Just call me Pollyanna

“If no one hates you, you’re doing something wrong” This is a quote from a recent post on Copyblogger. Do you think that’s true? While I agree that you can’t water down your content so much that no one will ever take issue with it,...

Unplugged

Just returned from a long weekend spent camping in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. While it was heaven for my son (pictured above), it was not quite my cup of tea. Though we did have a good time despite buckets of rain the first night and ridiculous...

4 Reasons Your Blog Needs a Logo

A recent commenter asked, “how critical is it that a blog have a logo?” That’s a good question. Whether your blog should have a logo really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, but in the end I believe that if you are serious about...

Speedlinking 7.16.07

I usually hesitate to include a link to a post at ProBlogger, because I sort of assume everyone is reading Darren’s blog, but in this case I thought he had such a good idea I’d include it here anyway. It’s a very interesting group writing project...

The I Follow Movement is not dead

So, you’ve probably read about the new breed of comment spammers on ProBlogger, and maybe even have read Wendy’s post about why she felt she needed to turn nofollow back on or Chris Garrett’s latest post on the subject, and you might be thinking of...

Rockin’ Chick Bloggers

Char at Essential Keystrokes very kindly nominated me for a “Rockin’ Chick Blogger” award. Sometimes on this side of the blogging world, we girls can feel as though we’re in the minority. Oh sure, there are millions of Mommy Bloggers and...