I've been an awful Steemian. Life totally got in the way, and other than a weekly short story written on my personal blog, I've written a whole lotta nothing! I tell you, I cannot wait for the golf club

I promised myself I would get more writing done yet I cannot seem to get control of my time. Sigh. For now, all I can do is share with you my 100-word story this week. Thank you for taking the time to

For those who've never experienced the adrenaline rush of Joburg traffic, the concept of pointsmen might be new to you. Joburg is known, fairly or unfairly (for those of us who've survived traffic in Tripoli,

The Steemit community is an amazing place and we can keep it that way if we all avoid the five biggest mistakes you can make on Steemit. 1. Not Backing Up Your Password You don't want to be locked out

Maybe I've been under a rock for the last five decades, but when I saw this safety pin on a clothing tag, I was flabbergasted. I had never seen such a pin. Someone had tinkered with Walter Hunt's design,

your unfinished poem lies alone on my desk... empty of tears. I only hope it rains today. © 2017, John J Geddes. All rights reserved

Hey, hey, hey there! Hope all is well with you. I've not been posting as I wish here at Steemit as my time has been severely mortgaged. I am terribly addicted to my Friday Fictioneers challenge, so at

Do not put money as a goal. Achieve success you can only in the case that you love. Go in this life to those things that you love, and do it so well that others can not look away from you. (Maya Angelou)

(please follow and upvote i will do the same for you)

Good day, my fellow Steemians! Time for Friday Fictioneers. This week's photo is courtesy of J.Hardy Carroll, a fine writer to be sure. Our hostess is über-talented Rochelle Wisoff-Fields who, without

Rather abruptly in May, I learned the company I was working for was shutting down its business development team and retrenching the two senior business development managers. No prizes for guessing that

Imagine my relief when I realised that some brave marketeer had managed to keep an army of devious raisins from infesting an innocent package of muesli. Maybe even a whole batch. It's as if someone figured

How to successfully Create a following one step at a time. From the beginning of steemit there has been a culture of Follow me and ill follow you back. Today, i want to discuss about why this is a bad

Bird of Prey - Eagle - Photography Today I am sharing with your guys my favorite Bird of Prey and I want to thank @pythonpaige for reminding me of the eagles again. check her profile out.   This picture

I have been macerating this post for months... more like years. Okay, for so long that much of the programming has changed! I decided I better do it now before there are more changes! I started listening

Le jardin de François, un jardin à découvrir à Saint-Sauveur. C’est un jardin à l’anglaise de 7 acres (2,8 ha), situé dans les Laurentides en bordure de la Rivière-à-Simon, sur un terrain accidenté aménagé

Now that I am all set up, I can get back into the game of reading, resteeming, posting... ;-) I felt quite disconnected for that whole week! Maybe it's not a bad thing but it did make me realise just how

Image source Ever since I first heard that film title, The Getting of Wisdom, I was entranced with the idea that getting older is actually about the getting of wisdom. Not getting wise, since that implies

Last week I managed to write a post using my ancient iPad. I just couldn't seem to copy the text onto this forum so... now that I am fully connected to a real computer, I figured I'd share with you my