I just got an email from Kyle telling me that one of my posts got indexed on Google. However, there's something strange about that indexing. What got indexed was our "About Us" page.That piece was just a self-disclosure thing. It was not "packaged" for SEO. So, I asked myself, why was it indexed? There were no keywords, no links, no nothing, just a straight-from-the-shoulder statement of who we are and why we're doing what we're doing.Was it because it was honest? Was it because it has no

At dinner, they all laughed when I said, “I hate it so much I love it.” But, when I told them about what I meant, they looked at me with a mixture of misunderstanding and knowledge. This response I knew to be an affirmation of what I just told them. For, at one time or another, they too had the same experience, as I know that you too had. What is this experience? Let me tell you. As I was tweaking the contents of my website yesterday, things got a bit tough with Word Press. An

Avoid Paraphrase? Twice my content had been flagged as "not original." As far as I know I did not copy. What is going on? This got me to thinking. Has this got to do with that other blog I wrote many years ago at blogger? It was not even a money blog. It was a family blog. I set it up to connect with famiy back home. It was before Facebook. So, I visited it again. Truth to tell, I had forgotten about it. I check the contents. There's no connection to my recent arcticles. It was not about ni

The dark side of passion The popular definition of passion does not include the darker side of passion such as, an all-consuming desire for revenge, or anger, hatred, or lust. Or, maybe even an obsessive desire directed toward someone, which incidentally was the common understanding of passion before positive psychologists decided to play around with the definition. For our purposes, let us limit our talk to the positive side of passion. So now, passion includes something we d