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Today I took another big step toward my commitment to returning to more old-fashioned blogging. I made the decision to cease maintaining an email list and writing a newsletter. I'm sorry I didn't let people know ahead of time. Some people only come here when they get an email notification from me so hopefully they eventually realize that they …
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I mentioned last week in Simple Living This Week No. 79 that I have decided to fully return to old-fashioned blogging. While I've toyed with this idea in the past, I've never gone all-in on completely pivoting in another direction. Sometimes change is a slow process with multiple steps and then clarity comes all at once. At least it does for …
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Three years ago I shared a list of cozy blogs I had found and followed called Cozy Blogs I'm Reading. I explained the whys and hows of the list in that post. In short, I was looking for real, old-fashioned blogs. Not sterile, professional, I'm-following-these-ten-steps-to-blog-success type blogs. The post was well-received and is still quite …
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I realize a significant number of women who now use the internet were not around for the initial rise of blogging. It's hard for a Generation X-aged writer to communicate to someone who has always been online how paradigm-shifting blogging was. But it was in many ways. It offered to average people an opportunity that had never existed before. It …
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This website has gone through so many names and approaches over the past fourteen years and, consequently, I've added and removed content regularly. Now that I've finally settled on what I'm doing (and blogging gurus can go jump in a lake), I've been going through my unpublished archives to see if there are things I should bring back. I have a …
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I wrote a few months ago about my search last summer to find old-fashioned blogs. Cozy blogs that were full of heart and personality. Blogs that were real and not driven primarily by the latest marketing tricks and blogger guru advice. Blogs that had an element of warmth to them. I have to be completely honest. I was looking for blogs that were …
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Several months ago while looking for old-fashioned blogs, I came across a new-to-me but long-time blogger who wrote about the idea that you must choose your propaganda. (Mrs. White also wrote another post about homemaking propaganda.) I've thought about the concept of propaganda in the various parts of my life since then - as a woman, as a …
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I've noticed a small but growing trend over the past several months. More and more bloggers are burned out on the professional side of blogging and are expressing a desire to return to what I would call old-fashioned blogging. If you were in the blogging world in 2005 and 2006, you will know what I mean. That was when blogging really took off …
