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Renee Malove: Posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 5:34 PM
How many times have you heard those words over the years? Once upon a time, these words were used as the harbingers of bad news. A way for employers to separate their personal feelings for an employee from good business practices. Like firing anyone that got busted chatting on their cell phone during work hours. (Loudly. Right in front of their customers.) Or cutting ties with vendors they caught pushing the lines ofgood business too far. Perhaps it’s just me, but it seems like these words have stopped being a legitimate reason to do what’s best for your business and started being a convenient excuse for acting like souless, moral-less snakes. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012 12:31 PM
Need Blog Inspiration? Watch a Sundance Film.
Does anyone else feel like Hollywood’s getting too predictable? You have your typical stereotypes right across the board. The embodiment of various archetypes that pander to a certain audience. The bad guys die or go to jail. The good guys win.
The werewolves eat somebody. The hero gets the girl.
Honestly, after a while it all gets so predictable, it’s painfully boring.
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Ouch. Didn’t expect that one, did you? It’s sad, but true. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 6:41 PM
Apologies First. Time for a moment of humility people. Remember when I said you didn't have to be perfect? Logging onto my admin page this morning, I realized I was going to have to admit that I wasn't perfect either. Why? Because the very blog that was supposed to talk about not blogging (and announced that I was going to be taking a blogging break through the Easter holiday, for oh, so many reasons) didn’t post because of a technical blip. Oops. I could play like it wasn’t my fault, but the bottom line is I’ve been so overwhelmed lately that little things like this slip through the cracks. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Friday, March 23, 2012 4:53 PM
Bloggers, you know how it is when you write that perfect
blog post. The one that makes everything come together. The one that ties up
all of your funny little thoughts, adds a pretty blue bow and sends it out into
the world. It’s a beautiful moment. A fabulous moment. One you swear you’ll
never be able to get enough of.
So what do you do the day you realize that you’d rather kiss
a mosquito than sit down and write one more stinking blog?
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Burnout
Some of you may be noticing that it’s been a while since
this blog has been updated. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Monday, March 05, 2012 1:43 PM
 I know that many of my readers are small business owners themselves. Some have owned their own business since the very beginning. Others stumbled into self-employment as a way to pay the bills as job search after job search came back with nothing. Some of you are still searching. Some of you are scrambling to find enough contract work to pay the bills. Many, many of you are frustrated as the number of available jobs gets smaller, the responses to your resumes have become fewer, and the walls feel like they’re closing in. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 10:26 AM
 Today, right now, I have 285 friends on Facebook. Yep. That's it. 285. To some of you, that’s small potatoes. You hang out with 2,000+ people, and you like it that way. For others, 285 might be more people than they (willingly) speak to in their entire lifetime. Here’s the thing. The people on my friends list? I’d invite each and every one of them to sit at my kitchen table. Many of them, I already have. I know their families. I welcome them into mine every time I post a picture of my kids online. |
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Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:31 PM
 Who’s perfect? Raise your hands. Go ahead. Stretch them up high. Any takers? Probably not. And it’s way past time we learned to be okay with that. <--Nope. Not there yet. Starting This Morning Off Right Today’s adventures started, as so many do, withSingle Dad Laughing. If you haven’t met Dan and Noah yet, you need to. Dan did what so many of us wish we could do. Kicked misery to the curb and stepped out to do something so much better. |
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Renee malove: Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 12:40 PM
Have you met Erica Napoletano? If you haven’t, you should.
She’s the head redhead over at Redhead Writing, and while her work’s more NC17
than rated G at times she never fails to toss out some amazing gems of wit and wisdom.
And yes, usually a healthy dose of humility. Or something like that.
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Renee Malove: Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 5:41 PM
 Who hasn’t seen, heard or read Cinderella? We all know her story. The little cinder girl whose stepmother couldn’t stand her, the fairy godmother who saved her and the prince who loved her. Most of us sighed romantic little sighs, clasped our hands to our chests and, if you happened to catch the Drew Barrymore version “Ever After”, enjoyed watching her tormentors get the comeuppance they deserved.
In reality, however, I think Nora Roberts had it right. Cinderella was a wimp. Follow in her glass-plated footsteps and it doesn’t matter if a dream is a wish your heart makes or not. |
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Renee Malove: Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 2:31 PM
After summarily classifying pizza as a vegetable (which, by the way, makes me feel a whole lot better about the amount of it we eat over here) I didn’t think the new rules about school lunches could still surprise me. Apparently that’s what I get for thinking, because I waswrong. Changing school lunch rules is now being heralded as the magic cure for childhood obesity.
You have GOT to be kidding me.
Oh. Oh, now I get it.
I’m not going to start throwing stones at families struggling with childhood obesity. |
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