Posted in Miscellaneous on Sep 6th, 2009
I’m on The Writer’s [Inner] Journey today! The author, Meredith Resnick, wrote this: In honor of back to school I asked five of the writers I greatly admire to weigh in. With a very loose hat tip to the wonderful Raymond Carver–I wanted to know what these writers talk about when they talk about back [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jul 28th, 2009
Today a good friend sent me a link to this NPR article about bloggers, particularly mom bloggers, and their practices regarding product reviews and sponsorships. Basically, the issue is about whether or not readers can trust blog reviewers to give an honest review, since they may have been paid, or, at the very least, seduced [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jul 15th, 2009
I’m so excited! My new-ish friend, fellow blogathon-er, writers’ group member and writing colleague decided that my blog is worthy of his Ripe Tomato Award for Blogging Excellence. I was presented with this award two days ago, along with 15 other bloggers in Blog Salad’s high esteem. Ron S. Doyle, author of Blog Salad, is [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 4th, 2009
Thanks to Jennifer Fink over at Blogging ‘Bout Boys, who pointed me in the right direction, I was able to download this adorable template from Template~Mama. It’s called “Summery Scraps” and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. She has a bunch of incredibly cute, FREE templates available for download. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 1st, 2009
Now that the blogathon is officially over, I’m having major blogathon letdown. It’s rather like post-Christmas letdown, I think. We had quite a productive Twitter party this morning, discussing the positives that we all got out of this year’s blogathon. If you’re interested, you can read all about it here on WordCount. So, now it’s [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 31st, 2009
It’s officially the last day of the blogathon today. I had such a great experience with it this year, much more so than last year. Here’s what I took away this time around: * Blogging every day is really, really hard, but incredibly satisfying. * I’m not a fan of blogging on the weekends. It [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 19th, 2009
I didn’t get a post done because I’ve been under the weather and had to go to the doctor today. When you live out in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 35 miles to town, the process generally takes the entire day because you can’t go all that way without picking up groceries [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 3rd, 2008
I’m very excited to announce that I’m also going to be blogging occasionally on Larger Families. It’s a site “dedicated to parents raising the modern larger family! We strive to be a source of ideas, resources, entertainment and inspiration by and for moms with more than the ‘average’ number of kids,” started by one of [...]
