Can you be a Daddy’s Girl by default? No one ever called me a daddy’s girl. I was not best friends with my mom either. Afterthought at best, and more accurately, an accident, that is what I was to my parents who in their 40s had an unplanned and unwanted fifth child. Me. A daughter […]
App of the Week – Buycott
As the lead-in on the Buycott app company landing page says, “Have you ever wondered whether the money you spend ends up funding causes you oppose?” Consumer-side market research has come of age with the Buycott app that allows you to find out who owns the product you are thinking of buying. I may be […]
Juice, Juju, Karma, and The Business of Blogging: Part II
Do you every ask yourself, who am I helping with my participation in this ad campaign or blogging network? Perhaps you should. Helping yourself, helping your community, and helping global corporations all have very different reward structures and consequences. Types of Strategic Promotion This is the second post in a series of posts on the […]
Juice, Juju, Karma, and The Business of Blogging: Part I
Guidelines: Self Promotion, Friend Promotion, and Brand Promotion Here are some significant considerations that influence how I allocate link and ad juice: Many people in my writing circles have been puzzling over the FTC disclosure guidelines released mid-March of this year. When my friends thrive, I thrive. When I thrive, my friends thrive. When companies […]
Mommy Blogging Grows Up
I have always been a Mommy Blogger. I have never been a Mommy Blogger. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman I spend a lot of time attempting to reconcile these contradictory truths. That is why I love this quote. On The I […]
Free Gray and Black Textures
The images in this post are all images I created from scratch except the first one that I downloaded from an out-of-print book and cleaned up. I thought I would share them, freely, as they are not the type of thing I can easily sell outside of a virtual world but they are […]