NBC Nightly News Features Listen to Your Mother Show

The Listen to Your Mother show is a national series of shows where local women tell their funny, inspirational, heart-warming, ridiculous and real stories of motherhood in front of a live audience.

For the second year in a row Lela … Read More

The guide to Google Reader alternatives

The end of Google Reader is getting close. If you rely on Reader to get your blog fix it’s time to make some decisions and get used to using something else.

What is Google Reader? What is an RSS feed?

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Delight in Charlie {One Little Word}

This year I fell in love with the “One Little Word” concept, which is typically a scrapbooking thing. Since my blog is my scrapbook in a lot of ways, I’m applying the principles of One Little Word (OLW) here on … Read More

Urgent WordPress Security Issue

If you are a blogger and you use WordPress there has been a major security hole discovered in two very popular plugins.

Here’s the email I got from Site5, my hosting service:

We wanted to take this time to pass … Read More

Morning Awesome

For weeks I’ve been waking up between 5:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., looking at the clock, thinking I should get up, then waking up again at 6:30 a.m. What is that about?

Let me tell you EXACTLY what that’s about.

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Perspective: baby and the blog conference

While I was swapping business cards (and wow! Y’all have cute business cards) and talking about things like monetization, brand relationships, content strategy and the like at Blissdom, my friend Peggy was birthing new life into this world.

Just when … Read More

Thank you MOPS!

This morning I got to speak to the same MOPs group that made me feel like I belonged and I was not alone in the very scary journey that was being a new mom in a new town.

The Rogers … Read More

Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 3 {Blissdom 2013}

Don’t worry if Exercise 3 is the first you’re seeing this “Writing with Bianca Olthoff” series. Links the the first two are at the bottom of this post. 

Writing Exercise Three: Write a short short story (minimum of one sentence, … Read More

Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 2 {Blissdom 2013}

What? You missed yesterday’s post about the fabulous Bianca Olthoff? That’s okay. Go here: Bianca Olthoff Blissdom Writing Exercise 1

Exercise Two: Identify on a timeline five high points in life and five low points.

I won’t share the gory … Read More

Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 1 {Blissdom 2013}

One of the best breakout sessions at Blissdom 13 was a writing session led by feisty latina storyteller Bianca Olthoff, who was raised in the ghetto in California by her Mexican immigrant and preacher father. You have to hear her story … Read More