Tag: blogging
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5 Truths to Encourage You if You’re Feeling Like a Failure
If you feel like a failure though you’re giving it your all, these five spiritual truths will encourage your heart and direct your steps.
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Anticipating the First Day of School? Your Teacher Is, Too
And she wants an ideal year — just like you This week’s blog post will take you out of my personal blog site to Medium.com, where I usually cross-post what I write here first. I had to do it in reverse this week because I wrote this week’s blog for the Medium Writers Challenge. The…
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Dear Reader, Why in the World Do You Read My Blog Posts?
Sometimes — like my cat — we do our duty but miss our target. Sometimes it truly stinks. Keep trying and adjust your aim.
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Stand by your work…
Showing your art or writing for public consumption is like offering your heart, your very self — and chancing rejection. It isn’t just a technique or a style or the juxtaposition of color. It is heart and soul offered.
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Do you hate popups as much as I do?
Recently, I’ve been exploring a variety of blogs. The instant I land on a blog I once considered a promising read, a box pops up, offering me the blogger’s firstborn child in exchange for my email address.
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Why I write…
Welcome to All Things Work Together. This post “Why I write…” is a good introduction to my blog, which covers my moments, musings, memories and milestones — as I live, learn, love and laugh. If you like what you read, please share it, and I’d certainly be honored if you’d follow me.
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Identity crisis and blah blah blog…
If you’re looking for “Sound Off,” you are in the right spot. I have decided to rename my blog “All Things Work Together” — based on my favorite Scripture verse, Romans 8:28.
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The day after…
I awakened this morning before my alarm, but I didn’t start writing a blog post in my head or on my keyboard. Instead, I promptly (accidentally) dumped my husband’s cooler filled with melted ice all over the kitchen and had an impromptu floor-cleaning session. Even while I was cleaning, however, my mind didn’t try to…
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My reflections on NaBloPoMo…
My alarm awakened me at 4:30 this morning for the first time this month. I haven’t missed that blaring sound blasting inches from my head. However, today I definitely missed the extra hour I’ve typically had for writing my daily blog posts by not “sleeping in” till 4:30. Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo,…
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SEO and so what?
In my work as a technical editor working on marketing campaigns for new inventions, SEO is considered an important part of the job. I’m beginning to see how important it is to blogging, too. I admit it: Before I worked in marketing, I had no idea what SEO was or why it was so significant.…
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I can’t wait to be discovered…
Personal blogging is more about changing my life — or recording my life lessons — than changing the world. It is certainly not about being discovered. It may be a side effect, but from what I’ve found, it’s 15 minutes of fame or less. Maybe 1.5 or 15 days of fame. Or less, much less.
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To NaBloPoMo or not to NaBloPoMo, that is the question…
Should I participate in this year’s National Blog Posting Month, NaBloPoMo? I started considering that question at least a month ago but waffled as to making a decision. And for good reason. If you check out my posting results for this entire year, you would see that I have written (or at least published) fewer…
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#No filter? Not exactly…
—————- I have 60 drafts in my blog queue — 61 if you include this post I just started. Lately, I have been writing less and more — writing less often but writing more words in longer posts that I then hesitate to publish. I find myself wishing I could write anonymously — which might make me…
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Blog bye…
Hello, my name is Sara, and it has been 24 days since my last blog post. Life as I know it has been busier than usual, and blogging — my usual go-to in any free time or lunch time or moments I can steal before I’m on the clock at work time — has been forsaken.…
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“Dine at desk” November…
Because we went out for lunch to celebrate the birthday of a colleague yesterday — and went out for lunch last week to bid farewell to a colleague moving to another city — my husband has taken to asking me what I am doing for lunch, as if on a daily basis I am having…
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When a blog is like a diet…
I am an all or nothing person, and I’m not proud of it. When I start a no-sugar diet, for instance, the moment I blow it and eat some candy, the diet is done. I can’t seem to get beyond that failure, count it as a temporary lapse, and move on. I see it as having…
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Two-timing…
“Torn between two lovers, Feeling like a fool, Loving the both of you Is breaking all the rules…” (Mary Macgregor, “Torn Between Two Lovers”) I have to admit I have that song running through my mind these days. I’m a two-timer and I must confess. It started off innocently enough. I just left a little…
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Bane or blessing?
I’ve had a hard time writing lately–or at least a hard time self-publishing. I miss my newspaper colleagues and their feedback. Even though I didn’t always like getting edited, I always felt confident about what I published. (Not to mention that was the only way to get published; as a personal blogger, I have perfect freedom…
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