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Overnight Success

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:55:51 +0000

On July 30, my daughter turned 5. She had been eagerly anticipating this event for weeks and weeks. Every morning she would ask, “Is it my birthday yet?” I’d tell her that her birthday was still two weeks away. “Is that the day after this day?” When the big day finally arrived, we sang her [...]

Becoming elite

lauraposter — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:34:10 +0000

Service providers become elite by doing only the absolute finest work for clients. Becoming elite requires that you only work with the very best partners. In my case as a writer that means the tip top designers, interactive developers, agencies, etc. This also requires that you only work with clients that will allow you to [...]

Soundtrack

lauraposter — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:02:49 +0000

As someone who grew up active in band, choir and piano (and dreamed of being a Broadway superstar!), I honestly don’t listen to music much now-a-days. I’m more of a book on tape girl. (I’m almost finished with Adored by Tilly Bagshawe and it’s trashy and fabulous for all you ladies who need a beach [...]

Do your customers feel special?

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:39 +0000

I thought everyone had caught on to this game by now. Customers like to feel special. It gets our attention. Here, I feel special: One of the trainers at my gym sent me an e-mail last Friday. He told me that it had been very nice to meet me last week, and asked if I [...]

Canceling the family dinner

lauraposter — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:18:30 +0000

For a long time, I carried a lot of guilt about not having a family meal on a regular basis. I mean, by all accounts, this is what makes a family, right? Sitting down at dinner each night, spending quality time. I treasured family dinners when I was growing up. We laughed and talked. My [...]

Why not?

lauraposter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:50:18 +0000

This summer has been crazy so far. With school out, our nice constant schedule has been completely obliterated. It seems we’re always running to one thing or another – summer camps, birthday parties, piano lessons, play dates. But all this time with my kids has really recharged my creative juices. It’s taken me out of [...]

And finally…

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:09:41 +0000

For the most part, my site is back up. Hoorah! After my unfortunate hacking, I have a few lessons learned. Please take it from me and don’t let this happen to you! 1. Always update wordpress and install security. Seriously. ALWAYS. 2. Always back up. After years of writing content for clients in information security, [...]

Recovering from a hacking

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:37:31 +0000

Unfortunately, my site got hacked and I’m starting over. If you’d like to know more about me while I’m putting my site back up, visit me on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/laurarees.

Tomorrow

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:43 +0000

Tomorrow My kids were off school between Christmas and New Years, so we had a lot of quality time together. My son is content to entertain himself, but my four year old, Lillian, loves nothing more than my constant attention. “Will you play Hungry Hungry Hippos?” “Can we dress Barbies?” “Let’s be family.” (I always [...]

Best books of 09

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:13:45 +0000

I just counted, and according to my GoodReads page, I’ve read 46 books this year. Now, to be fair, I have to admit that most of it was escape fiction. Not too many life changing pieces of literature. But I made a conscious effort to read instead of watching TV this year, so I’m pleased [...]