Last weekend, I watched the news on this nebulous ‘bailout package’ nearly 24/7. It seemed so big, so important, yet I just didn’t get it. HOW could pumping this amount of money into Wall Street have ANYTHING to do with me, or you, our Sparkplugging readers.
I started to understand when one of the Representatives being [...]

I’m finding lately that people can’t get me to stop talking about Twitter. Even when I was supposed to speak at the Online Marketing for Women Entrepreneurs Conference about blogging a few weeks ago, I had to take 3 minutes to talk about the power of Twitter.
I realize a lot of people don’t get Twitter. [...]

Many authors tell tales of receiving enough rejection letters from agents and publishers to wallpaper an entire room before landing a deal. I was fortunate. Two weeks after sending my proposal out, I got an agent, and a week later I was signing a deal with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Celebrity [...]

A while back I read a blog post (which I couldn’t find today) where the author asked if your business was about just making a living or was it about making a difference.
It’s an interesting thing to contemplate. Am I just running my business to make money or am I running my business to make [...]

Last week I “crossed the line” and talked about politics for the first time on my blog.  With great restraint I worked to give you an unbiased view of where Barack Obama stands on helping small businesses. Today with equally great restraint I’d like to share with you where John McCain stands on the exact [...]

2008 is a landmark year in politics. No matter who wins the White House, history will be made. I’m excited about that, because as of November 5, a glass ceiling will be permanently broken in the United States of America. I may or may not like the candidate who breaks that ceiling, but I cannot [...]

This last weekend we went camping and I was astonished at how much different and peaceful I felt. I found myself longing for more simplicity in my life. There was a time when laying underneath the stars was more important to me than how many visitors my website had last month. While that may sound [...]