Because yesterday was my Wordless Wednesday Link-up, I didn’t talk about Armchair BEA’s Day 2 discussion topic, “Development,” then. But since I won’t be talking about the Day 3 topic, “Giveaways,” at all, I’m taking the opportunity to backtrack: “Day 2 we talk about how we develop ourselves as bloggers. Have you branched out into your community? Do you partner with other bloggers? Have you gone “pro” or begun supplementing your income through your blog? […]
Time: Early morning (it’s still “early” till 9 AM, right?) Place: Still in bed, writing on the iPad Eating: Nothing yet. Staying in this morning–on a kid-free Mother’s Day–and thinking about whether I want to do something different for breakfast. Gratuitous Christmas photos of our kids for Mother’s Day! Drinking: Water that got a little too warm overnight. Reading: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, this month’s She Reads Book Club selection. Also, parts of […]
I’ve added an extra day to Birthday Weekend, but I’m popping in for a minute to call your attention to some little tweaks and changes I’ve recently made to the blog. I didn’t participate in the Spring Bloggiesta, but it did inspire me to make a few updates and changes around here. If you’re reading this post via e-mail or a feed reader (have you found one to replace Google Reader yet?), I invite you […]
The women of Generation Fabulous are out to show that the internet isn’t just for kids (and their moms). I’ve been part of this “voices of midlife” community for a few months, and it’s grown too big for Facebook to hold it any more. Founding members Sharon Greenthal, Chloe Jeffreys, and Anne Parris have just built GenFab its own little bit of online real estate, and it’s opening the doors to host the group’s monthly […]
March is Women’s History Month, and Becca at Lost in Books is hosting a Women’s Lit Event all month long as part of the celebration. I’ll be dropping by there twice–I’m making my first visit today, with a review of a modern feminist speculative fiction classic. Please visit me over there, and join the conversation at Lost in Books! Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive […]
This weekend, The 3 R’s Blog turns six years old! (And it’s not the only one–Happy Blogiversary to my same-age blogging siblings It’s All About Books and Word Lily, too!) My fifth blogiversary was a three-post extravaganza. This one’s a bit more subdued, and comes at a time of major reassessment for the blogiverse-at-large. You’ve probably heard this about this in many places over the last few days, but just in case you’ve managed to miss […]
My sixth blogiversary is this weekend. I’m not planning a big blowout for this one, but I’ll be marking the occasion in the Sunday Salon. I hope you’ll stop by then to share some reminiscing and reflecting with me! When I started doing my thing here, Facebook had only recently opened up to people who weren’t still living in dorms, a “tweet” was the sound a bird makes, and all “the kids” were on MySpace. […]
I’ve lived close to 40% of my life in places that don’t have four distinct seasons, and winter has always been the one most noticeably absent. My teen and college years in Florida were summerlike for about ten and a half months a year, including most of the months we were in school. I’ve lived in Southern California for the last decade, and while I really do appreciate the appeal of the mild climate–and my […]
I usually do a little year-end number-crunching in the process of coming up with my Books of the Year, but this year I decided to share those before I put up the stats. However, before I get to the Bookkeeping, I have answers to some questions from the “Book Blogging/Reading Life” section of Jamie‘s annual End-of-Year Book Survey. Favorite review that you wrote in 2012? If I leave my Books of the Year reviews out […]
I’m not much for New Year’s Resolutions, because I don’t think there’s anything particularly sacred about January 1 as a benchmark for starting good habits, ending bad ones, or making general life changes. Therefore, the first item on my list is: Revisit, re-evaluate, and recommit to the following twelve items on this list as often as necessary, even if it’s several times a day. And with that out of the way, here’s what I want […]
This isn’t an official “Year in Review” post, because I feel like it’s still a little early for me to go there, but it is a bit of a rehearsal for it. I haven’t done much in the way of taking stock this year, so I feel a need to get my bearings. Part of that need comes from a sense that, particularly for the last few months, I haven’t done much bloggish, period. This was […]
I’ll be honest: I didn’t have particularly strong reasons for wanting to attend Creative Alliance ‘12. The strongest was probably that Kim Tracy Prince is one of my personal influencers, and she’d been lauding the inaugural Creative Alliance retreat ever since she participated in 2010. Other points in its favor were that it was small (attendance was capped at 50), almost local (Ojai, California is just about an hour’s drive from home), mostly unsponsored, and […]
