Blogging
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Sweet you rock and sweet you roll . . .
I’m happy to accept the Super Sweet Blogging Award from some Super Sweet Bloggers! Those who know me know that I LOVE both blogging awards and my sweets. Chocolate especially. And ice cream. And candy. Anything sweet, really. So this award not only delights me, but makes me hungry. As does this picture of cupcakes: Continue reading
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Advice to Bloggers – Do a Porn Post! (Sort of)
Although I promised that today I would do the Daily Post Weekly Writing Challenge, I find myself distracted by the Daily Prompt. It reads, in relevant part: Give your newer sisters and brothers-in-WordPress one piece of advice based on your experiences blogging. I couldn’t resist sharing my one piece of advice. Are you ready? Here Continue reading
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The Day WOAW Died . . .
Monday night was a typical night. After drafting a post, I hit “Publish,” and guess what happened? It wouldn’t let me. I was directed to my Dashboard where this message awaited me: “This blog has been deactivated because we believe that it does not comply with the WordPress.com Terms of Service or advertising policy. ” Continue reading
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The WordPress Family
Did you know that Clark Kent – yes the Clark Kent – lives in Ohio? He also blogs on WordPress. Okay, I’m not really sure who this elusive Clark Kent is, but I know this . . . Clark posts beautiful, inspiring posts about soulmates and grace, love, and humanity. He recently dinged me for an Continue reading
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Let the Sunshine In!
I’m so happy to accept the Sunshine Award from The (notso) Secret Life of a PhD student. Based in London, she writes beautiful posts, including this post which I love about why we love to read. She’s also a fan of The Good Wife, Beetlejuice, and milk chocolate, and published an article on Turkish youth called “Why Continue reading
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My Boy Band of Bloggers
It’s Friday night and I have two things on my mind: guilt and boys. Boys because I am surrounded by three of them here, and tomorrow that number increases to four. Nope, not pregnant and going into labor; rather, my brother is dropping off my sweet little nephew for the weekend. Guilt because it’s Friday Continue reading
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I Feel Pretty!
It’s awards season in Blogtropolis! I’ve just been honored with the “Beautiful Blogger Award” by the lovely Factory Maid. If you have a minute to check out her blog, you’ll find it worth your time. The Factory Maid is an adorable Brazilian-born twenty-something, who unfortunately struggled with eating disorders and an unstable childhood and young Continue reading
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On Being in the Mood…
Do you ever find that you are not in the mood to write? That you’d rather just sit and veg out, or sleep, or stare at a blank wall? That you’d rather do anything other than fire up the laptop? Do you have days where writing or blogging seem like a gargantuan effort and you Continue reading
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The Liebster Award
Many thanks to ish ism for nominating me for the Liebster Award! Go visit his blog and check out this post. The Liebster Award is a fun way to recognize and promote new up and coming blogs of a good standard with less than 200 followers. Nominees are asked to: 1. Post eleven facts about themselves. Continue reading
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“Us.” (With a cameo by Cindy Brady . . .)
I had a great weekend. I got to spend time with my best friend (even though I was driving her to the doctor- she’s better now). My husband cooked me dinner, did the food shopping, and brought flowers home for me. The kids are healthy and everyone slept through the nights. I made it to yoga Continue reading
Waiting on a Word 