I had a way-too-long post planned about how my blog became… well, my blog — all in honor of my blogging anniversary. This Friday, June 14th, my blog turns nine. To celebrate, I was going to write from a prompt called “Tell Us the Story Behind Your Blog.” When you have a blog, you have… Continue reading How This Became THIS
So here’s the deal: I’m moving to a new (free) WordPress this month. Because I can’t afford $300 a year to run a blog where I write words and make very little, unreliable income from Google AdSense, Amazon, or Collective Bias—on the rare occasions they pick me. I can afford $30 a year to keep… Continue reading An Offer I Can’t Refuse
One of my goals at the end of each year is to publish a blog post that summarizes the preceding year in terms of how it pertains to the blog. I chose to make it interesting for you since I am concerned that reading a post like that may bore the hell out of you.… Continue reading How People Found My Blog in 2018
I'm not starting another blog anytime soon—I can hardly come up with enough interesting content for the one I already have. However, over the past eight years, I've casually mentioned several names that would make excellent blog titles, like “That Would Make an Excellent Blog Name” or “If I Ever Start a Niche Blog, I… Continue reading My Top Seven Blog Names If I Ever Start Another Blog
So here I am, writing posts and articles for my other job on a lazy Saturday afternoon, when suddenly I get the stupidest brainstorm known to man. Backstory: I was creating graphics for my blog on Canva (a site full of free DIY graphics) when I started noticing all these nonsensical situations playing out in… Continue reading Creating Idiotic Canva and Pic Monkey Graphics
Recently, I started noticing other blogs’ headers. I mean, doesn't everyone? A few days later, I was poking around on Etsy and realized people actually sell blog header packages. Like, this is a whole thing. A market! For headers! Who knew? The prices were around $30 for a “package,” but I didn’t inquire… Continue reading How To Make a Blog Header Without Really Trying
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