Generally, when the school principal calls, it’s not a good sign. When the call begins, “I’m sure you weren’t expecting this …” … it’s usually an even worse sign. In this case, however, he had called to say that The Spoiled One was being recommended for a scholarship to a boarding school. We had never…
Want to start a business? Think you’re a good programmer? Have a good design? (By a good design, I don’t mean an idea, I mean pages of scene, character and action description if it’s a game, plus – well, let’s just say one HELL of a lot more than “there should be an app for…
There is a huge inequality in the way the economy has played out among people I know. Business is good and has been getting better all year for me. My friend Jake is doing great. He was an anesthesiologist and several years ago became board-certified in geriatrics. He loves working with older people and his…
Being sick with only half of my brain cells functioning, I spent the weekend reading random articles on some of my favorite sites. I was disappointed, but not surprised, to find one had the stock title: “Do you want to start your own business, escaping the cubicle, be the next Mark Zuckerberg, do you have…
The very first month I started this blog, four years ago, I wrote a short post, Tinkerbelle visits The Julia Group. I said that after twenty years of writing grants for other people, I made a wish just for me, as Tinkerbelle said. I sent off a grant to create an on-line high school algebra…
There must be some hallucinogenic drug given off by spring flowers, because it is the one time in the year when I am struck by the irrational thought, “Maybe I should clean my office.” Like any other spring cleaning undertaking, random things are uncovered that make me think, “Huh. I wonder what that was for.”…
^—– Old advice-giving person This week I had the pleasure of speaking via WebEx with Rebecca Ottesen’s statistics class at California Polytechnic University (fondly known as Cal Poly by the folks at home). The students sent a number of questions in advance, many of which boiled down to how do you get started in consulting….
While all the cool kids are doing start-ups, I’m doing a “stay-in”. That is, I am staying in business after 28 years at it. Just in case you might be wondering, here is one of AnnMaria’s first rules of “stay-in” businesses. Not all work is created equal Not only that, but some of it is…
Every blogger gets those emails that begin , “We love your blog …: and end with ” …. over here at spam-a-lot, free-insurance-quotes, on-line college work at home for hundreds of dollars a day.com and …” I almost deleted this one until I read the rest that said … “We’re planning to feature it in…
First of all, in response to the darling daughters (multiple) who told me this link wasn’t obvious enough, I will begin with EMOTICAMELS !!! Here is the link to sign up to the appsmitten newsletter. Click on it and sign-up CLICK Right Here next to the most annoying gif I could find. CLICK HERE !…