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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 [...]

It’s about time

In: Blog

13 Nov 2009

It took a while, but BornFamous is finally back on the new server. I had to move the domain back to the old one until I could move all my other sites, for reasons you don’t really care about. Anyway, it’s been an adventure. I finally learned what I’ve been avoiding for YEARS: how to [...]

Cue Etta James music…

In: Blog

20 Oct 2009

“At laaasst… my blog has come along…” Yep, the server was down for like, EVER, so I decided to move to a new host. Then I took a little procrasti-cation to think things over. Because what’s the point of keeping a blog if you don’t, um, BLOG any more? So I had to ask myself [...]


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 -- [...]