BlogHer’10 is coming up next week and while MidLifeBloggers will not be there, we thought it important to offer this treatise on the psychodynamics of blogging for all the attendees….
Read the full story »What We See In The Mirror and How We Feel About It
The work that we do and that we wish we did
Our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves
Mates, children, parents, siblings, friends
What we think about what’s happening outside our door
You should know from the outset that my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek. This post will not mention the decorated dead of America’s many wars. Not that they don’t deserve it, but, hey, this is an ode to my personal dead. Read the full story »
So here’s a short survey…just because I’m curious
1. I think Commenting on blogs is
a good way to get my two cents in
the best way to create a conversation with the blog author and others
a …
One of the perks of being a writer in Sacramento (and you had to ask, right?) is the monthly meetings of Writers Who Wine. I believe I may have mentioned this “Hail, fellow, how …
Inspiration is not only fickle; it creeps in on silent feet and leaves without saying goodbye. How then are we supposed to grab and use its bounty? Oh yes, writers take notes. At least …
It was an eye-opening evening for the both of us, witnessing my ownership of my sexuality.
So it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. I know that because all of my magazines are full of Mom stories. Mostly, they wax eloquent with a slight hiccough: “I love[d] my mom BUT.” Jamie Lee Curtis …
The appeal of blogging is that it’s a democratic arena; you can blog about any topic, any field, any subject that hooks your attention. While it is true that the more well-known blogs tend to …
To continue the conversation we began last month. I put to you then what I consider to be The First Question of Blogging: Why do you want to blog? Answer that, and while I …
Have you ever read Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried? It tells the story of a platoon of soldiers in the Viet Nam war through the things that they carried in the knapsacks. I …
As promised, this is what I wrote in response to last Wednesday’s musical prompt. And you? What did you write?
I got the Christine Kane CD at BlogHer’07, which happened not long after Dennis moved out. …
If you’re the praying sort, or the meditating sort, or just the sort who will think good thoughts for a little dog who means the world to me–please do.