Today I just want to take a quick minute and share this holiday gift guide I created with you. I’ve been really busy lately (in a good way) and I did a little holiday shopping this week. It feels good to have that out of the way early for a change since I’m usually the one doing my last minute shopping the few days before Christmas.

==> Great Gadget Gifts for Writers and Bloggers

This gift guide is perfect for anyone on your list who is working from home, a writer, an author, a blogger, a virtual assistant, a list maker, note taker, or someone who generally has a pen or keyboard in hand, probably much like yourself. So, I confess it’s half a wish list for myself of tools and gadgets I’d like to have and then includes a few things that I already have that I absolutely love, like my netbook!

I hope you enjoy the list and happy holiday shopping!

Kind Regards,

Every week Nicole Dean asks a group of internet marketing experts a question in a series called Expert Briefs and I found this week’s question particularly interesting and it brings up the opportunity to think imaginatively.

This week Nicole asked….

Let’s say that you’re being paid a million dollars to be stranded on a deserted island for one month. You’ll have a nice bungalow and will have food and water delivered as well as necessities like soap and sunscreen – but NO technology.
You can, however, pack up to 10 books.
Which books would you bring? Why?

and I thought it would be fun to blog my own list of 10 books to take along with me while I’m stranded far away from everything with no technology. (Gosh, that is sounding more and more fun every day.) Read the rest of this entry

Welcome back to VA Helper! Thank you so much for bearing with me during my little blogging hiatus and for the great little notes I got in my email asking if everything was okay. I’m back again and ready to dive right back in and get things moving here.

So, where have I been? I’d like to tell you that I’ve just been super busy. And I have been pretty busy, but that’s not all that’s kept me from the blog. Well, the hard truth is that I’ve been really sick, whether I wanted to admit it or not I was sick for several months. Any time I was upright and not in bed feeling miserable I spent working on transcription and scratching things off the to-do list. Unfortunately, I was spending more time feeling miserable than working or spending time with my family. I’m finally feeling quite a bit better and ready to work hard and get things back to the way I like them again. Read the rest of this entry