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September 04, 2008 01:32 PM EDT --
If you love puzzles and want to save the cost of buying puzzle books or newspapers just to get your daily fix, I have good news. You already have access to more puzzles than you will have time to do - . . .
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September 04, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
I had been avoiding Associated Content since they stopped paying for upfront submissions, but today I had a rare lull in my assigned writing work (which is one reason I've been away from Gather . . .
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April 19, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
I just tried to submit an article at Associated Content and discovered that their promoted "more control over your content" means just what I feared it would -- no more upfront payment for previously . . .
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December 14, 2007 04:25 PM EST --
I have recently started submitting articles here and at Associated Content after a few months away, and I just had an article rejected for upfront payment there (at AC) because it was already published . . .
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December 12, 2007 12:07 PM EST --
“I got a pocket full of quarters, and I’m headed to the arcade,” sang Buckner & Garcia in the song “Pac-Man Fever.” Though I grew up when kids across the country . . .
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December 10, 2007 03:02 PM EST --
A toddler had control of nearly $1,000 of our household budget this year. Yes, you read that right: how our family spent more than a thousand dollars depended on the whims of a child . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
I am currently working part-time as a freelance writer and am considering doing so full-time when my kids are older (my full-time job is taking care of them), but I hate marketing my writing and am . . .
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September 12, 2007 08:10 AM EDT --
Whether you pursue one hobby or one hundred, equipment and supplies can get expensive. Thankfully, there are ways to have money to spare while enjoying your spare time. These ten tips can apply . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
I am fascinated with old postcards -- both the pictures on the front and the long-forgotten messages on the back. I wouldn't call myself a collector, but I occasionally buy cards associated . . .
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June 12, 2007 07:38 PM EDT --
Frank Warren's PostSecret project (www.postsecret.com) invites people to send in postcards with their secrets on them. My curiousity about what kinds of secrets people would confess on postcards . . .
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May 30, 2007 07:31 AM EDT --
You might think I have this title backwards -- shouldn't it be Christianity Today on Evan Almighty? No, yesterday, I got my copy of CT, and it had Evan Almighty on it -- all over it, in fact. . . .
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May 29, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
I once started talking with a woman I knew from church, and I learned that she had gone to college at Kent State. She seemed to be about the right age (an assumption I sometimes am reluctant to make, . . .
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May 28, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
In honor of the new Spanish group Rico has created (thanks, Rico!) I want to retell a story about false cognates that I remember my college Spanish teacher, Sta. Forrester, telling us in a class:
An American . . .
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May 23, 2007 07:55 PM EDT --
Lately, it seems like a lot of books I've been reading use alternating points of view. I don't know if more authors are writing this way now than in the past or if I'm just noticing it . . .
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May 15, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
Here are 5 positive things about myself:
I am good at improving other people's writing, probably better than I am at writing myself.
I am an independent thinker, so I don't do many things just . . .
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April 15, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
I was born a month before my mother’s forty-fifth birthday, at a time when it was still unusual for women to have children in their forties. My mother had served as a Girl Scout leader, Sunday . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:35 PM EDT --
I know I’m out of sync with the tastes of mainstream America, but the television networks remind me of this fact frequently by canceling shows that I enjoy. I have followed some hits from the . . .
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April 10, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
I recently had a book review declined at Associated Content with the statement that they don't generally pay for reviews of novels. Fair enough -- if it had been a review of a novel! I . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
I just read Yvette Francino's February article about the word grok: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976912787
It got me thinking about common words & phrases that English . . .
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March 19, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
For several years, I have been both an independent contractor and an investor. Each year at tax time, I dreaded finding that I should have paid estimated quarterly taxes. This year (2007), . . .
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