Too tired to blog tonight after a long day of grandmothering in Woodstock. What on earth will tomorrow’s blog be about? The clue lies in the previous sentence. Readers in the Blog-A-Day challenge will understand – I haven’t missed a day since May lst, and I’m not about to fall by the wayside now. No… [Read More]
Learning curve vs. linear left-brain tradition
I’ve been mulling over my live WordPress lesson with Alexis Grant at Panera yesterday. Alexis is five years younger than my daughter, and she whizzed effortlessly around her laptop, demonstrating all kinds of features I’d been clueless about and even teaching me some html language. I asked her if she’d ever formally studied this stuff, and… [Read More]
Amazing synchronicity amd live WordPress lesson
What are the odds that out of 22 participants in Blog Book Tour’s Blog-A-Day challenge, three of us live in the Capital Region in upstate New York? And that one of those uses WordPress and offered me a live tutorial? (Most people in the BAD challenge are using BlogSpot.) Today I met Alexis Grant at Panera… [Read More]
Blogging as memoir
Tonight I attended the first in a series of group readings, part of “The Memoir Project” at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. Memoirs are tremendously “in” right now, and this series features classes and workshops as well as readings. By and large, the evening was engrossing, but a large part of… [Read More]
Feeling unprofessional and playing Spider
Thanks to all of you who responded to my professional vs. amateur question. I think Alan Chin sums it up best: “Profession and amateur are both labels. When we push the egos out of the way, we are simply all writers. Some get paid more than other, but pay is not the only conpensation. Bliss… [Read More]
A writer, yes, but professional or amateur?
Thanks to those of you who commented on my blog about gardening with my granddaughters. I consider myself blessed in having such a wonderful family, albeit a small one, and the leisure to pretty much follow my whims day to day. Today’s been another day of diversion, and tonight’s shaping up to be the same…. [Read More]