At the beginning of every month I now put an article on this site’s home or landing page, that is also a blog post, that is intended to give readers ideas for creating content related to women’s history, the historic events of the month, and historic and archaeological events involving women. There are supposed to be 30 to 40 prompts or spin off points in each of these “month of…” posts. I enjoy the exercise of putting these together whenever I do them. I really, really like this month’s post of prompts, if I do say so myself. Do check it out.
Did you see the Presidential Proclamation on Women’s History Month, 2016? You can find it here. In it the President encourages us to observe International Women’s Day on March 8th. He also suggests going to WomensHistoryMonth.gov for information about “the generations of women who,” as he says, “left enduring imprints on our history.” He also mentions the upcoming summit the White House will host on “The United State of Women,” in May. It will both highlight advances in and efforts to help women confront the challenges while aspiring to greatness.
Of course, as this month is Women’s History Month, I am learning more about being an editor and publisher via the Her Story series I am publishing on this site. So far we have had a story about a Persian grandmother’s hand-crafted textile and all it conveys to a granddaughter. Next up will be a story from a teacher about a teacher. Actually we have two of those. Another will be about a single mom. There will be a step-mother tribute, and another will pay homage to a very special mother in law. And aunts and grandmothers and great aunts will be covered too. I hope to receive a story about a WWII female pilot within a day or two. And there are more! Stories of regular women who were significant – we all have such stories and I am so happy to be able to bring some of them to you.
Last year in April, as this site was just a wet and screaming neonate, the A to Z Challenge helped us plant 26 basic articles about Women’s Legacy. Come this April, in a very few weeks, we will be doing another series of 26 posts with an A to Z coverage of a Legacy Tools theme. It is a busy Spring. Hope you will continue to enjoy it with us.
Sunday is a Day Off or a Day for Free Writing
Since I am writing, it definitely is not a day off, so this must be free writing. The A to Z Blogging Challenge that is taking place this month gives participants a day off each week. I really, really like this whole thing of having a day off each week; it is civilized. But this month I am participating in BlogHer’s daily writing challenge, as well as the A to Z challenge, and it is an every single day challenge, although prompts, which are only suggested not required, are provided only for Monday through Friday with weekend days being topically free days when participants can write about anything.
For a day of rest, I had a very busy day.
The Meet Up group I coordinate, Tucson Women Bloggers, met this morning. It was a great experience, once again. Women of varying perspectives, experience levels, political persuasions, blogging types and needs all gathered together to exchange information, encourage and learn from each other, and strategize for how to build the best infrastructure we can for those will build upon the interconnected women’s history we create as we blog. Great new people, great returning members, and all of us together working toward the goal of getting the valuable information we all have as women out there to create change. Information is power.
Checked in on the home front and found all to be ok, so I went to pick up my new hybrid touchscreen laptop. I have only had my tablet and my desktop for almost two years. I have been wanting to try working on a PC so I will better understand what clients who are not Mac-o-philes have as context when they create their blogs, so I decided after an unfortunate iPad drop on the floor which left me with no sound on it, that this was the right time to return to using a laptop. I’d been checking out specs for a while and decided to look at ASUS because of price and good reviews. When I realized the inexpensive machine was light and smaller than most laptops, but bigger than a tablet and had a touch screen too. I decided to give it a go. So I picked up my new laptop today and I am now becoming reacquainted with Windows (though this is version 8), Microsoft Office and for the moment, Internet Explorer.
It has been an eventful day.
April is for Blogging Fools
April is here and for many bloggers, me for example, that means the A to Z Blogging Challenge at http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com. If you are particularly crazy, another challenge can be included too. So this month I will be attempting to write 2 posts every day, one for my personal blog and the other for my professional site.
I have the first week planned out for both my blog and site, more or less. I use some of the prompts from the NaBloPoMo section on BlogHer, but I’ve scrambled the days on which suggested topics or prompts are used into an A to Z list too.
The A to Z Challenge gives you Sunday off, and weekends are for free writing during NaBloPomo, so I may try to do the weekly GBE2 prompts during that weekend time.
I am also finishing up an eBook this month. Wish me luck!
FIRST WEEK of April 2013 Blogging
ReasonCreek.com A to Z & NaBloPoMo Challenge:
- APRIL Attempt to Blog Like Mad
- BLOGGING, How do You Keep Fresh Year After Year?
- COMPARE Yourself to an Element of Nature
- “In Spring at the end of the day you should smell like DIRT.” — Margaret Atwood
- Do You ENJOY Cleaning?
- Weekends are for open blogging in NaBloPoMo
- Weekends are for open blogging in NaBloPoMo
BoomHer.net A to Z Blogging Challenge
- A Isn’t for AARP
- B is for BoomHer
- C is for Cohort
- D is for Demography
- Empty Nests Miscategorized
- Feminization of Culture
- You get to take Sundays off during the A to Z Challenge