PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Five Things You Didn't Know About Me ...by Paula Neal Mooney 1 - Oprah touched me and talked to me. I went to a taping of her show about dating in the 80s. Oprah shook my hand afterward, and during the show she teased my friend and I for moving our seats down front. "Y'all tryin' to get some dates!" Oprah teased. 2 - I slept with a staple in my finger all night when I was a little girl. My mom found it and freaked out and thank goodness I didn't get lockjaw. 3 - I tried to pledge Delta Sigma Theta in college but they rejected me. I was all prepared for the crazy questions they asked my friend who pledged, but during my interview their den mother was there so it was pretty tame and I was pretty lame. Someone told me they usually select darker-skinned girls; others say this is untrue. Still, I should've pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha... 4 - There's a tiny "hereditary hole" at the top of each of my ears, appendages that I can wiggle... 5 - I declared...

Nobody Loves Me, Nobody Tagged Me For Five Things... by Paula Neal Mooney So there's this game called "Five Things" floating around the blogosphere. The gist of "Five Things" is that bloggers tag their blogging friends to reveal "Five Things You May Not Know About Me" on their blogs. I've been reading about all these folks getting tagged by their cyber-buddies to play "Five Things" while waiting like the gangly, clumsy kid I was in this pic on July 31, 1975, in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (thank you in heaven, Mommy, for writing detailed and intriguing descriptions on the back of our photos). I feel like the 6-year-old I was, waiting for some super-athlete to choose me for his team in grade school. Five Things is growing and growing, as a quick peek into Google blog search has revealed. Loek Bakker "tagged" Joe McKendrick , whose fellow ZDNet bloggers Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley also played Five Things ....

Ten Ways to Blog Faster by Paula Neal Mooney Content creation is everything. Create more pages with new and varied content, and the bucks are sure to follow. But content creation costs both time and money. So how do you keep cranking out the quality stuff without sacrificing your marriage and parenting or whatever else? Here are ten ways to blog faster, and therefore inevitably earn more money and authority as a blogger in the long run: (1) Stop Hunting and Pecking - If I could find my old Kenwood Academy High School teacher, John Tilgner, I would plant a big fat kiss on that forehead. He got a lot of guff from the students in my class (as you can imagine a man like him would teaching in a school that was about 80% black) because he taught us to type with fingers on the home room and without looking, except for the numbers. "You'll know when you make a mistake," Mr. Tilgner (pictured below, so I figured I'd better include my bad yearbook pic below, too) would tell ...