FREE Goal Planning from www.SelfDevelopmentStrategies.com

Ok folks! Just launched my website - www.SelfDevelopmentStrategies.com - you can now get your own copy of my eBook (yes, I actually DID write one myself! ) to help you understand and plan personal goals and objectives. Check out my page, and the video below.

I have lots of great newsletters to add to the mix as well.

Thanks! :) Kath

Do You Squidoo? I LOVE Squidoo!

I have definitely been on a Squidoo joyride lately. For some reason, I absolutely love it!

It started about a year ago, when I began reading Pot Pie Girl's One Week Marketing Plan and started making these cool little "Squidoo Lenses," which are - for lack of a better definition - mini little "microsites" that give the writer a free web platform from which to:

1) Voice an opinion

2) Teach a skill

3) Sell some stuff

4) Promote a cause

5) And just about anything else (that's G-rated, that is!)

I have not written nearly enough of these small "micro-sites" yet to be considered an expert by any shake of the stick.

But I've written enough of them to (drum roll...) actually do well enough to have won a neat contest Squidoo is hosting this summer called the Summer Sunshine Awards!

My last "lens" (A lens is the actual webpage the user creates, and the user is a "lensmaster.") was about Squidoo Tips for Newbies and I not only won $99 for my efforts, but I also helped an animal charity called Paws Animal Kingdom win $99 as well!

To tell you that I was really psyched is an understatement!

I am also really humbled and honored.

Sure, I sell stuff on Squidoo. But I also LEARN stuff - I learn from a bunch of other lensmasters who are sharing info (and also selling stuff) - and I've made some amazing connections with people from all over the globe as a result!

Not bad for a writer living in a remote little corner of northern New Hampshire!

So, if you have not checked out Squidoo, please go on over to my humble little Squidoo Guide and Tips lens and check it out - and feel free to grab a copy of your Free Squidoo Guide eBook while you're at it.

It's easy, and you may find yourself getting as hooked on it as I am!

Have fun

!

:) Kath

New Myrtle Beach Living & Life Section on my Fine Resort Vacation Website

Hi everyone!

If you have been keeping up with our Fine Resort Vacation site over the last few months, you'll notice that we have been adding pages about some more adventures!

As some of you know, we have spent the last 2 winters in the Myrtle Beach, SC area (North Myrtle Beach for the winter of 2008-2009, and Myrtle Beach for the winter of 2009-2010), and so are adding information that we have been gathering about Myrtle Beach Life & Living as well! And, we'll be adding more as time goes on!

Even though we are "snowbirds" in the Myrtle Beach area (at least for now!), there are several great vacation resorts in the area through your GRN (Gold Crown) vacation membership. If we go back this coming winter (and it is looking likely... keeping our fingers crossed!), I am going to visit a few of the resorts in our membership and check them out.

Since I spend numerous months there, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to book a vacation right down the road :) but there isn't any reason I can't pop on over and take a photo or two, and give all of you my impressions (keeping in mind, however, that I won't be able to give you a TRUE 1-week experience run down).

Anyway, the information I add about Myrtle Beach Restaurants and shopping will come in handy to ANYONE who is either snowbirding or vacationing in that beautiful spot!

So, keep your eyes open, and please let us know if you find great places that YOU would like us to add to the site as well!

VERY Cool Blog Following a Nesting Bald Eagle

Hi all,
I just wanted to let folks know about a really cool blog on blogger.com right now. A good friend of ours who works for Fish & Wildlife has a blog that is following a nesting Bald Eagle that is about to hatch a chick any moment now - or at least within the next couple of days.

Evidently, the Outdoor Channel is sponsoring a live web cam that looks down into the eagle's nest in Shepherdstown, WV. What a wonderful opportunity to see something like this live!

Steve's got a lot of folks following this live webcam, so when you click on the live cam, it may load slowly. If you can't get the live feed, you can click on the "still cam" link that updates the photo every 30 seconds or so.

Steve's blog is here at www.EagleCam.Blogspot.com - to see the live cam or the still cam, just scroll down his blog and you'll see the links in the right hand column, just above his photo.

How cool is that!

Page about Christa's Country Corner - the Famous Pineola NC Corner Store & Deli

Well, I know that we took our trip to Banner Elk, NC last May, and that it's a little late to be writing about the trip now. :) Honestly, I don't know where the time goes! I think some of it has to do that we're getting ready to sell our beloved and beautiful Randolph, NH home, and that has had us a bit preoccupied...

Anyway, better late than never! One part of our visit that truly stood out in our minds was our afternoon at Christa's Country Corner & Deli, on Route 181 in Pineola, NC (located at Mile Marker 312 off the Blue Ridge Parkway).

Christa's is a classic country store that is truly so much more than your typical tourist stop. You can see the pride that goes into everything Christa and her crew does. The store is so popular, and it doesn't take a visitor long to realize why.

We were greeted and treated so graciously (not only by Christa Poore, the owner, but also by able crew member Janine Hughes). The ambiance is perfect for a mountain gathering place. Warmly decorated, and full to the brim with unique gift and food items (as well as the more standard tourist items), the real draw for us was the FOOD! Oh wow... Southern Hospitality AND great food all in one place. Heavenly.

Rather than recount everything here in this blog, we invite you to read all about our afternoon visit here at our Fine Resort Vacation site. I think you'll soon know why we needed to write all about it. :) And, if you find yourself in Pineola, NC, we whole-heartedly recommend a visit to Christa's Country Corner!