Hi everyone. Today, I’m so very pleased to introduce my new website. It was made by Jenny Medford at Websy Daisy, whom I recommend enthusiastically. On my end, everything was straightforward and easy; Jenny was patient, responsive, and imaginative; the parts of website-building that were beyond my abilities were magically lifted from my plate; I… Read more »
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FAQ: Why don’t you allow comments on your blog or involve yourself in most social media?
A couple of years back, I closed comments on my blog and removed email access. When I started using Twitter as an amalgamation feed for my blog, I decided to make it clear in my profile that I don’t read @-replies. And I’m not on Facebook. All of these were rather soul-wrenching decisions, I’m afraid… Read more »
Keeping My Center in the Era of the Interwebs
Here are a few questions I ask myself before I hit “publish” on any blog post: Is it too personal? Will it make me feel exposed in some way? Why? Does it compromise my self-respect? How? To the best of my ability to judge, does it respect others? How recently have I blogged and how… Read more »
On Blogging
A friend and I had a conversation recently about the concept of blogging — or tweeting, if that’s your thing, or being on Facebook — about generally having a public internet presence. This is something I think about a lot — what it means, why I blog, whether I should keep blogging. These are surprisingly… Read more »
O HAI
Hi everyone. I still exist. Apparently I am taking a small blog break! I didn’t see it coming or I would’ve announced it. But I’ve been doing some more travel, I’ve been having work meetings, I’ve been recuperating, I’ve been working on various categories of things, and somehow haven’t been feeling bloggy. I think a… Read more »
“And the Whole World Collapsed”
In my last post, while (gracelessly) complaining about the way some nonprofit organizations try to drum up support in my neighborhood, I mentioned that before I contribute to a particular organization, I like to do research on it and seek outside opinions. At the end of this post, I explain *how* I do that, and… Read more »
15-Minute Blogging
I’m giving myself 15 minutes to write this blog post. If I’m not done in 15 minutes, then it’s not posting. Because, you know, I’m on a blog break here. Here’s the thing about being on a blog break: what am I to do when people around me keep doing super-cool things that I want… Read more »
Randutiae, Get Your Randutiae Here
Cover of Fire, U.K. large print edition, published by Clipper Large Print —> So. Randomness today. Read what interests you, skip what doesn’t. Book Boyfriend Names. I got a kick out of Marie Rutkoski‘s short post about literary boyfriends and their names. Do you even have to read the L’Engle books to know that Adam… Read more »
Popping in Again with Stuff and Things (and Orchids)
As you can see, I am very good at taking an enforced blogging break. Like last week’s post, however, today’s is mostly full of worthy links to other people’s websites. Plus, orchid nonsense that has no relevance to anything. Three things. 1. I’m a little behind the curve on this, but May 1 was BADD,… Read more »
Rethinking the Blog
So, the blog posts I like to write are the ones that don’t have anything to do with news. They’re the posts about random thoughts, the poetry or poll posts, the posts in which I answer FAQs or talk about writing and life. They are NOT the posts in which I say, guys, here’s what’s… Read more »
