At first I thought rude, aggressive, hateful people and their emails, comments, remarks etc deserved an equally offensive or scathing reply. After all, they threw the first punch right?
Then I evolved a bit and believed that all rude people and rude emails should be met with a mature and reasoned approach – after all, we all have problems and maybe their inner troll, child just needed a hug and a caring adult to respond to them. Do that enough times and surely they’ll come around (they won’t).
Now I’m finally at …

I love the fable about the scorpion and the frog. If you haven’t heard it, it goes like this:
A frog was relaxing on the riverbank when a scorpion crawled up and asked him for a ride across the river.
“Please Mr. Frog, I’ll rest on your back and won’t weigh you down. Please give me a ride.”
The frog looks at him and says, “You’re a scorpion. Stinging is in your nature. You’ll sting me halfway across and we’ll both drown.”
The scorpion says, “Oh no, why would I do that? I would …

I am a full-time writer. I make my living writing ebooks, brochures, copy and ads. My writing makes people a lot of money. I love what I do. But I get a little frustrated with the business amateurs. Business amateurs are the people who think you can buy a $5,000 item for $5 and then sell it for $10,000. Nice work if you can get it, but don’t shop here with me please.
I just bid on a job on an online copy writing site. My rate of course was well …

If you think donating money to the Red Cross, dumping off your old, unwanted clothes at the Goodwill, or spooning out turkey and mashed potatoes at the local homeless shelter at Thanksgiving and Christmas is “doing good things” and makes you a “good person,” think again. You’re one of the MILLIONS of people who are just “phoning in” their charity. You have an excess and so you give, thinking you’ve really done something. You haven’t. You’re a fake if you think you’re really a “charitable” person.
The thing is, in a …

Tweet If you have a blog you’ll attract trolls. If you have an opinion, a position, anything – you’ll attract people who disagree, and a few who are violently or rudely opposed to you and your idea or input. If you comment on someone else’s blog, or participate in anyway online – you will encounter pinheads, jerks, trolls and flamers who have no lives and no goal in life other than to make you miserable.
I have some good advice for dealing with all of them. Respond ONE time …