A Daily Life

Today’s guest post is from Judith at the blog, Diabetic Redemption.  When I left a note at how impressed I was with the questions, she laughed and said “. . .unpaid student loans owed to a seminary that no longer exists at least taught me what questions to ask!” At the bottom, she does qualify […]

Embedding a YouTube video into your blog isn’t difficult to do, but I find the instructions from the WordPress support forum to be difficult to follow.  It’s really not that hard.  There are two ways to do it: Using the “upload / insert”, choose “from URL”.  Then choose “Audio, Video, or Other File” and copy […]

One of the frustrating things about blogging, doing a daily challenge, or any other kind of a hobby is finding the time to do it.  For me, an additional problem is not be miserably tired so I can actually enjoy the process of doing something creative. The author, Iris Murdoch, once said: But for most of […]

Today’s guest post is reposted from JudithB at I choose how I will spend the rest of my life.  Although this isn’t the type of information I usually seek for this blog, I found her review of this book to be fascinating about the history of the Oxford English Dictionary.  Since words are near and dear to the […]

Peggy Hostetler, author of the blog The Simple Woman, has a powerful set of questions to help diarists and bloggers record their life at the present moment in time.  You consider things such as what you are doing, thinking and wearing.  It asks about your plans for the rest of the week and invites you to […]

I enjoy leaving comments, seeing the comments of others, and the replies from the blogger.  Sometimes though, it becomes more than I expected.  Instead of petering out after several days, the comments go on and on, and I’m no longer interested in my mail box filling up with them. It’s possible to stop following a […]

Earlier I wrote about creating a post about a walk you took.  I listed several examples as suggestions of what such a post might look like. A first draft should be written from the heart, getting out your emotions and passion.  But while editing it is helpful to have some suggestions to ensure your post tells a […]

Today’s guest post is written by JudithB at I choose how I will spend the rest of my life.  I’d noticed her references to Judy Reeves in several of her posts.  Although I don’t have this particular book, I have several others by Judy.  Judy also does on-line classes at the International Association for Journal Writers.  From […]

Today’s guest post comes from blogger Kate Kresse at Believe Anyway.  She recently wrote a post titled “We were loved before we existed“.  It was much more than a statement of her faith, it was also about people who loved and influenced her. I asked Kate to share some thoughts for readers to try in recording […]

I’ve become a big fan of independently published books!  There are so many good ones out there, including “Turning Personal Experiences Into Parables” by Eddie Jones and Cindy Sproles.  It’s a very short book, but for 99 cents, it provides a lot of good information. The things I found the most the valuable included: Preparations […]