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Free Ads Day is Expired. Here’s What’s NEW!

125×125 ad space just $5.

Interviewing my favorite undertaker: Caleb Wilde

“As a kid, I played hide-and-go-seek in caskets.” -Caleb Wilde

Give some, get some (my Birthday giveaway treat)

My Hello Somebody charity giveaway.

What a Woman is Worth with Tamara Lunardo

“We can’t believe the lies the world tells us (women) about our worth” -Tamara Lunardo

Rolf Potts leaves baggage behind

…”time=wealth” -Rolf Potts

The Human Profile (10 questions)

#4 People appreciate my contributions.

Free Ads Day is Expired. Here’s What’s NEW!

This blog now offer Advertising spots of 125 x 125 pixels. And what a bargain they are! 6 main spots rotate with ads, and are on sidebars of both the homepage and interior pages. You only need $5 to get in on it.

• Interested•

1. Use the contact form in the sidebar if interested, and include the link for where your ad should point.

2. Let me know what you want to use for your image (maybe something from your website, or a personal photo, for instance.) 

3. Use the secure Paypal buy now button to select the option you prefer and purchase your ad space. Multiple week buys are discounted.

Ads runs Wednesday-Wednesdays, but may posted before Wednesday, at no extra charge. 

Please pass along this offer to anyone you think would like to promote themselves, for cheap.

$5 can get you:

• Get more hits on your website.

• Promote your latest project or post series

• Get cheap exposure for your ministry, group, book, product, or service.

I hope to hear from you soon!

-Lisa

-Rates are good until March 31, 2012, and then are subject to change.

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Interviewing my favorite undertaker: Caleb Wilde

I’ve appreciated Caleb Wilde’s blog for quite a while now. It could be my own experience with grief, suffering, and the dying process that makes Caleb’s sentiments on death and unique perspective a kind of solace to me.

If death and dying has touched your world, I think you’ll feel the same way about his blog. If it hasn’t, at some point it will. That’s just the facts.

Speaking from experience, I suggest purposefully familiarizing yourself with the inevitable issues of mortality (your own and your loved ones’) before they arrive without warning and manage to capsize your world, crush your faith, or in some other way batter you. And for purposes of minister and soul care it’s quite helpful too.

This is part one of our chat. Check back this week for part 2.

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Give some, get some (my Birthday giveaway treat)

I will resume blog posts at the end of next week. Until then, remember…

There’s just 1 week left in the Birthday giveaway.

 This year I’m giving to the charity Hello Somebody (go ahead check them out).
I will giveaway a Hello-Somebody watch in 7 days. To be eligible comment on any post on this blog before February 23 (so that means 23 eligible days, if you’re keeping track). Somebody will be chosen at random, and boom! poor people will get a cow, or clean water, or something they need. And IF wearing a ginormous watch isn’t your thing, I’ll have it shipped to the person of your choice.
(I also recommend that when you look at your new watch you pray for them, and thank God for the luxury you live in. Sounds like a beneficial spiritual practice to me anyway. That’s my plan, and I hope you join me.)
Tweet about this post, and you get to choose your color of watch too. (Tweet with the hash tag #Bday so I can find you.) The more times you comment or tweet, the better your chances get.
If you give to Hello-Somebody this month, before Feb 23, you get special honors here at the blog.
Have a great day, and count your blessings, one-by-one!

selection of hello somebody watches

 

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What a Woman is Worth with Tamara Lunardo

Tamara Lunardo has only been blogging for a couple of years, but thanks to her openness on some touchy (and important) topics, her audience has grown rapidly. Sometimes Tamara uses salty language or speaks about the realities of life…and sex, and it turns out Christians have a huge fascination with that sort of thing. Go figure!

Enjoy a snapshot of our time together, were we discuss her community project through Civitas Press called What a Woman is Worth. Through a collection of essays, this book (due out in a few months) confronts disparaging views of women and affirms the female gender to do whatever God has uniquely gifted them to do. You go, girl! Be assured this video is all very PG, honest.

16 other videos interviews are at the YouTube channel (you can subscribe to the channel and never miss out on the latest enlightening chat).

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Rolf Potts leaves baggage behind

By way of a recap, I’m suspending my blogging for a while, but I’m still going to post a few more interviews. I hope you enjoy them.

The bio of Rolf Potts reads like a who’s-who of celebrated travel writers. His NO BAGGAGE Challenge last year highlighted the idea that travel can be much simpler than we tend to think. He trekked over 30,000 miles without a single bag to weigh him down.

The same mentality can be helpful in life too, according to Rolf. Enjoy watching this short chat we had, (and subscribe to the youtube channel for more great stuff).

Besides his website that contains some great articles, blog posts, and case studies in vagabonding–here are 2 of Rolf’s book that make great reading:

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The Human Profile (10 questions)

This is a reflective month for me. I’m going to enter my 4th decade. So, I’ve decided to do things at the blog differently for the next few weeks. For one, I’m going to suspend blogging until I get enough responses to the questions below which belong to a greater project. 

Any comments left here before February 23rd, entitle you a chance for my 3rd annual Birthday gift giveaway. I enjoy giving presents on my birthday, just like hobbits do. It will be both a gift to you and to the charity Hello-Somebody. Please consider giving this month and support this charity. Thank you for visiting.

(I will also release 3 more video interviews this month on my youtube channel.)

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Directions: Give yourself 10 points for every time you answer “yes”.

Answer Yes or No to the following, (think generally, and if you’re split 50/50, score a 5, if you want to):

1. I am in control of my surroundings.

2. I am sure of myself.

3. I receive positive feedback for my capabilities.

4. People appreciate my contributions.

5. I am able to understand and implement things easily.

6. I lead people well.

7. I communicate well.

8. I find ways to get people help me complete a goal.

9. I enjoy sharing news of my successes.

10. I am happy with my competency level, in my area of interest.

Please share your score. 

(Will you help me spread the word? I hope to have 30-50 people share their score for my project and future post. AND Remember. Anonymous posts of scores (or any general comments) are permitted, even encouraged.)

THANK YOU!!

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What are you doing?

If you can’t be wise or insightful, at least be amusing. But not at the expense of someone else.

- some British sounding voice in my head

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