9 harbingers of judgment on America parallel the 9 judgments Israel experienced before their ancient destruction!

It’s Friday. Only I don’t get a weekend because I still struggle with “saying no” which means I make things so much harder on myself because I don’t think before I act, so my week just gets longer and longer and longer as I learn. It’s a lesson. It’s MY fault. One day I WILL learn to slow down, line up my ducks, say “No,” when appropriate and “Yes,” only when it’s good for me too.
I think saying “Yes,” and trying to help people even when I know I don’t …

When a man calls his business, “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur,” you have to wonder how much potty humor there’s going to be and how serious he is about business. But gosh darn it, Mike Michalowicz has BOTH, potty humor and serious business ideas.
I’ve been writing business tips for Mike’s TPE Blog website for about 6 months…or longer really. And Mike, like Seth Goding, answers his own emails. He asked for my opinion and well….that started an ongoing conversation and after reading a PDF version of part of the book I raved about …

The primary issue people who have never been homeless, even those who work with the homeless, focus on is the obvious—the lack of money, food, health, shelter, a job etc. But that’s not what destroys, demeans and hurts. The worst part of homelessness is not the hard times. That sucks, but what destroys us is the humiliation, the shame, being looked down on, excluded, ostracized, and attacked. The emotional trauma of homelessness far exceeds the physical.
I camped for most of my life. Life in a van sucked because of the …

South by Southwest, more commonly known as SXSW, is a company that plans and executes conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events twice a year (spring and fall) in Austin, TX. Current roster of events include SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and has been going on since 1987, at the Austin Convention Center. In 2011, the conference lasted for ten days, with SXSW Interactive lasting for five, Music for six, and Film for nine days. This year attendees, who typically complain about the lack of wifi and internet …