Design quote

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do you suffer from “silver lining syndrome?”

I just saw a tweet on Twitter that said something like, “Always look for the good in every bad situation.” Usually, a good piece of advice rings in my spirit, but this piece of advice rubbed me the wrong way just a bit. Here’s why…

Thanks for the birthday shout out, Google…

I’ve been working all day, and I’ve had to go to Google.com several times. You know how they’re always changing their logo when there’s a special occasion, right? So I go there today, and the logo letters are in the shape of cakes and cupcakes with candles, and I was thinking, “Hm, I wonder whose […]

My mother’s pro-choice…

45 years and about nine months ago, my mother was a college student and a single parent to my older sister. That’s not to say my daddy wasn’t around, because he was, as he was a student at the same college where my mother was a student. And, of course, he was there when my […]

I got a new cellphone…

…a couple of months back, and I was going to do the “buy back” program through Sprint on my old phone. Then I decided to keep it, because it’s still a good phone and I’ll have it if something happens to my current phone. I know people who have traded in their old phones for […]

Once upon a time: a lesson in authentic charity…

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Marvin whose home was a cardboard box deep in the city park that existed in the middle of a very busy part of the downtown business district. Many homeless people lived deep in the park, because they knew that all the busy people going to and […]

Business etiquette

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My latest Twitter rant to authors…

The link I keep referring to in these tweets is to an article I wrote, Do you know where your book is?, and posted on the Independent Author Index. Each time authors check only Amazon for where their books are being sold, I want to make them read this: http://t.co/FShvLuHa4f — Faydra Deon (@faydra_deon) July […]