I receive a daily email from a website called Hometalk. Hometalk is a site that hosts a collection of home and garden DIY projects. Their daily emails have a collection of a dozen or so DIY projects that they have collected from crafty folks from around the world that have repurposed everything from coffee stirrers to pennies. [...]
I want to live in a world without email. I wonder if that world exists anywhere except in the backwoods of West Virginia or in a padded room somewhere. I wonder how emailing so quickly took over our lives as quickly as it did. A couple of decades ago email was not the number one [...]
It is amazing how high a pile of little tasks can pile-up if you are not constantly on top of them. This is especially true when they are email related tasks - answer this, look at that, forward a document, take a survey, schedule a meeting, share your thoughts, review minutes, etc., etc. - and [...]
I get an eclectic group of emails on my home email address from a variety of sites, retailers, organizations, and publications I follow. There really is no telling what could end up in my email inbox on any given day. One of the folks I hear regularly from is Oprah. Well, probably not Oprah herself, [...]
I received an email from my friend Katherine Tweed titled, Medical Info Women Should Know. Katherine always sends me great emails - often they are helpful, other times they are thought-provoking, and sometimes they are just plain ol' funny. The email I mentioned above was a bit of all three so I thought I would share the Katherine love [...]
Today I learned from a NDSU colleague that my message to her within the NDSU system was quarantined. Oh my. Apparently, my messages cannot be trusted to mingle with the other email messages. Apparently, in this instance I was recognized as a pariah in the NDSU message system. Where did I go wrong? When did my potential [...]
I received an email that informed me that I had been chosen. Chosen...me...out of how many others...me -chosen. Wow. The email subject line said, "Congrats! You’ve been Chosen to Test & Keep Cooking Products!" Me-chosen. Wow. I was immediately reminded of another time I was chosen. That time I was chosen to test fishing gear. [...]
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