I Love Twitter

I love Twitter, and I might be addicted. Fortunately – or unfortunately – I have to work all day and so can’t access Twitter until I get home around six.  Even then, I don’t dwell on Twitter Lane as many people seem to do; I just love to walk up and down the Twittersphere and … [Read more]

Bloggers Blog Because. . . Well, Because!

Why in the world would someone like me want to go to Blog World Expo, or any other blogging conference?  Would would someone like me NEED to go? Aren’t bloggers twenty and thirty-somethings?  Don’t they write about diapers and projectile vomit and daycare and breastfeeding at the workplace?  Bloggers are also techies, right?  Bloggers are … [Read more]

The Pricelessness of Blogging

I live out in the country, several miles from the nearest small town.  I know only one other adult who blogs, living in this area.  We met and became friends because of our blogs.  We have little in common besides our passion for blogging, but a passion for blogging is a big enough passion to … [Read more]

Blogging for Bargains!

I used to clip coupons from newspapers and magazines, but I don’t any more.  I don’t even take the newspaper, and haven’t for several years.  I still get a few magazines in the mail, but I’ll probably let the subscriptions lapse when they come due again. That being said, I still use coupons every time … [Read more]

Social Media Shrinks the Planet and Enlarges Our Lives

Social Media has so many facets; it’s impossible to cover them all in any one blog post, or even any one BOOK.  Yes, we make friends online.  Yes, we run businesses online.  Yes, we ask and get advice online.  Yes, we make purchases online.  The list goes on and on. For me, personally, one of … [Read more]

The Parenting Blogosphere: A REAL Reality Show in Progress

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There are TONS of parents in the Blogosphere, and none of them knows everything about rearing children. (One raises alfalfa; one rears children.  Semantics, semantics, semantics. . . .) However, we all know SOMEthing about rearing children, and if you put all of the “somethings” together, we just might have everything.  Maybe. It’s not just … [Read more]

REAL Bloggers KNOW. We Just. . . KNOW.

When I first started blogging back in 2004, a lot of others started right about the same time.  A lot of those people aren’t around any more, but those who are?  Most of them are my friends.  We’re friends for many reasons, and when I say that we are “friends,” what I am actually saying … [Read more]

Blogging: Not Just For The Young!

Not only am I a blogger, I’ve BEEN a blogger since April 2004;  I’m no newcomer!  If I may say so, I know whassup with the Blogosphere.  I have several hundred blogs in my blogrolls and readers.  Not only do I blog for myself, I blog for several clients as well.  I read everything I can … [Read more]

WE Are the Village!

I think sometimes that if there had been blogs when I was raising my children, I might not have made quite as many mistakes. Often, during those years, I felt very isolated.  I was sure that nobody else was feeling the same emotions, having the same problems, trying and failing at so many things, when … [Read more]

Blog World Expo: The Best of Both Worlds!

Blog World Expo excites me.  It thrills me.  Blog World Expo is like the culmination of bloggerhood fantasies: the coming together of people who know each other quite well, often so well that we could order for each other in a restaurant, or pick out shoes for each other.  We know all about their jobs.  … [Read more]