It’s Not PMS, It’s You! Interview with the author
Fri, 27/08/10 – 14:04 | 26 Comments

“…for every woman who ever pulled her hair out trying to explain–for the 46th time–the importance of putting the toilet seat down, for Christ’s sake, or that burping the national anthem after every meal is not a constitutional right…

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My Formerly Hot Life: First the Blog, Now the Book
Wednesday, 11 Aug, 2010 – 14:54 | 39 Comments
My Formerly Hot Life: First the Blog, Now the Book

And I’m laughing, snorting even, in that not-so-subtle way that demands you ask me, “what’s so funny?”

The Inner Life of a Blogger
Monday, 26 Jul, 2010 – 11:45 | 21 Comments
The Inner Life of a Blogger

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….

Hello–Remember me? An apologia, of sorts
Thursday, 8 Jul, 2010 – 12:54 | 8 Comments
Hello–Remember me? An apologia, of sorts

Two weeks without a new post on MidLifeBloggers–my my my, haven’t we all been missing us. And haven’t I been remiss…

Writing Jobs That Pay–and some that don’t
Wednesday, 16 Jun, 2010 – 17:22 | 8 Comments

It’s Wednesday.  I bet you’re wondering: where’s that whatchamacallit Writer’s Workshop thingie?  S’not here.  Maybe t’won’t be ever again.  This website is iterating (new cool word I read all about here in the New York …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Commenting and Conversation
Wednesday, 26 May, 2010 – 14:38 | Comments Off
Wednesday Writer’s Workshop:  Commenting and Conversation

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 …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Talking About Writing
Wednesday, 19 May, 2010 – 12:30 | 2 Comments

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 …

Performing Failure Analysis on Our Parenting
Monday, 17 May, 2010 – 13:08 | One Comment
Performing Failure Analysis on Our Parenting

What’s done is done, and I definitely will not be throwing out my first set of kids as if they were the cussed-up first waffles that didn’t form correctly and now I can cook up a batch that comes out better.

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The First Question of Blogging
Thursday, 22 Apr, 2010 – 13:23 | 15 Comments

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 …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Blogging 101
Wednesday, 17 Mar, 2010 – 15:56 | 9 Comments

When I first started blogging back in The Day–’04 that would have been–no one in my circle of friends and family knew what a blog was.  Or cared, for that matter.  I was kind of …

Wednesday Writers Workshop: Building a better writer with timed-freewriting
Wednesday, 10 Mar, 2010 – 13:33 | 6 Comments

Do you ever do timed free-writing?  Do you ever just set a timer for ten or fifteen or thirty minutes and write about anything and everything till the bell rings?   You’re not writing about …