Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Getting the Blog Rolling

I initiated this blog in 2005 when "HOLY MOL-EE! 2005" first came out for my customers to use, but I never linked it up properly. I actually designed a privately hosted blog, which would have been accessible only with a password, but that never got connected either. Here we are 4 years later and the blog still hasn't been connected! What is true is that the making of HOLY MOL-EE! cost many tens of thousands of dollars -- and add to that the money I wasted with various "groups" who were going to "help me with my business," money I foolishly "invested" with people who intentionally lied to me and ran away with my money, and money I gave or loaned to friends out of generosity -- and I found myself deeply in debt, so I chose to postpone active work on my business to work myself out of debt by teaching full time. Don't ever let anyone tell you that teaching is easy, light work. It is not. I found it totally consuming of my time, talents and energies to the point that I can relate to the concept of "the old maid school teacher." When I am teaching, there is simply no time for anything else. Now that may not be true for all teachers, but it certainly seems to be true for me, especially my first year at any school. So while teaching there was essentially no time to work on my business.

Nevertheless, as I taught, I used HOLY MOL-EE! in my own classroom and created more lessons using the same principles of learning, while continuing to refine my techniques. Now I am actively pursuing my business again, even though my debt is still only half paid. My belief is that HOLY MOL-EE! and the additional materials I have developed are of great value to both teachers and students. All I have to do is "get them out there" at a price that people can afford. The full "HOLY MOL-EE! 2005" package in its present form is definitely worth every penny, but it is priced too high for most teachers and even schools to purchase. My intention is to create a number of single lessons which can be downloaded for a much smaller price to meet the needs of teachers, students and home schoolers.

So hopefully the vision I have in my mind of what the HOLY MOL-EE! Community can be will soon become a reality.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Welcome to the HOLY MOL-EE! Chemistry Blog

Now with a number of users of HOLY MOL-EE! Multiple Modality Chemistry, I thought it would be nice to create a forum through which users could talk to each other and exchange ideas. So I open this up to all users of HOLY MOL-EE! Happy conversing!