Approximate reading time: 4 minutes This year I set out to write a complete story in the span of 30 days. My plan was to write every weekday and not stop to edit until the whole draft was done. Despite the fact that I ramble often for other people, I have never sustained a personal writing …
A-minus Mama Blogcast Season 4: Business Time
Approximate reading time: 1 minute In what continues to be a season of comedic timing, Season 4 of the blogcast drops just as I’m taking a break from client work for the next few months. Go figure. You can listen to episodes below or through iTunes and Google Play. Episode 1: The Myth of Passion …
My Favorite Things: Black Friday 2018 Edition
Approximate reading time: 4 minutes A couple of my favorite brands are doing cool things for Black Friday / Small Business Saturday / Cyber Monday / Giving Tuesday. Here they are in one place so you don’t have to search. Passion Planner I’ve been a faithful Passion Planner user since 2016 and while I don’t …
To My Child Two Years Later
Approximate reading time: 2 minutes Two years ago, the country of your birth and mine elected a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-intellectual demagogue. Two days ago, some of your compatriots resisted, while others did not. And that is how it will always be. In the last two years, children have died at schools and concerts and …
A-minus Mama Blogcast Season 3: Identity & Branding
View PostNaNoWriMo Kickoff 2018
Approximate reading time: 5 minutes I am going to try something exciting and unprecedented this November: National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo for short. The official goal is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. But people have expanded it to all kinds of genres and lengths from poetry to book proposals. The real …
The Ministry of Web Design (and Blogging and Copywriting and Graphics)
Approximate reading time: 5 minutes As the child of Asian immigrant Christians, I had a set of rather confusing, somewhat conflicting beliefs about what my priorities ought to be. “Being godly” and “serving God” and “obeying God’s calling” were obviously supposed to take precedent. (Quotation marks are not sarcastic, just indicating that these are phrases …
Marketing Ideas for Photography
View PostMarketing Strategies for Wedding Planners
Approximate reading time: 4 minutes When I stepped away from teaching after my first year in the classroom, the first career alternative I investigated was wedding planning. I took a certification course through Penn Foster. I even joined the Association of Bridal Consultants. Pretty much all I ever did with that was go on two …