I recently renewed my membership with the Association of Women Communicationsand am psyched to be back surrounding by such creative, supportive folks in their Freelance Austin group.

Summer Stroll

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Summer stampede stalls to a stroll

Ah, there's that sweet summer smell of latex.

Did you know that when Edgar Ellington invented water balloons he was trying to solve ‘trench foot’, a disability that many soldiers acquired during WWI and WWII? And here’s what today’s people did with that invention.

Kickstarter’s concept of funding creative projects for artists, musicians, filmmakers and designers is brilliant. Here’s another great concept designed for writers. Writers pitch ideas, and readers vote on whether it should be published.