Help Keep this Weblog Alive ... Donate!


I have added a PayPal feature to enable people who want to keep this blog alive to donate toward my expenses and enable me to have more time to write. So if you like what you see here, please show your appreciation by donating whatever amount you feel is appropriate. Look for link underneath the "About Me" section to the right. Contribute $25 or more and receive an 8x10 high quality digital print of your choice of one of my photographs or art prints.

It's been over a month since I started this weblog, and I've been having a grand time with it. In fact, the more I do it, the more I want to do it. But it can be extremely time-consuming, especially those entries that involve reflecting on large issues and/or incorporating information from other websites or other resources that I think my readers would find useful or enlightening. Also, there are some costs associated with maintenance, including keeping up my .Mac subscription. I would like to devote a great deal more time to this weblog, to make it even more useful, by more thoroughly covering the topics I have already established, and possibly adding more. But every minute I spend on this is a minute taken away from other things I could be doing to earn my living. So I have added a PayPal feature that will enable people to easily (and securely) donate whatever amount they deem appropriate. (Disclaimer: A small portion -- about 3% -- of whatever you pay goes to PayPal in order to pay for the service. And if you do not already have a PayPal account, you will have to create one -- but you will be able to use that account for other online shopping as well.)

Look for link underneath the "About Me" section to the right.

As the readership (and, I hope, the donations) for this weblog builds, I will increase the amount of time I spend on it and will go into more issues in more depth.

Donate $25 or more and you will receive an 8x10 high quality digital print of a photograph or art print of your choice as seen here. More will be added later, so if you don't see anything you like right away, check back another time.

If you don't have $25 right now but still want to receive a print, donate what you can & send me an e-mail indicating your intent to donate more. You can still qualify to receive a print if your full donation of $25 is received within six months. (Your print will be sent after the full $25 is received.)

If you don't wish to use the PayPal feature, send me an e-mail using the feedback link at the bottom of each entry indicating your intention, and I will send you information on how to mail your donation.

To designate your selection, send me an e-mail using the feedback link at the bottom of each entry. Include the title of the image you want and include the URL where you found it (copy the URL from your browser window and paste it into your e-mail).

You can also designate your selection from the image pages by doing the following (copy and paste these instructions into your notepad or other file for easy reference):

1) go to this link
2) Select "Art for Sale" or "Photos for Sale"
3) Select "Start Slide Show" (upper right corner)


4) Select image you want (use arrows in the lower right corner)
5) Click on "Send Me a Message" (lower right corner)




6) That will get you to a page that looks like this:




7) In the message box, put in the following information:

Send me this one.

Your full name
Your street address
Your City, State, Zip (or appropriate country information)

8) Please be sure to include your e-mail address for acknowledgment, and so I can remind you to send any necessary address information that you might have forgotten.

BTW, I WILL NEVER sell or provide your e-mail address to anyone without your permission.

Posted: Tue - March 23, 2004 at 09:24 AM          

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