Welcome to the World of 10. We’ve got ten wonderful reasons to invite you into our world:

1. Everyone loves top ten lists.
2. There are always ten ways to do something interesting.
3. Everyone has at least ten skills, no matter how silly.
4. You can easily remember ten things by counting on your fingers.
5. It’s handy to have ten quirky facts to sprinkle in conversation.
6. You can quickly find ten new interests on only one site.
7. It will only take ten minutes of your time to discover ten new ideas.
8. Before long, you’ve found 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000 ways to expand your mind.
9. You don’t have to browse ten sites to find ten relevant facts.
10. You can’t wait to find out what we’ll add next to our World of 10!

We’re Karen Brockney and Richard A. Howard. We hope you enjoy our world!

Karen Brockney is a retired Web communications professional and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Now that she’s retired, she can do whatever she wants — and that includes playing with Web graphics and design, learning digital photography and video, and sharing those interests on the Web. She also likes travel, reading, TV and films. Karen maintains Alibony Web Design and Graphics, an eclectic collection of cheap, fast, and easy lessons for graphics dabblers.

Richard A. Howard is the developer of the Price Direction Indicator (PDI) and the Complete Trading Model (CTM) and principal contributor to buyupside.com, a Web site for retail investors. He writes the articles for the site. He’s also a retired college instructor, technical writer and experienced retail investor.

Author of BUY ON THE UPSIDE - Outsider Advice and Encouragement for the Stock Investor. and Eat Your Spinach: Spend Less & Save More (And How to do it).