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Trish Anderson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Trish is an Australian writer of fiction, short and long, and non-fiction work. Her interests range from historical to current affairs with many a side trip through fantasy and horror. Her preferred area of work is fiction; especially speculative fiction where she can push the boundaries of accepted reality. Trish's publishing credits include a film study guide used in local high schools, prize-winning short stories and articles in online e-zines and a local community ... [More]
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- Three Great Opportunities to Shower Your Baby in Love
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Books and advice on childbirth and childraising are thick on the ground. One whisper of impending pregnancy and the parents-to-be are bombarded with well-meaning words from friends, relatives, complete strangers and expert authors. Now, it's my turn to pass on a little knowledge and a lot of fun.
- Veteran Sports
[Recreation-and-Sports] No, I'm not talking about war veterans, though at times, we probably feel like it. Sport veterans are the hot topic. Even if only because I'm feeling every ache and pain of competing in my first Grand Final in twenty years.
- Increasing Blog Traffic: A Beginner's Journey
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Figuring out how to go increase traffic to your blog when you're still learning how to blog can be baffling, but only at first. Sending out feelers here, there and everywhere will increase the flow of visitors your blogsite sees. This is one beginner's story...
- Selling Your Home- A Guide For The Uninitiated
[Home-Improvement] Selling your home should be easy. Where there's a home there's someone who wants to buy either to live in, rent out or to demolish and rebuild. This article offers up a few tips on how to improve your chances of selling your house quickly and for the price you want.
- Managing a kids' sporting team
[Recreation-and-Sports] Every sporting team needs a manager. Someone to run around doing the paperwork, liasing with members and passing along vital information. Be involved in your child's team by volunteering as the manager and you'll enjoy the season nearly as much as they do. Here's a few tips and ideas to consider for first time managers.
- Kids, Imagination and Sport
[Recreation-and-Sports] Most elite sports people know how to use their thought processes to help boost performance. Everyone else can do the same but turning their daydreams into positive visualizing. Positive thinking and the ability to map out in the head what we want to happen is a sure start to improving sporting outcomes.
- Kids Sport and the Importance of Hydration
[Recreation-and-Sports] Adults may know that they need to drink plenty of water when they are playing sport, but kids don't. The effects can be devastating and discouraging to say the least. Who wants to play sport when they know they've got to pay for it with a few hours of serious nausea afteward? Preventing heat exhaustion is the best way to combat illness.
- Have Fun With Your Children - Take Them To The Museum!
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] A trip to the museum is a great idea to keep your kids entertained during the holidays. There are all kinds of museums, plenty of activities and lots of ways to turn your fun day out into an adventure they'll remember...
- Give Your Powerpoint Punch With Great Images - 8 Steps To Preparing Your Images
[Business:Presentation] The very best PowerPoints make great use of images to add emphasis to the subject of the presentation and the points being made. These images need to be prepared and customised for use in a presentation before you open that PowerPoint file. The following 8 steps will help you add punch to your presentation.
- Effective Powerpoint Presentations - A Beginner's Guide
[Business:Presentation] Producing a good PowerPoint presentation can be easy as long as you keep it simple. The best presentations are sleek rather than gimmicky, simple and informative rather than over the top and overwhelming. This quickguide to producing an effective PowerPoint presentation will help you on your way to effective presentations...
- Starting Your Family History - A Beginner's Guide
[Home-and-Family] Starting your family's history is as easy as picking up the phone and calling your parents or grandparents. But there's only so much they can tell you before you need to start digging deeper. This quick guide family history research will get you on the path to genealogical heaven!
- Beginner's Quickguide to the Health Food Store
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] If you've never stepped foot inside a health food store before, you may find the array of products, labels and promises daunting. It doesn't have to be that different from any other store with a few quick notes to remember...
