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Judy Dunn is a writer, blogger and content marketing specialist. Her blog, Cat's Eye Writer, is on the alltop.com list of best blogs and a winner of a Write to Done Best Blogs for Writers award. Judy is currently working on her first book, a memoir of her teaching years.
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.
I wrote a blog post at Cat’s Eye Writer last spring called “Blogging Is Writing Is Life.” My dad had just died and I wanted to celebrate his life. One reader’s comment surprised me. She said, “When I found out your dad had died, I immediately thought about that post you wrote about trying to [...]
In my younger days of entrepreneurship, after I left teaching but before I found my true life’s passion, I tried on a few different business ideas. My first rule for launching a business was that I would need to have fun. There were other requirements, of course, but if it wasn’t something I absolutely loved [...]
Several months ago, someone stole my blog. Technically, they copied it word for word and slapped it up on the Web with a bunch of disgusting, spammy links. Boy, was I pissed. Long story short, I had moved my blog from Typepad to WordPress and someone snatched up my old domain. Can’t quite figure out [...]
Take a page from the Major League Baseball playbook and learn how to get out of your blogging slump.
The old British comedy series Monty Python is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows. They had a way of flipping overused ideas upside down and making something new out of them. In one skit, John Cleese and company took the tired old cliché of the superhero and turned him into: “Daht-dah-dah-dah… Bicycle Repair [...]
Do you remember Apple Computers’ brilliant 1997 Think Different ad campaign? It was narrated perfectly by Richard Dreyfus, with actual footage of people in history who chose to break the rules every now and then. And whether you are a PC user or a Mac addict, who wouldn’t want to be invited to join a [...]
Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, would have been a kick-ass blogger. He died in 1991, 8 years before blogs, short for weblogs, even had a name. Still one of the most loved children’s book authors in the world, Dr. Seuss wrote 4 of the 10 all-time bestselling books in kid lit. Generations of [...]
My 15 Minutes of Not Existing: Do Your Blog’s Readers Feel Invisible?
Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my husband Bob and I walked [...]