Apparently I am the last to realize two things, 1 seasonal affective disorder gets worse as you get older and two, there is no profit in non profit.

As I am pulling out of the SAD station I am starting to build up a head of steam this spring, I have built another non profit [...]

I confess, I never knew that NECC held classes IN Methuen. I just never ran across that piece of information.   The lovely NECC Adult Community Education flyer that comes in the mail, only gets a cursory glance because it only makes me WANT to take classes in things I have never tried before.
I [...]

So many people have joined us via facebook I am kinda shocked. It is very flattering to hand out the Methuen Common card and have people say, yep I heard of that. There are enough events in Methuen to keep me quite busy during these long dark New England days; I shudder to think [...]

Methuen Common has a lot of new fans and readers and I want to thank them all. The number of Facebook readers has increased dramatically in the last few days.
Today someone asked why I posted one thing and not another. If it’s not on Methuen Common I don’t know about it. I don’t [...]

I am really sick of black ice. Here at the Common, black ice is the predominant color of winter – even on the sunniest of days the shadow of the house keeps the parking lot from melting.
But it looks like for the new year, we will have more folks sending in submissions without having [...]

Thanks ya’ll for sticking around. The Common’s popularity seems to be growing, but  it DOES help when I am out and about getting information or taking pictures. It’s taking less time to explain what I am doing,  as many folks are saying ‘yeah, I’ve seen that site.’    That kind makes my day – [...]

I confess I tried to lure a corporate sponsor yesterday. I did a mockup front page and everything. The internet is filled with sidebars ads, pop up ads and adwords just about everywhere and I am kinda sick of them. I will let the site go without box ads if i have to, [...]

Another case where I am too smart for my own good.  I skipped over all the  simple bells and whistles available for WordPress in order to get the site up and running.  But now that I am doubling back,  I found I have made more work for myself.
Added ‘permalinks’  to the URLs….and now the original [...]

The Common got its first unsolicited posting, that doesn’t sound like much, but it is. I spend a lot of time pestering people for event notices. Most of the time I get the data off flyers on bulletin boards or from another posting somewhere. To have someone send it out of the blue [...]

I have been working very hard to get folks to send in their events, but it’s an uphill battle. People will do it the first few times and then forget about it. I don’t mind, as long as folks don’t mind me tagging after them like a trench-coated Columbo…”just one more thing, if [...]