been on a first name basis, oh, since grade school. Other kids had invisible friends they invited to tea and giggled secrets to. Panic and I held hands and sat on the curb and worried about everything. It was not really what you’d call a great friendship, but it has proven to be a long term one. It’s kind of like those smelly old sneakers and worn out t-shirts we all have that we can’t bear to throw away. We know …

(This is NOT my tooth, but mine could look like this if left untreated)
When I was five my father (Horace Dewey “H.D.” Blanton) decided to go to college and become a dentist. He succeeded. In the course of his training he had to work in the school’s dental clinics, where he/other dental students practiced on people with real dental issues to learn their craft.
But instead of just practicing on people with tooth problems who signed up and came in for the clinics, he decided to get extra practice. He did …

Absolutely LOVED and hated Seth’s blog this morning. Why? Because for the past 30 years I’ve been learning to quiet my lizard brain like he said, but it’s only been this past year that I finally found something that works. It’s not quieting it. It’s listening to it.
Seth writes, “We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say …

Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
launched yesterday, Jan. 26, 2010. It’s quite a piece of work – and a great read if you haven’t read much of Seth before. I wrote a lengthy review of it earlier, but wanted to sum it up in a different way today. Linchpins, according to Seth, are not only those tiny pieces of cotter-pin that hold a machine together – they’re the critical and most important pin. Usually unnoticed until they fail, they make the rest of the machine, or in …