Comments on: A Blogger’s Christmas in Sacramento

By: byjane

byjane — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:56:45 +0000

@Duchess– Since I share your love of parties, I did a little googling of “blogging Oxford England” and look what I came up with: http://www.expat-blog.com/en/directory/europe/england/oxford/

By: DuchessOmnium

DuchessOmnium — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:17:08 +0000

I only blog to flex my writerly muscles, and my few readers may have noticed those muscles wasting. I am realistic enough to know that very few people make money and I have no expectations of anything of the sort. Mostly I just bang my head and wonder why anyone would be remotely interested — except that when I get brave enough to write, I find people ARE interested. I can’t account for that.

Meanwhile, a Bloggy Scene in Sacramento? Does this mean there might be one in Oxford (England)? Are there parties I am missing??? The Duchess loves parties.

By: byjane

byjane — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:49:48 +0000

@Walker,
On the one hand, the mommybloggers ruined it; on the other, they created this space for women who blog for business. This is the devil in feminism: choices. If we didn’t have so many, we wouldn’t be confused!

By: byjane

byjane — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:47:20 +0000

@ridgely,
If you Southerners didn’t add all those extra syllables to REAAAAAAAAAAAAALY, it wouldn’t take up all that dead space.

Thank you for your kind words…I’m standing here blushing and saying ‘aw shucks’ (in a Yankee intonation).

By: byjane

byjane — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:44:13 +0000

The feeling is mutual, missy (can one call a mother of two missy these days?).

By: ridgely

ridgely — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:04:37 +0000

I definitely missed the blog boat, I guess- or maybe the south is REAAAAAAAAAAALy slow (although, now I realize really is an empty word that takes up space, and offers no meaning to my prose).

I love reading MidlifeBloggers. Jane, you will always be my mentor. You stand out in a crowd of mediocrity- rest assured I will never miss a post.One of my proud moments as a writer was the day you e-mailed me that you wanted to run one of my posts in MLB.

Blogging means many things to people- I cherish the opportunity it has giving me to interact with talented writers such as yourself and your readers. Hell, now most of my posts are about my jack russell terrier puppy, Sammy-

am I going up or down?

By: Walker

Walker — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:00:53 +0000

I started in Feb. 2008 with an anonymous blog (delicacies.wordpress.com) and loved it. I said all and anything I wanted… but now the blog is under my real name as are the other 2 because I am working as a freelance writer and need the links and publicity. I’m caught between losing my ‘funny, sexy, midlife’ voice as I try to craft a “presence” out there for my writing. And this, my newest blog is suffering as a result.
Like Jane I don’t read as many blogs as I used to, though partly due to time management issues. But, ultimately the ones that do get read are ones with sincere thoughts and opinions, little pretentiousness and a desire to connect with their readers

I just found a local group of bloggers and will probably join, though it’s mostly a group of women who blog for business! And Mommy bloggers…oh God don’t get me started….

By: Helen Jane

Helen Jane — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:50:59 +0000

It’s been a huge struggle on my brain the past year — when I started blogging it was just a few of us sharing our stories, now, I’m not quite sure I fit in.

Since I’ve developed some skills and a rather thick skin through the past decade, I figured it would be good to try commercialization, but not at the expense of my weird web hobby (sharing MY stories on the internet).

I giggle at all the folks who have it all figured out, because we are still babies here. Babies sharing stories.

“No giveaways or product reviews here, just whatever the heck I want to keep posting, the way it’s been (with a few stumbles and whatthehells) for the past 12 years.”

I love your site, btw.