Brummet's Conscious Blog

Wow what a hugely busy day. Garden harvests, weeding, dealing with the fur-kids, watering day, garbage day... whew! Between all this I've been in the office answering emails :) I love all the emails, though - I really do! So keep 'em coming :) -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today's Featured Guest: Isabella Michon Isabella Michon is the president and founder of ImMedia, Inc. An independent publicist and media consultant, she is a former TV and radio producer with 25 years publicity and promotion experience. She has worked with bestselling and award-winning authors including Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman, and Clive Barker. Isabella is most famous for her workshops and guest speaker abilities on how to promote books most effectively. Tune in live to the Publicity for Writers episode today at 10 AM (pacific) or access the free archive anytime of day. But if you do tune in live, drop in to the Conscious Discussions chat room where you can interact with other listeners and...

-- Radio Interviews -- Today - July 22nd : 5:30 PM (Eastern) / 2:30 PM (Pacific) Host Lillian Cauldwell will be interviewing Lillian Brummet on the Internet Voices Radio Station about the world of writing - Free live show; donations from archived shows aide charities for soup kitchens & migrate workers & disadvantage children. To access the archive simply click on the link for Lillian Cauldwell :) Tomorrow - July 23rd broadcast airing at 3:30 PM (Pacific) Poetic Monthly Radio , hosted by Martin D. White, has invited Lillian to join the show to discuss the world of poetry. Incidentally, Lillian is a columnist for the magazine, The Poetic Monthly: www.poeticmonthly.com This interview will also be archived and ready to listen to for free at your convenience. -- Drowning Prevention Week -- The 4th week of July has been traditionally the time of year when we honor Drowning Prevention Week around the globe - this year it falls on July 19-26. Common causes of drowning range fro...

-- Announcement -- I am excited to share the following recent media appearances with you: - Glenda Davis of the Roots and Branches book review blog has just produced a mini-review for our recently released e-book, Purple Snowflake Marketing, and of the revised edition of Towards Understanding (soon to be released), check it out at: http://rootsandbranches.webs.com/reviewsbyglenda.htm - Cherie Burbach of Working Writers & Bloggers has recently posted a fantastic interview with Lillian on her blog, check it out at: http://workingwritersandbloggers.com/2009/07/20/interview-lillian-brummet -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today's guest was unable to call in. Instead I went ahead with the topic of the day - preparing for emergencies. In this episode, I hope to provoke some thoughtful discussion on the types of emergencies & dangers that may exist in your region & with your lifestyle in mind. I also shared thoughts on placement, size and application of such preparadness k...

-- Prize Draw -- Congratulations to Nicole and Virginia - last week's prize draw winners! Announcing our new prize draw contest... Between July 20 - Ending on Aug 2nd , we are accepting entries for the following prizes: Two non-fiction books by Melissa Van Rossum: All You've Ever Known -&- Their Way Home -&- Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita Visits the Blue Ice Mountains -&- A copy of the rock music CD: Place in Time, by the band Grooveyard To enter the draw all you need to do is: Email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (remove spaces before sending) with the word "prize" in the subject line. Deadline will be Aug 2nd - noon (pacific) . Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca

Well the time has come again for me to fulfill my promise to my husband and take a few days from the office. I will occasionally check my email and will dropin on this blog once in a while over the next 3 days off. Thank you for your understanding in this regard. Feel free to scroll through the archived posts here in this blog if you have time, or head over to our main site - www.brummet.ca - where we have lots of information, resources, articles, book excerpts, etc... -- Quote of the Day -- “When I had to do my PhD I knew I had to pick an organism to study, I liked hanging out on streams so I started thinking about the animals that live on or near streams… Frogs have more personality, and I realized that frogs were rapidly disappearing and no one seemed to know why – so it was the conservation issue that appealed to me. So then I started looking for who around the world was working with frogs. …I wanted to start Save the Frogs because what I noticed about being a scientist is that sc...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Helping a child ends generations of illness; past, present and future. Help a child today, including the one within yourself ." ~Dean Balderston -- Recommended Eco-Resource -- Refuse-Reduce-Reuse Blog: This is a wonderful place to learn about green living, check it out at: http://refusereducereuse.blogspot.com -- Authors Read -- Today's featured author queried us by saying: “ You've seen the ads where two people are at a lake and one person is drowning and the other is standing on the shore and the caption is, 'Would you just stand there and let someone you know drown ?' …If you don't know how to swim and don't have any idea as to how to help, what do you do? That's what it's like for thousands of children who are either being abused themselves or discover that a friend is being abused ." Dean is a licensed Mental Health Practitioner since 2006 and has written a wonderful book addressing this issue titled: "...

-- Quote of the Day -- " Words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word ." ~ Franz Kafka -- Recommended Eco-Resource -- http://standforless.com/blog I heard of this blog through the San Diego Zero Waste Group & just visited it this morning. I was pleased to see a few mover's & shakers in the eco-world that I recognize & was pleased to see that they are being acknowledged for their incredible work. Check out the blog when you have time to find articles on interesting topics! -- Chatter -- Ah... I reach a little break in the office after pulling 8-12 hour days in the office for a few weeks straight now, with only two afternoons & one morning off. The rush of preparing & registering August's featured guest episodes on our two radio shows is over, & the Brummet's Monthly newsletter is just about ready to send out...