My 1st 30-Day Challenge

by Rosalind Gardner on July 25, 2010

in Personal Musings

Hmm… what can I say? I only made it through 20 days of my first 30-day challenge, which was to give up high-calorie beverages such as wine, beer, orange juice, hot chocolate and the like. Let me blame it on Evelyn Grazini (ex-Affiliate Classroom/Lurn) for a moment at least. Evelyn showed up for a 4-day [...]

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A Chat with Denise Griffitts on BlogTalk Radio

by Rosalind Gardner on July 15, 2010

in Speaking Agenda

This week I’ll be chatting with Denise Griffits on the “Your Partner in Success” show on BlogTalkRadio. Denise will be grilling me on all the following points. So, if you want to know… How you can use your web site, blog, or email list to “presell” visitors into affiliate purchases? The strategies that lead to [...]

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Bye Bye Precious Vic

by Rosalind Gardner on June 23, 2010

in Personal Musings

I stood at the front door talking with someone the other day and found my foot blocking egress to an imaginary animal. Our dog, Jasper, was in the back yard and Vic was gone — to kitty heaven. Almost a month and a half, and it’s still hard to fathom — my precious kitty is [...]

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I Swam 5 Great Lakes

I don’t much care for water or wet things. I try to stay out of the rain and refuse to walk on wet grass. So, it was a shock to me when we were staying at East Harbor State Park on Lake Erie and my mother took me to the beach and pulled me into [...]

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10,262.2 Kilometer Road Trip

On May 14th, we left Penticton for Lakeview, Ohio to pick up our new trailer. As Lakeview is a mere 8-hour drive from my mother’s place in Toronto, we made that our ultimate destination. On the way eastbound, (before we had the trailer), we overnighted in and saw places around: Spokane, Washington (pics) Butte, Montana [...]

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Travel Tours Now on Amazon

Walking and driving tours for cell phones, produced by VisualTravelTours, are now available on Amazon.com. Families that travel together, but with different types of mobile devices, can now take a walking tour at the same time, and/or at their own pace. The narrated tours have images throughout, a map to print before you go, and [...]

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Aren’t You Just a Wee Bit Curious?

Curiosity may have killed the cat...

Do you know anyone who can talk for hours about themselves or other people, yet never stops to ask you a question about your experience? I am bound by blood and long-term association to several folks who seem similarly incurious. Over the years I’ve come to appreciate that their apparent lack of curiosity invariably leads [...]

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