After falling asleep at my computer last night, while working on the original "Blogging Truths Be Told" post for today and then waking up in the wee hours of the morning to use the bathroom, here's what came to me. Instead of continuing to rework the post I had before me, I decided to scrap it altogether. I decided to pick up my handy dandy phone, audio record myself sharing a few thoughts about blogging to my blogging audience, and then transcribe those words that morning to my blog site.…

Before I go any further with the DOM Build-a-Book market research, it's time to put the breaks on, stand still for a moment, and take on that whole "ma'am with a plan" outlook for this current book baby I'm trying to nourish and grow. I was so completely ready to feed this bookling a full course meal with plenty of meaty content before even giving it milk to start off with, but . . . 

Okay, enough of my baby analogies. What I'm getting at here is the idea that I can't put the cart…

Now, I tend to be of the mindset that we don't need much of a nudge in the right direction when we're "feeling" the task before us. We'll give it all we've got and then some, if need be. BUT . . . there are those instances when the task before us is one of the "undesirables" that we tend to pack away for a future date, or try to forget altogether, because we just don't want to do the thing.

You know what I mean?

It's like this: if there really was such a thing as…

Cover . . . Outward Appearance . . . First Impression. How would you finish the title? Well, several times recently, I've found myself thinking deeply about today's topic. And every time I do so, I become more and more upset by the abundance of attention people place on the wrong things and the lack of attention they place on the right things.

I suppose societal norms have set us up to ooooo and ahhhh over superficial stuff that doesn't really amount to much when you put it up against…