September is nearly over and the enthusiasm for school is starting to subside.  Reality is setting in - parents might be dealing with kids who aren’t taking their classwork or homework ’seriously’ or maybe they are discovering that their kids want to do well, but are afraid to ask for help. Parents with kids who are clearly bright, but who aren’t applying themselves in the classroom might be interested in the following resources in this LiveBinder. One article in particular talks about a... Read Full Story

I live on a hill, so a glance from my deck affords me an excellent view of Evelyn’s garden - and this time of year it is spectacular! Evelyn spent 50 years building her garden. The foundation plants include enormous rhododendrons, fabulous camellias, and one sweet-smelling lilac. I wish she were here to see it. She passed away five years ago, but I still think of that inspirational landscape as ‘Evelyn’s garden’. Fortunately the new owner hasn’t changed it too much. Evelyn chiseled her... Read Full Story

There are some really fun and educational sites on the web for kids in elementary school. If you are trying to make a few choices among hundreds start here with this very well thought out and resourceful binder. Websites for Kids Read Full Story

My husband was only in his mid-thirties when he started suffering from debilitating joint pain - primarily in his knees and ankles. He would wake up in the morning almost unable to walk. He started taking aspirin, but soon that wasn’t enough. I had read a little about the dangers of aspartame (NutraSweet) and asked him to try giving up his beloved diet cokes for a couple of days. He said that he probably couldn’t live without them, but he would try. After only a couple of days without the... Read Full Story

If - and that’s a big if - you ever have time to kill online - feel free to use this binder to take a look at some of the more popular blog gossip sites and a few of the popular gossip magazine sites like people.com and e!online. If you’d like to use this binder in the future - just drag the link at the top of the browser to your desktop. It’s never a dull moment… Gossip blogs Read Full Story

I received an email yesterday from a product manager at Google. I am one of  Google’s advertisers and they wanted me to fill out a survey. However, this product manager was not well versed in email marketing 101 and put about 350 the Google advertiser’s email address in the ‘to:’ line. I have had several people already take advantage of this and spam me. This was a minor mistake on the product manager’s part, but the implications are huge. Doesn’t Google have protections in place to... Read Full Story

The city in my neighborhood bought a little triagluar empty lot in hopes of making it a park someday. There are not many parks in my neighborhood, so the neighbors have all been waiting to see what would happen on this tiny corner lot. But waiting for something to happen from a government entity is a tedious process. Recently we have decided to drive this process instead of wait. I have never been involved in city politics. (Though I do have experience in working with schools and... Read Full Story

If you live in the East Bay and are training for a triathlon, it would be useful to know where there are places you can swim, courses you can bike and trails you can run. One of our users put together this very nice binder. click on the link below to see if it can make your training life easier. Triathlon Read Full Story

In my spare time, I coach entrepreneurs on ‘how to pitch venture capitalists’ for Astia - a fabulous organization that supports women entrepreneurs in both technology and life sciences. My problem is that I do this as a volunteer and - though I would love to spend all the time in the world with these companies - I don’t have much spare time. So I gathered together the best resources on the web on how to do venture presentations and put them in a binder. Now I send the binder to the... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "LiveBinders". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article... Read Full Story