photo credit: borrowed time | demi-brooke

In the few weeks while I was working on the renewal series to nowheresville, tending my kids until I got to shout ‘yippee’ and skip down the street after the school bus came and got ‘em, I’ve been collecting, yet again, a host of odd thoughts, mentions and links to ponder.

In no particular order:

• Bob Bly and I – whoa, and in the same article no less – were interviewed by the lovely and talented Pattie Simone for an article in WomenEntrepreneur.com … For Compelling Copywriting, Hire a Pro
• Mike Stelzner is running his 3rd annual “Name Your Favorite Writing Blog” Contest. My copywriting partner in crime, Tom Chandler, was kind enough to give me a nod. He even said I was humorous on occasion. Perhaps you’d like to give a Maven nomination shout-out, too.
• Today is my son’s 11th birthday. In honor of this event, my MIL sent a huge collection of my hubby’s GI Joes with accessories (now completely vintage and Ebay-able) for my son’s enjoyment. It struck me that in the late ’60s/early ’70s you couldn’t sell candy cigarettes or bubble gum cigars anymore but you could sell strikingly detailed M-16s, rocket launchers, and hand grenades for children to play with. Nice.
• I’m late on this but I loved Obama’s speech. It made this middle-aged woman – and Clinton supporter – feel hopeful and inspired.
• On the other hand, if Rudy Guiliani uses the obsolete boogey man phrase, “socialized medicine” one more time, I think I’m going to scream. Right now, I don’t think there’s anyone – especially freelancers – who would mind a little (okay, a lot) of socialized medicine right now. Keeping our family in COBRA coverage when my husband was laid off was a huge hardship when we went from being a 2-income to 1-income family for a while – and when we could least afford it. Get with it, GOP.
• More and more mail from Capital One. Looks like they’re keeping an army of copywriters busy drumming up new tests. Lots of different envelope colors and textures. Lots of different ‘lumps’ inside the carrier.
• This made me laugh – YouTube in 1985
• This made me laugh even harder

And now a request … in my search for the perfect collection of anti-aging everything, I’m looking for suggestions for the best undereye concealer. Ladies (and gents) – what’s your pleasure?