Tag: blogging
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What I’ve Been Thinking About, Lately
I’ve been thinking about the marble that used to scroll across the top of my Expage back in 1999. I’ve been thinking about running. I’ve been thinking about hiking. Or rather turning myself into a hiker. I’ve been thinking about Antarctica. Both the continent and the one my son and I made from magic clay.…
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20 Things I’m Really Doing During Social Media Hiatuses
I recently wrote a post about Silencing the Internal Pressure to Be the Blogger I’m Not, and that wasn’t even the article I set out to write that day. I planned to sit down and write this slightly self-deprecating list of all of the things I do instead of work on my blog, create new…
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Silencing the Internal Pressure to be the Blogger I’m Not
Blogging has been my hobby for two decades now. I mean that quite literally. And during these past twenty years, blogging evolved from inane ramblings on personal websites built on Geocities to polished content creation with the unstated intent to sell something to the readers. It could be a lifestyle. It could be a self-published…
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Books & Tea Celebrates FIVE Years
It just dawned on me that it’s my blogoversary. I actually don’t know what day I officially launched my blog, just that it was an otherwise listless day back in January 2011. I was tidying things up around here, and at the time I couldn’t figure out how my introductory post contributed to my blog, so…
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A Work in Progress
Work took Jon to Alabama this weekend, and I found myself alone in the apartment without a voice of reason. This is how I am accepting the fact that I once again decided to give Books & Tea a makeover, I just spent $100 at Joanne Fabrics on a craft I have zero experience with, and…
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By Golly, Ollie! 