Turner's Perspective

OZ’S VOICE: Do not arouse the wrath of the Great and Powerful Oz! I said — come back tomorrow! I bought my first house in 1984 when I was 22 years old. It was in Speedway, IN. I do not remember much about the detail of the transaction, but I do remember sifting through the classifieds of the news...

Here are the first three comments from the post I put up last night at BloodhoundBlog.com... Broker Bryant January 28th, 2007 8:23 am  Love the post Jeff, It’s the intangibles that I bring to a transaction that are valuable. Solving problems and keeping folks focused on the end result is what I d...

Yesterday I posted an ActiveRain Crossword Puzzle.Today I'm hosting The ActiveRain Word Search.Why am I doing this?Because casual games are sticky. And whether you know it right now or not, you want sticky. You want people to come back to your site over and over, even when they aren't looking for...

I couldn't resist. We started the day with Aloha Shirt Friday and, well, that just put me in a really good mood. Even better than the really good mood I was already in. So, I thought I'd start something new: Come on! It's a game! It's online. What more do you really need to know. To the left is a...

This is a thank you post to everyone at ActiveRain.On November 28th, not yet two months ago, as a Newbie here on ActiveRain, I wrote my first post. It wasn't until this post 9 days later, "Make It Personal: There's No Template To Follow," with Broker Bryant as my muse, that I really started to un...

For my money, whether you're a child or an adult, one of the best ways to spend a day is at The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.I recently took my children for the day and I was as mesmerized by the displays as I was by their reaction to them. While the stuffed animals, bones and sta...

I'm thrilled with the response so far. Thank you!So many of you responded favorably to the notion that the ActiveRain cyber-community is uniquely suited to becoming a resource for helping real estate agents impact the cyle of poverty in their local communities, places they can see and touch. (If ...

The pile of books on the table next to us was hard to miss from my vantage point. It wasn't because of the size of the piles - she easily had more than a dozen books stacked in various configurations - or the tangle they created around her laptop computer. It was because of the titles.  Evocative...

After 45 years of life experience, I've come to the conclusion that the single greatest source of wisdom in the universe is the refrigerator door.My first experience with this came on my Mammaw's refrigerator door in Grafton, West Virginia. To this day I can remember her hand written note. It was...

A new local blog search engine debuted yesterday, January 1, 2007,  and I felt it should be noted here on ActiveRain. Placeblogger.com is focused on being a search engine for "hyperlocal sites," not unlike the neighborhood oriented content blogs that many of our members "other blogs" desire to fo...