- Leaving A Comment - Five Tips When Commenting On Blogs & Articles
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Writing can be a lonely experience. Especially when the writer gets little feedback on work. Let a writer know there is an audience out there by leaving comments in article directories and blogs. But don't just say any old thing...
- Anosmia - So What Is It?
[Health-and-Fitness] Not being able to smell the world around you is a known communication disorder called anosmia and it is a much more common occurence than realised. Not much is known about it, even by people who live with it every day. So, what is anosmia?
- Loofah Your Way To Well-Being
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Did you know that you can help keep your body strong or improve its strength with a simple loofah brush? Regular loofahing improves the well-being of your skin, circulation, muscles, and joints. It doesn't cost much and it's something you can do yourself as a preventative treament or to aid in injury recovery. Read on and grab your loofah!
- Allergies - Homecare Help For Puffy Eyes & Itchy Skin
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Help yourself to avoid puffy eyes and itchy skin caused by allergies to skin products. Tips to ease itchy skin. Gentler products to try.
- Have Fun With Your Children - Take Them To The Art Gallery!
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Remember when you were a kid and how boring trips to the art gallery could be? Well, they aren't anymore and taking your kids out to look at art can be a fun new family tradition. It just takes some planning and choosing of the right gallery.
- Anosmia- The Invisible Disability
[Health-and-Fitness:Disability] Anosmia means the inability to smell - anything. One of the five human senses, smell shapes our world, gives depth to our lives, memories, the food we eat and the liquids we consume. Imagine the rich aroma of your favorite brand of coffee replaced by nothing but steam up your nose and a mug of dark brown bitter liquid. The sense of smell is also our early warning system when danger approaches. Millions of people navigate life in the dark because they are smell-blind...
- Planning A Simple Newsletter - 10 Tips To Get You Started
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Coming up with a great newsletter for your sporting club, community group or far-flung family members doesn't have to be difficult. A bit of planning, a few helpful tips to follow and you could be on your way to being editor and publisher of a popular and well-read mini-newspaper.
- Art In The Open. Public Art: What Is It And Do You Have Any In Your Town?
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Public Art has the possibility to attract visitors to your town, but does your town have public art? A few quick tips on what public art is, how to recognise it and how to locate it. Includes links on some of the more unusual public art in Australia.
- Having a Whale of a Time - in Sydney - Australia
[Travel-and-Leisure:Outdoors] Whale watching does not have to be an expensive or complicated addition to your holiday. Just choose the right season and head out to the coast - the Australian Eastern coast, that is. In the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, you can combine a touch of outdoorsy bush walking with a great view of whales migrating north, and migrating south again a few weeks later, if you're really keen! Best of all, it won't cost you much dollar-wise and you'll have a lots of fun!
- Breaking into Freelance Writing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Breaking into the world of freelance takes hard work and lots of stubborn persistence, but it can be done. With a whole lot of planning, buckets of commitment and a place to start, you too could be on the way to success!
- Keeping Records: Papertrails and Bibliographies
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] If you don't keep a record of your research nowadays, you're asking for trouble somewhere down the line. Someone, somewhere will want to know the source of the one bit of information you can't remember sourcing. Writers, like Dan Brown, are being taken to court where they are required to prove their research, sources and disprove plagiarism and copyright. Don't let yourself be caught out!
- Improve Your Fitness With A Simple Three Step Office Work Out Plan
[Health-and-Fitness] Improving your fitness doesn't have to be hard, expensive or produce buckets of sweat. Adjust this three step plan to your lifestyle and workplace, and walk your way to a better you!
- Romance from the American West: Raven Dove
[Book-Reviews:Romance] Western love epic from the American Southwest. Action, romance, tragedy and betrayal! Joanne Walpole gives us all that and more!
- Occupational Health, Safety & Risk Management for the Home
[Home-Improvement:Security] Occupational Health & Safety, Risk Management, Manual Handling - training that opens your eyes to family safety in and around the home. With the majority of accidents happening at home, the safety of yourself and your family is paramount. Raising awareness of a few simple techniques and strategies can save a life!
