Suite 101 Articles

My recent article on Yoga for Weight Loss has really taken off on Suite 101.

Oddly, my article on Yoga for Arthritis Pain has not done nearly as well as I would have expected. Methinks it needs some external linkage and a bit of pageranking to do the trick.

Voilá.

Customer Feedback

I need to put this on my main website / portfolio page, but I needed to post it somewhere. My very first official, paid web copy SEO job (beyond Suite) and this was the feedback I recieved from my customer:

"Alicia was very instrumental in helping me implement my ideas, taking them from subconsiousness to written material, for this project. Her response to communications between us was fast (within hour) and effective. With the talent and creativity that Alicia possesses, is sure to help you and your project reach that next level. I would highly recommend her to others seeking her professional skills and manner. I look forward to working with her for the long term."

Introvert Guilt

In my emails with another Suite 101 writer, I mentioned my own travails with "Introvert Guilt." and and she turned it into a fantastic article.

I am the "interviewee" on this one, not the writer, but it's pretty telling all the same.

Enjoy this peek into the world of introverts......

"High School Musical" Brain

ETHAN: Do you know why I like to watch "High School Musical" so much, Daddy?
BRETT: Why, buddy?
ETHAN: Because when I watch it, I get a "High School Musical" Brain.


Never before has the English language captured so completely what happens when these earworms reach the auditory nerve.

I have officially had a "High Schoool Musical" Brain for the past month.

I wake up in the morning with "Fabulous" stuck in my head. Not only is "Fabulous" one of the most obnoxious songs on the High School Musical 2 soundtrack, it is the least suited to me and my personality of all of those tracks available to have tunneled its insidious way into my cranium.

She needs something in inspiring to help her get along,
She needs a little Fabulous is that so wrong?

Yes, yes it is indeed wrong.

I've decided that this is some sort of Jungian shadow work - that I need hours of therapy to unmask my own inner horrors of shallow spoiled rich-kid materialism.


















Iced Tea imported from England
Lifeguard imported from Spain
Towels imported from turkey
Turkey imported from Mai-ai-ai-ne.

This has bothered me so much I finally had to go look it up.

Imports and Exports are defined as from one country to another - not from State to State!

ME to NM is not importing - it's shipping.

Somebody put on some Britney Spears, I'd rather have that stuck in my head....

Artist Dates for "Walking in this World"

I'm going on an Idea Hunt.

I need as many ideas as I can find, so anyone out there please add in your comments with options and ideas.....

Artist Date Ideas!!? GOT ANY?

I figure that through the course of my several attempts at completing "The Artist's Way", I've formally completed roughly 15 or 16 Artist Dates during the processes, and countless numbers outside of the various time periods.

In fact, my problem isn't that I don't know how to go on an Artist Date. I go on them so often, that now that I'm trying to complete "Walking in this World", I'm left feeling like the Artist date suggestions I read in the book or find online are nothing special.

Fingerpainting on a brown paper bag? What else does one do on a rainy Saturday afternoon? Clean the house? Hardly!

Because I do these things naturally now, I keep fighting the urge to make my "official" Artist Dates Bigger BOLDER and MORE SPECTACULAR than ever before. And I don't have any extra cash for this sort of thing to be accomplished on a very grand scale right now.

This week, I'm going to do this Artist Date Idea that I found on my ever lovin' Suite 101, but I'm going to be hurting for the next several weeks' worth of cheap, creative AD's that aren't going to feel like everyday goofy me.

Because I know I'm not the only person online brainstorming after this sort of thing, here's a list of some of my favorite / most memorable Artist Dates:

• Sat in the Atrium of the Atlanta Airport for several hours watching people in Limbo, Arrivals and Departures. Journaled everything I saw. (cost: $0.00)
• Sent for "You Are Beautiful" stickers and put them places I thought they needed to be. (cost: $0.82 for 2 stamps - one sending & one SASE.)
• Took a "Go-Go Stillettos" Dance Class (cost $10 w/ first class discount)
• Took a "free trial" yoga class (and never stopped)
• Free arts events at area universities (all of them have them all of the time - openings, readings, concerts, speakers)
• Attended Open Mic Nights and Poetry readings all over town - I'm still looking for the place where I want to be heard. (cost varies by cover $0 - $5)
• Set up a "Poetry on Demand" table at my yard sale (á la Natalie Goldberg's "spontaneous poetry booth") (cost $2.50 for supplies, but I made it back charging $0.50 poem)
• Art museum with my journal in hand for ongoing notes of impressions. (Note: take a pencil, they don't like you to use pens inside the museum.) (cost: $0.00 I think it's the 1st Friday for Fulton County residents... Don't remember. It really is possible, though!)
• Going on a Word Hunt at the Library (the children's section is especially useful for this) cost: $0.00

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Happy New Year!

As I described in my Suite 101 Blog this week, my New Year’s Resolutions this year reflect a need for grounding, and room to grow and change.

Most of the goals I've set are to support all of the changes that are going on in my professional life. My last day of work for AT&T will be January 11th. It's terrifying and wonderful at the same time. A little like falling in love with Brett had been (which is part of the reason why I know this is right). I know I'm taking a huge leap of faith, so I'm making sure I've got the internal support I'll need to keep leaping.

I've reviewed my short and long term goals, and my mission statement, and I've set myself up with the shortest list of resolutions I've ever done:

• Permission Slips (to release the "shoulds")
• Daily Writing Practice - journaling and additional work
• Daily Yoga Practice
• Finish RYT Training
• Going on Adventures
• Finish the "Walking in this World" 12-week process (see subsequent blog entry on Artist Dates)
• Regularly scheduled Solitude
• Bike a Century
• Purging the house of excess clutter
• 101 articles on Suite 101

The basic reason behind such a short list, behind the support for change without the definition of the plans to change is because of the Defining Quote I used at the top of my page this year:

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell

New Year’s Resolutions don’t have to be set in stone.

I prefer mine to be a little more like clay.