What Do You Want to Make Today?
It’s day 40 of 2016. Already. I’ve been meaning to do a little post looking back on the first month, now a month plus a little more. I managed to keep my promise to myself so far and have posted a craft challenge prompt every day this year. When I started, I wasn’t really sure […]
This week’s notions is inspired by the fact that last weekend was the fifth Arkansas Women Bloggers University conference, which took place in Hot Springs and was, by all accounts, fabulous. (I wasn’t there because it was my birthday weekend.) While I wasn’t there to get the knowledge live, I’m happy to pick up some […]
Bloggers, like everyone else, are super-busy people. It’s kind of strange that one of the things we have to do is be active on social media because we have to get the word out when we have new content. But if you’re posting everything by hand whenever you have a new post, you’re probably spending […]
I’ve recently started writing for a local food publication, which is the closest to journalism I’ve come in a few years. A colleague has commented a couple of times on my ability to find stories and to see stories where she just says, “oh, that’s interesting.” In the biz, they call that having good news […]
I am usually a planner by nature, but you wouldn’t know it lately. After writing a few weeks ago about how much I love to do lists and calendars, I haven’t been using either much recently. Facing two out-of-town trips, the end of school, the start of swim lessons and goodness knows what else, no […]
If you’ve been around Pinterest much you’ve probably noticed that when you click on some pins, they’re nicer than others. It’s most obvious on recipe posts, which look like this: You see the author, all the ingredients and some more basic information about the recipe before you even click on the link. This feature is […]
I love our blogging community in Northwest Arkansas. We meet up once a month, and it’s one of the rare times I go out by myself, so it’s especially special. We go to a restaurant, talk and laugh. We usually don’t talk about blogging all that much. But last night we did a little, and […]