- Off the Beaten Track in Sydney
[Travel-and-Leisure] South of Sydney is a great travel adventure: hiking, wildlife, bush, beaches, clubs, pubs and restaurants, far away from the crowded city streets. Get a taste of Australia without hazarding the Outback and without the need to travel longer than an hour. Botany Bay, Cronulla and Royal National Park will show you a little of everything!
- Networking: How to Save a Starving Author Day
[Business:Networking] Learn how to save a starving author by helping them out with a bit of networking. New writers often plug away at their work alone for hours a day, not always conducive to making contacts. Offer your writer friend a break in the free publicity department by sharing knowledge: your contacts, their services and abilities.
- Imaginery Friends: Is your Child's Best Friend Invisible?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Imagine a strange world in which nearly everyone else is bigger than you. Imagine the uncertainty, wariness and fear this might cause; the boiling emotions and lack of understanding of the turmoil they cause. Imagine how you would feel with no suitable outlet for releasing the pressures of internal conflict, no safe sanctuary to learn the rules, no one to test them out on without getting in trouble. How would you cope with all this? With the help of an imaginary friend.
- Funeral Planning: Producing a Photographic Tribute
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Planning a funeral can be complicated and wrought with emotion. Anger, despair, depression, confusion combine into a turbulent cocktail in the mind through which some fairly important decisions need to be made. What type of funeral? Religious or non-religious? Which funeral director? Which cemetery? These are just a few of the considerations involved. Help ease some of the emotional strain with a photographic tribute.
- Exam Stress - How Planning can Help Lower Final Exam Stress Levels
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Feel yourself start to tremble every time you think of your final highschool exams? Sense of foreboding at what failing them might mean for the rest of your life? Planning and time-management can help you put exam time back into perspective and lessen the pressure in your last year of highschool.
- Free Life Coaching
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] No Cost Life and Career Planning
Planning a career is much like planning your life, in fact, is a major part of planning your life. Groundwork needs to be laid, foundations built, balance and flexibility to be layered in. You can start at any time of your life, there are no set rules or restrictions, and planning doesn't have to cost you anything. This is, after all, your life. Why pay someone else to set you on a better path?
- Six Strategies for a Good Day's Fishing: Largemouth Bass
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fishing] The beginner fisherman (or woman) will often ply the more experienced with questions on how to land a fish and why everyone else is on fire, and they are not. Some of us prefer to keep our ignorance of the basics hidden. So, with that in mind, I set about learning a few strategies on how to get a Largemouth Bass out of the water and into my catch bucket. Read what I've landed
- Networking 101 for Shy People
[Business:Networking] Networking is communicating, and communicating (face-to-face, written or via telephone) is vital to spread the word about your business. Yet, if you're a shy person, how do you go about surmounting this obstacle? How can you talk about yourself and your business, if your mind goes blank and you get the shakes just from thinking about meeting new people? It's not easy, but it can be done, and all it takes is a bit of imagination and a whole lot of bravery.
- Planning a Student Writing Assignment
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writing assignments are not the exclusive domain of English classes. Most subjects these days require a certain amount of writing in project work and examinations. Yet, if English is not one of your best subjects and you daydreamed your way through lectures on "how to write," and writing basics such as punctuation and grammar; what are you to do? A little planning, basic knowledge of structure and the patience to edit your work will help you improve and add a touch of polish to your assignments. Words that flow and are easier for the instructor to read will attract more interest and higher grades.
- Local Knowledge: Background and Historical Setting in Novels
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Setting for novels is of prime importance. Readers need to relate to the story and to relate they need to be able to visualise not only the characters, but also the background. To put your reader smack in the middle of a novel setting, the writer must thoroughly research locations and sites use in the novel. Internet and book research is good, physically visiting the setting is better. So put on your walking shoes and grab a camera and notebook, it's time to go exploring!
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