The past, is the past, is the past.

The past is just that... past. But sometimes, revisiting some of those lessons refreshes in our minds that we have overcome things, that we have learned life lessons, and that we should pay attention to our PRESENT so that we do not keep repeating those lessons. 

Following is a poem I wrote 10 years ago. I was divorced, pretending that life was great and that the future was bright. I was sleep-walking through my days, trying to remain busy, trying to convince myself that the decision to end my marriage was a good one. In the end, the loss was a lot greater than even I knew at the time. I did not mourn the end of that time until over 1 year later. Then, it just seemed to hit me out of the blue. It took a few days for me to even realize WHY I was so sad. 

Effective use of Twitter to promote business

I follow an Independent Travel Writer on Twitter. Her name is Terri Marshall and her Twitter handle is @trippingwterri. I follow her to read about all her travels and because I would love to live that kind of life. She posts regularly and has a huge following of over 5,000. She not only posts about her travels but will sometimes include links to the articles that are published with her writing. The types of messages she posts are informative, but also personal as she includes information about her grandchildren and her home life.

In my college class textbook, Social Corp, it talks about using social media to reach the right people. Specifically, it states that “reaching the right people means being prepared to engage in conversations where people ‘live’ on the web” (Ch 5). I feel that she uses Twitter effectively and has built a reputable brand for herself which not only helps her to obtain new writing assignments but also informs people, like me, that would love to write about traveling. I have learned so much about the places that she visits. She would not need to use Twitter to “change” any of her brandings, but if she needed to, she could focus on specific types of writing assignments in order to gain more job offers about that specific type of assignment. In other words, she can “steer” the attention towards the types of jobs that she would be most interested in pursuing. 

She is also NOT afraid to call out businesses that have done her wrong and I feel she has had success with overcoming billing errors and bad service with her use of Twitter. If anyone is interested in traveling or in travel writing, I would suggest you take a look at her Tweets.