Barbara Burns - Journaling in the Digital Cyberspace

Websites change and evolve over time. My personal Blog has grown over the years - I think it's over 300 pages now.

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I am an artist: oil painter - watercolor painter - digital painter and a digital photographer. I sell my artwork online and in person from my studio.

I am a Technical Writer at my "Day Job" which requires a lot of clear, concise, targeted to the point writing. I am a writer of many things personal. I do not have a lot of personal time to devote to website design these days so I converted to WordPress Blogs - I can spend my time writing, not coding in Notepad.

For my personal blog here - it rambles from thought to thought to thought ... sometimes they are consecutive and sometimes they are not. Sometimes they bounce back & forth similar to a tennis ball. My blog is journaling ... journaling for me is to just freeform write - I try to go back and check the spelling but sometimes Miss Sugar Plum (my best friend and owner of my furniture, my home and me - 50 lbs of happy furry dog) needs my attention right that second so I do not get to finish - I just hit publish and take care of her - she LOVES to play!)

I have a lot of interests, I am eternally curious about most everything and I am usually always quite willing to share my opinion or several opinions with the world. The first time I became a published writer was during my high school years and though many have encouraged me to become a professional fiction author, I much prefer business writing for publication - it helps a vast majority of people make sense of equipment or software that makes a difference in their jobs and their lives.

I write fiction, poetry, blog articles and posts for me and to share with anyone interested in reading it. I have been journaling forever so becoming an online blogger was the next evolution of my personal writing. In college, Creative Writing, Business Writing, Composition 1 and 2 were subjects I enjoyed even though they had nothing to do with my AAS major of mainframe computer programming.

My daughter is a Realtor here in the Houston / Katy area so I do a bit of web design for her - nothing major at this time - she is a member of HAR and of course can be contacted via their website but she has 2 domains - I bought one for her and she decided she wanted a different name so both have the same information on them. I am in the process of converting her over to WordPress Blogs so she can update them herself once I teach her how to use WordPress. She is VERY busy so we have not had a chance to get together for her to learn yet.

Her websites are:
Your Realtor Bobbi Mattern and
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