Hi friends! It's been a while since I've been around here. For lots of reasons like we've been celebrating my birthday, a dear friend's birthday, going on adventures like ice skating in a mountain town and racing go karts. WordPress itself has been annoying lately not letting me add photos to my posts for some …
Last weekend, Malcolm and I rented a little fishing boat on Lake George. It only takes about an hour to get there from Colorado Springs. This is where we experienced our first fishing minus a practiced expert. No one put the worms on my hook, or cleaned the fish, so I decided fishing is not …
Whenever I'm speaking to someone about blogging, my number one suggestion is to read as many blogs as possible. During my most recent search for WordPress blogs, I stumbled upon a blog that captured my interest and my heart. It's titled "Letters to Rachel: A husband reaches out to his wife as part of the …
Over the last eight years I've been writing my blog, I've tried many different ways of managing it and keeping myself motivated. I've written only when I felt creative, I've planned out three weeks of content, I've done a mixture of both, and I also tried working in batches. I tried traveling and writing on …
On one of the many podcasts I subscribe to discussed evergreen posts and how to use those to leverage the content you've already created. I've written a few evergreen posts, or ones I hope to be evergreen and would like to share what I know from this experience. First of all, what is an evergreen …
As you may have noticed, I've been writing about blogging frequently as of late. Meta, as the kids would say. A few weeks ago, a reader asked me to write more about starting a blog and blogging in general. They said they worked up the courage to start one by reading posts about blogging, including …
Before I started this blog, I thought about starting one approximately 8472624635058 times. I put so so much thought into having a blog -- well, thoughts, hopes, fears, dreams -- it felt paralyzing. I didn't want to go through the slow stages of a blog at the beginning. Everyone's blog is a bit rocky when …
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Over the years, I have spoken to many people about starting blogs. It seems a lot of people have an idea bouncing around the walls of their mind but translating that idea into a blog is too much or scary. That is exactly what happened to me. I thought no one would want to read …
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