How could I NOT write about Spring?! It's my favorite season of the year, and, here in the beautiful Red Rock Country and Verde Valley of Northern Arizona, the plants, flowers, trees, and winged ones have been blossoming and chirping, not just for a week, but for months! Yes, literally. And, while I'm not a winter person and have welcomed the very mild temps this past 'winter' (there really hasn't been one), I did hold some concern for Nature. So now that Spring is officially here, my concern is eased...  although I know we could have a snowstorm next month!

In preparing to write this opening greeting, I decided to see what I'd written last year about Spring, knowing full-well I would not have passed the opportunity to mention it!

I read about what I was involved in a year ago and how I was feeling at the early stages of transitioning into being a single woman again and implementing changes into my new life. I'm fascinated at how much of my life today is so wonderfully similar - okay, I've not stuck with work schedule boundaries. The Threshold Singers of Sedona recently celebrated its 1st birthday. My spiritual work now includes participating in a Sacred Family Circle, studying, learning, and practicing nonviolent communication, radical forgiveness, and love for no reason. Friendships - from a year ago, as well as more recently formed ones - continue to get deeper. And, fulfilling work projects with great clients have been accompanied by financial abundance.

And, to end, I continue to be in at least as delightful a space as I was in when I wrote a year ago: "I'm feeling a vibrancy within, enthusiasm, joy, and openness to trying new things, having new adventures... Kind of like a child who is immersed in learning about life and living as a spiritual being having a human experience. And, I feel a great deal more peace."

So, enough about me - how are you?

Blessings,

General Computer

Have you ever copied and pasted something into Word, only to discover it inserts paragraph returns in odd places? [You'll need to have your Show/Hide button on to see them and other Word formatting.] This commonly happens when you copy and paste text from an email or a web page into Word.


If you have a lot of text facing this problem, you'll love this trick! I learned it from Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords. He calls it the QQQ Trick.

1. Press CTRL+H, search for ^p^p and replace it with QQQ
2. Search for ^p and replace it with nothing.
3. Search for QQQ and replace it with ^p^p

Voil� - you have reflowable text again. You may still have a little bit of clean up to do, but this process is really fabulous.

This trick has other uses with other variations. Essentially, you're using a wildcard - QQQ - as a temporary placeholder for something. Note: Mark chose QQQ because the letters are unlikely to ever appear in natural language.

Try it out and email me to let me know what you think about it!

e-Newsletters

I've previously mentioned Michael Katz, an award-winning humorist, entrepreneur and former corporate marketer. Michael has the wonderful ability to provide a "lesson" along with a relevant story that makes his e-newsletters interesting and memorable - and keep me wanting to come back for more! His focus is on solo professionals, but do not be fooled: so often what he writes about is applicable to not just work, but to life.

Wishing you a...
Yours in Spirit,