The Final Touch

I don’t know the origin/source of these — they were passed along to me via email — but I love them and wanted to share with all of you! May all your days be days of thanksgiving!

I’m in love with my almost-7-year-old’s brain. Seri­ously. My heart just swells when I think about how intel­li­gent he is. (Please under­stand, I’m not say­ing he’s more intel­li­gent than his brother or his class­mates or any other child; it’s not even so much a mom’s bias at work here as it is amaze­ment at the won­der that is the human brain cre­ated by God.) Yes, I am in love with that mys­te­ri­ous col­lec­tion of gray mat­ter between my lit­tle guy’s ears that makes him capa­ble of doing such things as work­ing his way through a pre­cise series of steps to cre­atively and resource­fully do what he has become fix­ated on doing.

That said, he has — as you might expect of some­one his age — a ways to go in the common-sense depart­ment. In other words, his highly capa­ble brain is some­times too capa­ble for his own good… or for mine. Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t you just LOVE the new logo??!!  See, I can brag about it because I’m not the one who designed it!

So here’s a shout-out to my AWESOME hus­band, who also hap­pens to be a FABULOUS graphic designer, Greg Mann! And a shame­less plug: If you’re in need of graphic-design work — book cover or inte­rior lay­out, posters, brochures, busi­ness cards, logos — he’s the one you want to con­tact! Visit the Face­book page for his busi­ness, Mon­key­Mind Stu­dios, to see pics of his work.

And… I’ve got a chal­lenge for you! There are a num­ber of sym­bols woven into my logo. If you can iden­tify at least one cor­rectly, your name will go into a draw­ing to receive a half-hour of proofreading/copyediting ser­vices from me at no charge (a $10-$15 value). Leave your ideas as a com­ment below. Respond by Mon­day, Novem­ber 7, as that is when I’ll draw the name of a lucky recip­i­ent. You never know when you could use a fresh set of eyes to look over your writ­ing: resume? col­lege appli­ca­tion essay? a paper you’ve writ­ten for school? an arti­cle for pub­li­ca­tion? And there’s no expi­ra­tion date to my offer — only to your chance to respond! So, hey! What are you wait­ing for?!