My Least Popular Lenses - and Lessons I've Learned From Making Them

All about video blogging for beginners! I'm Linda, a seasoned blogger. I'm learning to set up video blogging for some of my blogging projects. As I learn to do it I'll add information to this lens. Eventually this may become an expert video blogger...

It is magical. You put up your tent, crawl in, and experience life from the inside of a new fabric-enclosed space created just for you. You arrange your things, lay back on your air mattress or cot, and look at the ceiling. A sigh of exhilarated rela...

This is an annual FREE conference offering a huge variety of online workshops and chats for an entire week in October. The 2008 conference was a wonderful success. If you missed the opportunity to attend this conference, keep next year's conference...

This tutorial shows how to set up a subscription service so your Squidoo lens visitors can receive your SquidCasts in email. If you're not a member of Squidoo yet, please join. Subscribe to get notifications of my lens updates by email. Note: This...

I recently finished reading a long and interesting lens - and was inspired to tell the writer how much I enjoyed her work. But to my dismay, there was no guestbook. No contact link either. I was so disappointed that I couldn't network with the autho...

A good old fashioned bicycle will get you around town. So why pay a high price for gas? On a bike you can feel the wind in your face, say hello to your neighbors, and enjoy the sunshine. You can also get great exercise and develop the body you've be...

Most people don't expect to be forced from their home by disaster, but it can happen. By then it is too late to prepare. In July 2007 a forest fire broke out less than a mile from my home, and I had to get ready to leave in case the fire came my way...

There's a new winter holiday. It's called the Festival of the Inner Light. Come along on a new adventure -- a winter-long holiday of spiritual and creative growth. I'm looking forward to the 2009 winter holiday season... and another three mo...

These are my least popular Squidoo lenses. Either they are terrible topics, or I haven't given them enough loving attention. Either way, I haven't given up on them. At the very least, this lens will serve to keep me aware of the lenses that need to...

Creative alchemy is creative change. It involves your willingness to grow beyond your present boundaries and become a more versatile, daring artist in whatever medium you work with. You can experience creative alchemy in graphic arts, writing, music...

We're all made of energy. Learning to work with that energy promotes health and well-being in our lives and the lives of others. Geniyyah Consciousness Research provides information on manifesting, visions, energy exercises, and divination. I wr...

Mountain music is laid-back, country-style creative joy-making. Add your instinctual capacity for rhythm and tone, and your family can make the most harmonious music in town. Whether you live in the city or the country, welcome the sounds of genuine...

You have to do it. You have to let people know about your lenses - but HOW? One of the best ways is to network with other Squidoo lensmasters on Squidoo message board forums. There you'll meet lots of other lensmasters who have been where you are now...

Since I read and write a lot, many of my lenses are about books and the skills it takes to write them. This lens lists my literary arts lenses. This is a supplement to my regular lensography - created because I know I'll be writing dozens of literar...

Linda Jo Martin, author of The Scribe of Irohila, The Seagull Rebellion, The Alyssa Project, and other novels, lives in Northern California in the Klamath National Forest.

I love to keep track of my progress with diary entries. I'm hoping for an exciting year with lots of Squidoo growth, so I'm planning to make good use of this diary lens. In case you missed it - part one of this diary is here: LindaJM's...

It took some time for me to warm up to the idea. I'm usually so busy, I don't have time to investigate new sites on the web. I have blogs to maintain, a job to attend to, and a family. Plus at first Squidoo didn't seem like something I w...

This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch. Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun...

A guru is a spiritual teacher with advanced knowledge and wisdom, gained through meditation. The word guru comes from two Sanskrit words: gu means darkness, and ru means light. A guru is an enlightened teacher who brings spiritual light to dark minds...

I live near the Klamath River in the center of the Klamath National Forest in Northern California. There's a local legend of a serpent that lives in the river. Some natives here claim to have seen it. There are also numerous Bigfoot sightings. Many...

Blogging has evolved to new standards of professionalism, and we must evolve to meet the challenge of competing with the best. I've been blogging since 2001. I've studied the experts extensively and have lots of information and links to share with yo...

Besides building and writing your own lenses, the most important thing you can do on this site is to visit other people's lenses. What you do there will make a big difference to everyone involved. If we as a huge Squidoo community can band together t...

This lens is a collection of links to websites owned by writers. They are organized according to the style of web design used and site elements included. This lens is a teaching tool intended for use by participants in my workshop for writers, Crea...

Everyone loves a holiday. Americans are the same. We have our traditional holidays that mean a lot to us. We have other holidays that were imposed by the government. This lens features all the United States holidays, and tells how they came to be.

They grow, we nurture them, and watch them fly off. Suddenly our nests are empty, our children are gone - off to make their fortunes in the world. What ever will we do with ourselves? How will we cope? When the family home empties parents often star...

This lens features predictions for the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. More years will be added when predictions become available. The Crystal Ball, 1902 by John William Waterhouse Buy at AllPosters.com

To this day I remember buying my first Beatles album. I was twelve that year and motivated by peer pressure to start a collection. I'd seen the Beatles on Ed Sullivan's TV show - my entire family watched both performances, enraptured. My father said...

I'm sure everyone knows about dowsing done with rods to find underground water resources. Dowsing can be much more than that, and can make a positive difference in our lives. I've learned a type of dowsing that goes beyond just reading bio...

There is as much controversy about whether Lao Tse existed as there is about whether Jesus existed. Maybe more. According to tradition, Lao Tse was a great philosopher who lived about 400 BC. He is the author of the Tao Te Ching.!

The opening words to the movie set the mood and tell us the most important thing about this story: "Listen. The music. Can you hear it? I can hear it everywhere. In the wind. In the air. In the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open y...

The Secret of the Andes is a classic of children's literature. The Secret of the Andes won the Newbery Medal in 1953. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark is a short, culturally rich novel about the life of a young boy who lived in the Andes Mount...

There isn't much on the web about Mary Summer Rain. She apparently loves her privacy and doesn't maintain her own website. Therefore the best way to learn about her is through reading her books. This painting of Mary Summer Rain was done by Carole B...

The Future is Yours - Do Something About It! is the title of a book by Raymon Grace, an energy dowser. He combines dowsing with years of spiritual training to clear negative energies and create positive ones, bringing health and well-being into the l...

Benjamin Franklin was a vegetarian. In his own words: "When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book, written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it. My Brother being yet unmarried, did not keep House,...

What a writer needs is inspiration, and these books will give it to you. You'll find the power to go on, motivation to meet your goals, ideas for streamlining your writing process, suggestions for bringing your characters to life, exercises to improv...

The Tao Te Ching contains the rational basis for human activities, so it provides outstanding guidance for keyword selection and search engine optimization.