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Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

Weekend Workshop on the Basics of Nature Photography in Tel Aviv, Israel

PRESS RELEASE DATE: September 2002 SUBJECT: Join Professional Nature Photographers in Two Day Workshop VanFossen Productions, Lorelle and Brent VanFossen “Taking Your Camera on the Road” www.cameraontheroad.com lorelle@cameraontheroad.com Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel – “Most of the time you don’t know if you had a good time on your vacation until you get your […]

Personal Safety in the Outdoors and While Traveling Workshop in Tel Aviv

PRESS RELEASE DATE: September 2002 SUBJECT: Travel Safety is a Priority ESRA – English Speaking residents Association “Volunteering Together for the Community” PO Box 5816, Herzliya 46157 972-9-958-6932 Traveling Safe is a Priority Tel Aviv, Israel – New York, London, Prague, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, for most, these large city names fill them with ecstacy, […]

Books on Birds and Bird Photography

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The Photographic Sherlock Holmes – Playing Photo Detective

The moment is sublime. It is filled with all the thrills, spills, and chills of an action-packed adventure movie. You rush to the moment, your breath coming in gasps of anticipation as you tear open the package. As your eyes dilate with the adrenaline, you slide the contents out onto the table, ever so careful […]

Taking Your Camera on the Road website helps teachers teach

PRESS RELEASE DATE: June 2002 SUBJECT: The VanFossens Help Teachers Learn about Hares VanFossen Productions, Lorelle and Brent VanFossen “Taking Your Camera on the Road” www.cameraontheroad.com lorelle@cameraontheroad.com Tel Aviv, Israel Arkansas – Teaching isn’t limited to the classroom anymore. Some schools in the United States recognize this and work hard to provide their teachers with […]

Social Relationships and Connections: Support

This essay is based on Cheryl Richardson’s book, Life Makeovers, and various other resources, specifically The Center for Rural Studies at the University of Michigan. I encourage you to check out their Communications web pages for more helpful information on improving the quality of your life. We all need support. We all need to be […]

Social Connections Worksheet

The following is the form used to accompany the essay on Support and Sharing. Social Relationship Chart – PART I First, plan to spend at least 15 minutes on this part of the exercise, so set aside time. Then, take a blank piece of paper and draw a small circle in the middle of it […]

The Power of Choice

Summary of Life Makeover meeting May 9, 2002 Every step of the way, you are making choices. The smallest decision you make in your day may effect the outcome of the day and your life. Most of us have had one of those "near-miss" moments in our life where we just avoid stepping off the […]

Three Weeks After the Terror of September 11, 2001

It has been interesting to watch how people are handling the tragedy of September 11, 2001. I’m not in the United States, so I can only assume what it is like for those there. Here in Israel, it has been rather fascinating. From amid the horror and agony of watching the events of unnecessary terror […]

Terrorism Hits Home on 9-11

The world is different today. Not only is the landscape different in New York and Washington, DC, the world in general has completely changed today. My world changed today. Yesterday, a normal day, Naomi asked me if I knew where to get a deep fat fryer, the electric kind with a lid and filter to […]

Two Years Living in Israel – What Is It Like?

I’ve been so neglectful in writing just a simple letter. I’ve been working on three books now, in addition to the over 200 articles I wrote for our new web page last summer, and so my writing is work and not pleasure, though my work is my pleasure. Simple letter writing gets left behind on […]

The Writer-Photographer – Enhance Your Story with Photos

Telling a Story Words tell their own story. They bring forth rhyme and reason, color attitudes, and move people. Combining the power of the visual image with the verbal image can either enhance your story or overpower it. Finding that happy medium is the challenge facing every writer handed a story requiring photographs. Like words, […]

Teaching English – Can You Please Me?

Dr. Alex’s determination to learn English is amazing. He attacks it with a passion that delights and humbles me. I feel so insignificant against such concentration and determination. I am teaching both he and his wife English. Dr. Alex is a lyrical and wonderful storyteller. He explains that one of his hobbies is to write […]

Teaching English – The TOEFL Test and Things That Go Bump in the Night

When I think of people taking a test that qualifies them as an official speaker of English as a second language (or third, fourth, or sixteenth for that matter), I have an idea of what the test should be like. The person should be tested on their ability to function within society using English when […]

Lessons Learned from Dahni, The Eyeless Wonder Cat

Dahni had no eyes. Shhhh. He didn’t know it. And we didn’t tell him. They say that what a child didn’t know won’t hurt him. We decided not to tell Dahni that he had no eyes, and he didn’t seem to mind. He was our Eyeless Wonder Cat. When he arrived in our home in […]