Photo of the Week: Tasty Tidbit for a Tern

Gray tern with black cap and black-tipped orange bill, extends its wings at it quickly flies off after diving into the water to catch a small fish in its bill.

In the midday heat of the summer, I don’t typically see many birds active in marshes.

A few Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons can be found along the shorelines.

Or perhaps a Wood Duck with their duckling family or Trumpeter Swans with their cygnets.

It can be pretty quiet in the marshes, except for the calls of the Red-Winged Blackbird.

But I’ll often see terns as they fly and circle over canals and marshes.

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Think Twice Before Only Publishing Your Posts on LinkedIn

Woman using a blue pen to handwrite in their spiral journal, a coffee mug in the foreground.

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a trend for people to publish posts on LinkedIn.

Not only two to three paragraph posts, but long posts with more than 1,000 words.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t publish posts on LinkedIn.

Their interface allows you to create a post, write your thoughts quickly, add a few line breaks to break up a wall of text, and press the “Post” button.

But I’m a big believer in owning your own content, rather than using Medium, LinkedIn, or Facebook to publish your content.

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