Postcards from the Funny Farm

This is the biggest news this month at the Farm!
Here’s a last reach-out to readers at the Funny Farm. The Amazing Visions Writing contest deadline has been extended to late June! Get your blog post up in the next few days and link it here to win the great linkage and graphics prizes = MORE TRAFFIC FOR YOU!!! Read all the prize details here. I’m so looking forward to reading your entries! Those who have entered already, thank you … I will be linking a bunch to your posts very soon.

By the way, if you have a friend who loves to write on their blog, you can email them this post and get them in post haste. Use the “Send to a friend” link at the footer of this post or simply click here. The prize may not be an xbox 360, but with the links you get you’ll be able to afford 10 of them!

The following Blogs are especially encouraged to enter (but not limited to!):

• Be Playful
• Beyond the Rhetoric
• Change Therapy
• Confident Writing
• Courts Internet Marketing School
• Damien at the Speed of Life
• Derek Semmler dot com
• Dynamite Lesson Plan
• Growing Happiness
• It Might Be Love
• katelynjane.wordpress.com
• Life is RANTastic!
• Lives Less Ordinary
• Lorelle on WordPress
• MS.CAESI
• My Interesting Files
• Neurophilosophy
• Niche Marketing - Andy Beard
• Pop Culture Dish, Presented by Malcolm
• The Man Page
• The Outboard Brain Of A Geek
• This Eclectic Life
• Tumbled Words
• Tyler Ingram Dot Com
• WebGrrrl.net

Best!

-Damien ;)

I think for years I have heard that it’s better to not hang on to material things, or anger, or resentment, or a lot of things.  I think that is a Judeo-Christian ethic and like many Americans, that’s how I was raised.  The funny thing is, I am not good at it.  When someone runs me off the road I want to take their bumper out … when my wife tells me I am wrong, I want to get out charts and prove to her and anyone watching (ie; the chairs) that I am indeed right!  This is toxic thinking.  Through the past couple years being a dad, husband, teacher, dreamer, I have been venturing out into this new realm of letting things go.  As I said in a previous announcement, I am limited in my time to blog for the next couple weeks.  I am sure in the next week I’ll get a mocha and really relate some of the amazing stuff that is happening to me, but for today I give you simply this direction to dream about and make your own connection with.  I have my own methods I have developed and will discuss in a future post, but for now what are some ways you can actively let things go?

What a week! I had five articles published outside my blog! Most were guestblogs (which I hold in very high respect, thanks to all who hosted me last week). As my friends know, this is a serious goal for me right now. In between all that, and having a family of 5 and a full time job as a teacher, the jeep attacked a lot of rock mountains on the weekly Blog Safari. I dug into Blog Catalog discussions more than I ever have (see sidebar widget). Also, I started back into 9Rules which is amazing. Between that and my regular RSS reads, I found some amazing stuff and I’ll serve it up to you here. If you have an article you’d like to see featured here some week, please drop me a line and I will check it out. As always, the articles below all received a well-deserved Stumble. Enjoy the Safari this week!

Hand holding is so… yesterday
A short but great article about how a simple touch and a bit of extra effort can improve your love life and your sex life.

Lord Likely has Some Trouble with The Brown Mist
Speaking of sex, Lord Likely is at it again. His ridiculous shenanigans get him into all kinds of laugh-a-minute situations. Read this post and may it be the one that hooks you on this very entertaining columnist.

Fuelmyblog and other social networking sites, Walking the Stacks
I really like this blog. He’s written about stuff I am currently doing a series on: social networkin.... Check out this cool article and learn as I did from it.

Twitter: what are you doing right now?
I found Tyme’s blog through 9Rules. It’s a great piece of writing. I often wonder why the hell I am on Twitter. Is it ridiculous? Read her article and see what you think.

Got Traffic Blues? Remember Balance
Kimberly is my newest sponsor here at Postcards from the Funny Farm. I will be doing a full review of her site this month as well and linking her to you where I think her services can help. Watch for that, it will be valuable to your piggy bank. This article is an example of the kind of patient and yet effective money coach she is to people who want to make money online. She shows the many ways to make it: not just through ads or clicking. I endorse her stuff heartily. Go check it out, I think you will be both surprised and impressed.

Reaching Your Goals
My main man Derek wrote a great little post on reaching goals. This is like a staple to any form of success in my life. Derek is also one of my ads featured in the right hand upper area of the fold. As a side note, through using principles he has virtually learned through trial and error and through mentors, Derek manages to bring in a sizable chuck of change every month through blogging. Check out what he has to say about goals.

38 TV Themes Recorded by the Actors Themselves
Malcolm … I need to high five you for this one!!! Folks, go look at the pictures and imagine the songs he lists in this post. Creative, hard work, labor of love went into this post … that is undeniable. This is another must for every blogroll.

Scared Silly by the Faeries
My writing and academic colleague 1/2 way across the world in Scotland wrote an entry for Shelly Tucker’s contest (which I happen to be judging). This is a great story and it really gives you an idea what Shelly is looking for in the contest. I am the judge. How did I attain this lofty position you ask? Good God I have no freakin’ idea. Maybe it’s because I never write “sex” or “freagin” in my posts ;) Seriously though, if you have a scary story and a blog go to her details post through the button below and get your post done before the submission deadline!

Tiny Url: rurl.org/kpm

BoozeCruise
Jessica the Rock Chick is one of the coolest people I know. She is able to admit when her angelic guitar player from Bon Jovi make s a huge boo boo. Get a fans rant at this post. Also, I just want to say as I have in the past that you really need to be reading Jessica’s blog, it makes me a cooler person (and God knows I have miles to go there).

Things I’m Learning from Blogging
The master .. mistress? well … Shelly anyway :) This lady has been a reader of mine for a long time and we have sort of a reciprocal love of storytelling. One of these days I’ll get to see her live (she does it for a living!) Suffice it to say, if this lady has a post about blogging and what she is learning, boy I’ll tell ya what … I’m there ;)

Easily Organize Post Categories
Katy is a very astute, prolific blogger who offers very practical and helpful information to her readers regarding blogging. This is one of those posts! I would add that “Batch Categories” is another very helpful and easy to use plugin to add to the one she lists in her article.