Finding Your Roots and Keeping Them
I’m thrilled to welcome Linda Austin for this month’s guest blog. As with all my guests so far this year, I first met Linda through the web of social media. I was immediately smitten by her story of … Read More
Writers’ Process Blog Tour
Tag. You’re it! Remember that? Well, that old game came back to me last week when Kathy Pooler of Memoir Writer’s Journey tagged me in her post of May 29 and essentially said, “you’re it.” She said it … Read More
Turns Out We DO Judge a Book by Its Cover
“You can’t judge a book by its cover.” They say (whoever “they” are). Well, turns out we do it all the time. As a result, choosing the cover for my book is a critical part of … Read More
Transportation – The path between worlds: Carol Bodensteiner
I’m pleased to have Carol Bodensteiner join us this month. But, in the interest of full disclosure, I will admit that for nearly the first year that I was active in social media, I got Carol confused with … Read More
My multitasking social media experiment: Week 1
As promised, I am reporting this week on my little experiment to stop multitasking. Read about it here if you missed it. The week began with my wanting to rethink the whole concept of automatic multi-tasking on social … Read More
Effective Multi-tasking is an Oxymoron
I’ve been thinking of this blog all week, since the last of my pre-scheduled posts went live on April 30. And April 30 was also my first day home after a week in Ohio where I … suffice it … Read More
From Insanity to Serenity: Kathy Pooler
Cultural differences, as I love to point out, are all around us. Depending upon where and how we grew up, the ways in which we view the world — even among Americans — can vary tremendously. What we see … Read More
A Little Fish in a Mennonite Sea: Shirley Hershey Showalter
This week I’m pleased to have Shirley Showalter here to share her story. I first met Shirley from afar. I’d jumped into the social media whirl as I finished my memoir and was searching for connections. At Shirley’s website I … Read More
Writer’s Block
Sunday afternoons are often spent writing my upcoming blog. Sometimes, if all is flowing smoothly, I get two or three blogs out and scheduled for their respective Wednesdays. Today, however, for the first time since I began … Read More