Review............

Peer review is a great way to get great ideas!  When you ask your peers to give constructive feedback you can gleen so much information.  They may have a different look on things than you do and because you are the one writing the paper you know what you think it says.  While they are the ones actually reading the paper they know what is actually written.  You as an author may read into your writings certain moods or ideas that are not naturally expressed the way that you intended.  By having your peers review your work, you get the idea of how the audience hears or sees your work.  I love feedback, good, bad or indifferent....from all area!  Come on baby, hit me with your best shot!

January 2011....so diffent than 2010

If someone would have told me last January what life would be like this January I would have never believed them.  As one goes through life, there are many times that we come to forks or crossroads where we have to make decisions on which direction to take.  This is where I find myself.  My decisions will affect many people.  My family, friends and myself.  Last January, we placed my fathers ashes in the ground just a day after my brothers 46th birthday.  That was a turning point in my life.  I have since been in a constant state of change the redirection, that at times I feel that I have just been on the most intense roller coaster ever built.  I am looking forward to the future chapters in my life and the lessons to be learned.

Why steal from me??

When I think about plagiarism it makes me feel taken advantage of.  To have worked so hard to have my thoughts, words and ideas be birthed from within and taken to paper just to have someone else claim that it is theirs is discouraging...almost like a personal attack.  Now, if someone felt that what I had to say was good and they gave me the credit, I would be elated.  Just to have one person understand what I was trying to communicate and want to actually share it would build up my confidence.  I now have a new outlook on using others knowledge and giving them the credit they are due.