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I’m Not Selling My Soul–Just Trying to Keep MidLifeBloggers Going

09.19.2010

I’m stuck in a house worth about $150K less than what I paid for it in a neighborhood that is superb for families with small children, but for those of us who are single women of a certain age–not so much.

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My Formerly Hot Life: First the Blog, Now the Book

08.11.2010

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

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The Inner Life of a Blogger

07.26.2010

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….

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Hello–Remember me? An apologia, of sorts

07.08.2010

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

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Writing Jobs That Pay–and some that don’t

06.16.2010

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 Times) and part of our iteration is to STOP PASSING OURSELVES OFF AS SO DAMNED SERIOUS.  Seriously. I thought about [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Commenting and Conversation

05.26.2010

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 waste of time Other (please specify) 2. When I comment on a blog, I expect nothing the [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Talking About Writing

05.19.2010

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 goes it” group a time or two before. We gather at one of the growing number of watering hole/restaurants/wine bars in [...]

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Performing Failure Analysis on Our Parenting

05.17.2010

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.

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The First Question of Blogging

04.22.2010

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 can’t guarantee you riches, I can say your experience as a blogger will be successful.  Can’t answer it?  Go back and [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Blogging 101

03.17.2010

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 embarrassed to admit I was a blogger when people asked what I wrote. It felt somehow illegitimate, like I was [...]

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