I’m not sure whether to thank or blame Lisa Gates at Design Your Writing Life for A Gratitude “MeMe” for “YouYou.” On one hand, this post has taken more time and effort to compile than any other single post I’ve ever written. Lisa said it would be a challenge to do it manually, but I … Read more
Robert Hruzek shared that he doesn’t set blogging goals. I agreed with what he said and wrote this comment: I’m a writer who loves words, not a statistician who loves numbers. 🙂 Now, I’m going to be inconsistent and talk statistics. Today is a milestone day, so I looked up my stats to see if … Read more
Recently I’ve been noticing incoming links from blogs I’ve never heard of. I learned that this blog is included in Troy Worman’s list of Outstanding Blogs. I don’t know who added me to the list, but thank you to whoever you are. In the past, I included a long list of recommended blogs because I … Read more
Today Bloggers Unite in Acts of Kindness at Blog Catalog. Bloggers are encouraged to perform acts of kindness and blog about them today. My act of kindness was to support someone who does much more than I do. I wrote about Linda Cano’s volunteer work for Soldiers’ Angels more than a year ago. Linda has … Read more
Diana Brandmeyer at Next in Dianaland honored me with the Nice Matters Award. This award is for those bloggers who are nice people, good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world. Diana certainly deserves recognition for being nice, and I … Read more
As I read blogs, I notice an increasing trend in certain kinds of posts. Some blogs have a weekly or monthly roundup drawing attention to some of the posts on their blog. I look at the headline and click away from these posts. If the topic interested me, I read the post when it first … Read more
Today is the second birthday of Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog, and she’s invited every SOB (Successful and Outstanding Blogger) she has named in the last two years to her party. That’s 646 bloggers … and I’m proud to be one of them. Happy birthday, Liz. Thank you for your inspiration, your wisdom, your caring. Thank … Read more
Just wanted to post a note to let you know I’m playing catch up and will miss a few days of blogging. My husband had a heart problem, and I’m catching up from spending time with him at the hospital and dealing with side-effects of his medication after he came home. He’s doing much better … Read more
In my last post, I linked back to an article on the cost of self-publishing. At the time, I noticed all the amounts showed as zero and made a note to go back and correct the post. However, the post was written correctly, but every number that had a dollar sign before it appeared as … Read more
If you’ve made a comment here recently, you’ve probably noticed a couple of new plugins. Live Comment Preview does exactly what the name implies – it gives a live preview as you type your comment. Most of us find it much easier to spot a mistake when a comment goes live than when we’re typing … Read more