A Yoga Coffee Outlook

WE HAVE MOVED

This is the old site. If like reading A Yoga Coffee Outlook.. Please make sure you bookmark www.yogacoffeeoutlook.com . The new site is updated now.

If you use this URL in your links, favorite it in technorati and del.icio.us you should'nt lose me again.

I need a time out.

Although I made the decision this past Tuesday, I needed to live with it for a couple days to make sure it was really what I wanted.

Doing a podcast is quite a lot of work. Ask anyone who's done it. With a few wonderful exceptions, it's fairly thankless work. In order to do it week in and week out you really must love doing it.

First I want to express my overwhelming gratitude.

To those readers here of A Yoga Coffee Outlook, thanks for all of the comments, email, skype chats, and phone calls. It's frightening and often embarrassing to write when things are not going well. You guys have been keeping me going in so many ways and feel a lot like family to me.

Listeners of the podcast, you guys really hung in there. Somehow we even increased the numbers to nearly 1000 listeners over the last two weeks. Chas and Elizabeth were willing to take on a bigger role... and barely got their feet wet. Liz and Ricardo gave up their free time and some good stories to help me keep the show alive. All proof that even strangers with different view points can sit down for an hour and share bits of their lives with each other. Which was the true spirit of the show.

The Podcasting community is such strong and supportive group of great people. Ray Iddings of Pink's Radio and Paulie B of Punky Radio both stepped up to be on the show. Geoff from the On Hold Podcast not only offered to be a guest host but has been a sympathetic ear and supporter of the show from day one. There are many others, too numerous to mention, who offered to hang out with me for a show or two. Even Bob Gentry who is likely the busiest guy on the Sunset Strip these days offered.

Everyones generosity in regards to the show forced me to evaluate the situation intensely. I'd feel terrible if after everyones efforts I still felt the way I do now... With Bobby's departure from the show, I don't love doing it anymore. I don't have it in me anymore. Every time I put the ridiculous headphones on I get into this battle with myself and it's just too difficult to do. So I will no longer be doing shows.

Clearly I need a blog break as well. So AYCO will go dark until November 16th... Coincidentally thats when the I-Pod contest is over. I'm not going into seclusion, I just won't be publicly posting. I will still be answering my e-mail and checking comments... Just no new posts. The podcast will cease to be available after November.

Thanks once more to everyone. I hope I haven't let anyone down.

Blog Writing

Be sure to vote for Bob Gentry...

While Kelly is away, I’m here to entertain you.  Instead of the usual post from Kelly, I am going to expand on a conversation she and I had. No, it’s not about our personal lives, although I have a great story about Mr. Octopus—a guy I met a couple of weeks ago now. I will have to save that for later. Today I want to talk about blogs and professional writing. I truly took offense to a statement that blogs aren’t professional writing. I think there are lots of bloggers out there who would agree with me.

Believe it or not, you can get paid to blog—no not by putting ads on your site. There are groups and companies who will pay someone to write a blog about a certan topic or products. In my research, I even found added support for what I’m telling you here. And it’s not recent. It’s an article by Meg Hourihan (one of the founders of Blogger). You might ask where I found an abundance of articles on blogs…at the Purdue University website for English 515:  Advanced Professional Writing. The class had to blog as part of their grade. So although many of us blog just for enjoyment, it’s not just hurling whatever comes to mind onto your blog. Even those bloggers who appear to do this aren’t.

Here’s a quote from Meg:  “Blog posts are short, informal, sometimes controversial, and sometimes deeply personal, no matter what topic they approach. They can be characterized by their conversational tone and unlike a more formal essay or speech, a blog post is often an opening to a discussion, rather than a full-fledged argument already arrived at.” 

I liked this quiote and happen to agree, but it doesn't mean that blogs aren't professional writing. Developing your voice is an important part of being a writer.

Liz

Busy Rebounding

*** REMINDER ***

BOB GENTRY is getting very close to the final round at StarTomorrow.com. Please don't forget to click the link above and vote for my friend Bob. He is working day and night to keep people updated and in the loop so they don't forget to go back and vote in every round. He appreciates all of the support. Be sure to stop in at his blog too, just to say hey and let him know he's got your support.

Okay... back to rebounding. I will be out of town until Saturday. I've asked a couple of very capable women to watch the place while I'm gone. Be nice to them. Leave lotsa comments and check out their blogs too.

Seriously NSFW

This is the funniest thing.... I have ever... I mean EVER seen...

EVER

Let It Snow

This photograph was taken a little over 10 years ago in Keystone, Colorado. My roommate woke me up at 2AM to tell me that it had snowed and there was about 6 inches outside. We went outside to play. Living in a ski town, being a pro/am skier there was cause for celebration.

I spent the previous summer rehabilitating my reconstructed knee. Dryland training and physical therapy is how I spent 8-10 hours everyday. In my lifetime, never before and never again will I be in the strong physical condition that I was in when this photo was taken.

Wanted: Human Sacrifice

Today I checked the evites for my Halloween soiree and I got a decline from a girl I played tennis with this summer.

It reads:

Kelly, Thanks for the invite. For religious reasons I do not celebrate Halloween. I appreciate being included. I hope you won't take this personally, but human sacrifice and other Halloween traditions should be feared not celebrated.

Wha?

Do you think I should have let everyone know that I could not find anyone to volunteer for human sacrifice? If only we had a guest worker program in this country. Then there would be people to do the jobs that Americans won't take.

Seriously... I had no intention of killing anyone at my party.

Moxxie Denver! It's Here.

I was super excited to see that Denver is now listed on the Moxxie site. If you missed my earlier announcement, I'll forgive you and say it again. I am now a contributing writer for Moxxie.com in Denver.

You can follow this link to sign up for Denver Moxxie and receive my articles by e-mail. You really should and I hope you will. I should mention that my first article might be about a Brazilian wax. Maybe it might.