It seems that this is a week for saying yes to new experiences. Last night, my husband and I took our first salsa-dancing class, for a piece I’m working on about couple-friendly workouts. And the other day, I scheduled a session with a portraitist who paints Intimate Portraits, and then met up with two other writers I had previously only communicated with online.

It’s tough to tear me away from the computer, though, and I’ve still been reading…

• ProBlogger’s Copyright, Blogging and Content Theft
• Mashable’s Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand
• The New York Times’ A Girl World Closes, and Fans Mourn
• FreelanceFolder’s 10 Things You’ve Heard About Freelancing That Are Actually True
• PopMatters’ Twitter and Newspeak
• FreelanceSwitch’s 5 Surprisingly Simple Steps To Do More At Work & Play
• Editor Unleashed’s Why It’s Good to Write Mad
• Mike Design’s Now for the Greatest Balancing Act of All!
• FreelanceSwitch’s 10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make
• Twenty Set’s 5 Answers to Tough Questions Companies Have About Using Social Media
• Mashable’s Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared
• The Anti 9-to-5 Guide’s I’m now on Twitter…