Many people I know have expressed a desire to travel to Europe, the Orient, or Australia. While I’d like to go to these places eventually, there is so much of my own country that I have yet to see and would like to see. When I came back from my vacation, I was itching to [...] Read more »
My First Blogging Award
I haven’t had the chance to check this blog’s stats since I returned from my vacation. This morning, I decided to check them out and found out that I’ve been awarded the SOB: Successful and Outstanding Blogger Award! This is too cool! Many thanks to Liz Strauss of Successful Blog. This is is Liz’s concept [...] Read more »
Shooting an Idea By You
I treated myself to a visit at the bookstore on Friday, using the guise of buying a present for my oldest’s friend, who had a birthday. Naturally, I came home with two books, in addition to his gift card. Best of Blogs is a neat little compendium of the most popular bloggers in a wide [...] Read more »
Blog Trolls and Snipers
Nick Wilson of Performancing grumbles about blog snobs. I know. I’ve seen the self-proclaimed gurus, Nick is talking about. I read their arrogant and pompous words, and then I moved on because I didn’t feel that they gave me any knowledge that I hadn’t learned before. His commentary reminded me of what I call Blog [...] Read more »
Photoblogging
Last weekend, we had an “almost” when my oldest decided to drink in the living room (against my explicit instructions) and spilled his water all over the table. That wouldn’t have been any big deal if it weren’t for the glass inlays, which the water seeped through and dripped on some old family photos. Fortunately, [...] Read more »
Doing a Little Housecleaning
Every now and then I find the need to declutter this blog. For instance, I’ve deleted the blogs that I don’t have time to maintain. That was something I’ve needed to do for at least a month. Read more »
Tag, You’re It!
I’ve been tagged by Lee Pletzers. This is what I have to do: 1. Delve into your blog archive. 2. Search my archive for the 23rd post. 3. Find the 5th sentence, or closest to. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Ponder it for meaning, subtext or [...] Read more »
When to Let a Blog Die
I started The Writers Buzz on Christmas Eve of last year with the goal of helping writers promote their books or anything writing-related. Over the months, I’ve gathered quite a bit of material for book marketing, internet marketing, etc. and received quite a few compliments as well as earning a contact in the PR industry. [...] Read more »
WordPress.com
I’m very familiar with the kinks and hiccups a new site can bring. WordPress.com is having its share right now. Since Thursday, I’ve been having off and on difficulties with my site loading. Today, all seems to be well. So I’ll resume posting recipes as I find them. Read more »
A Confirmed Blogoholic
I’ve become obsessed with creating new blogs, it seems. Earlier today, I was doing some “housecleaning” on my parent website and found four blogs that I set up and never got around to working on. Then there are the others that I’ve listed in the sidebar of this blog (2 of which I created on [...] Read more »