Category: Blogging

  • Sunshine Blogger Quiz

    Sunshine Blogger Quiz

    I was nominated by Chandra at Italian Belly to participate in the Sunshine Blogger Quiz!  It’s a blogger interview where you answer some questions, then tag a few fellow bloggers to participate and it just continues on. This is my first encounter with one of these “tag a blogger” type chain letters, and it was…

  • What I Learned From Analytics (and What I Didn’t)

    What I Learned From Analytics (and What I Didn’t)

    If you’re anything like me, you’re a blogger who’s completely overwhelmed by looking at Google Analytics.  I go visit my charts and I have no idea how to manipulate anything to get it to show my what I want.  The words are weird, there’s a graph with a bunch of ups and downs, and then…

  • Guest Posts: Handling Requests & Offering Posts

    Guest Posts: Handling Requests & Offering Posts

    Now that I feel I’ve got a handle on where I want my blog to go I’m ready to entertain the idea of guest posts.  And guest posting.  But I really have no idea of the etiquette and real world applications of guest posting. Incoming Requests I have had a handful of emails from people…

  • New Year, New Blog Goals!

    New Year, New Blog Goals!

    Welcome to 2017! Now that we’re in a fresh, new year I thought I’d share some of my hopes and plans for my blog.   When I started blogging I really had no idea what I was doing.  I just wanted to basically write down my life, and the stuff I was getting up to…

  • Blog Update: 8 Months on WordPress

    Blog Update: 8 Months on WordPress

    Today I want to reflect on my blog and how I’m doing after 8 months on WordPress. I feel that I’m holding at “so far so good.”  I’ve got my blog looking fine, my email list has a few subscribers, and my content is feeling a little more unidirectional.  I have some ideas for the…