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Are you a flake?

In: Blog

6 Apr 2010

Join the club. That’s the Urban Dictionary’s definition of a flake. Ouch. I’m such a flake, I decided to start a whole new blog about it: The Complete Flake. It’s all about my efforts to get things done in spite of myself, and maybe help others figure out some solutions along the way. Check it [...]

Road trip!

In: Blog

14 Mar 2010

Okay, I’m talking WAY in advance here – a year – but I’m too excited not to blog about it. Plus, I want to save my dream itinerary for future reference: View Larger Map My friend Lindy and I decided I should go visit her in Alabama sometime after Mardi Gras when the weather is [...]

My twenty-something nephew is a pretty impressive guy. He’s tall, good-looking – and hungry. He wants to make something of himself and he’s willing to work hard for it. I remember when Sam [not his real name] was fourteen and getting ready to enter high school. He decided to try out for the state champion [...]

Now that I’ve moved this site and a dozen or so others to the new server, I’ve installed WordPress MU on Bornfamous and plan to consolidate the blogs of friends, relatives and personal projects into it, so there will only be one WPMU installation to keep track of instead of eight individual WP installs. So [...]

MUCH better

In: Design|Wordpress

26 Nov 2009

I am SO. LOVING. this theme, called Compositio, from Design Disease. [And it's free--go figure.] It’s so perfect, I don’t want to even TRY to customize it. Maybe just a logo. Or not.


About this blog

I'm not really famous. In case you were wondering. But I tried. I once believed that fame makes you real - a perversion of "The Velveteen Rabbit" theme that love makes you real. Guess I equated fame with love. Sad. You can read more about that here.

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  • How I Went Vegan — The Complete Flake: [...] of months, that’s all it takes. If you want to store food for several years, there’ [...]
  • LaVonne Ellis: Smart! Half a dozen or more of those abandoned websites are mine, lol. This one almost became one of [...]
  • Mike Korner: Twitter is definitely unique LaVonne. Like all tools, it is valuable/powerful in the right hands and [...]
  • LaVonne Ellis: Thanks, Mike. You make some excellent points. I've been going back and forth about sending this [...]
  • Mike Korner: Hang in there LaVonne! Your nephew sounds like the kind of person who will find a way to succeed -- [...]