Archive for May 14th, 2009
On-Message/Off-Message
After a few months of blogging, I had a frank phone chat with Steph at Back in Skinny Jeans (one of the first blogs I’d ever read religiously) about paid advertising and blogging.
She’s fantastic and I might be speaking with her on a panel at the BlogHer 2009 Conference … still waiting to hear!
Anyway, we talked about being true and authentic to yourself, and how blogging gives you the opportunity to make 100 percent of your own decisions. You’re your own boss, your own editor … the content is yours to decide upon, the images, the timing … it’s all up to you.
This means you can choose to accept advertising … or not. You can choose to accept guest posts … or not. (more…)
12 comments May 14, 2009
Resilience
The title of Elizabeth Edwards’s new book, Resilience, speaks volumes about the life she’s been living and the life many of us here are trying to live: one in which we bounce back from adversity of some kind.
Between the untimely death of her (then) 16-year old son, to her cancer diagnoses (plural), to her husband’s infidelity …. the woman knows the word “resilience.”
I watched her interview on Larry King the other night, and aside from my heart breaking for her (knowing her life will undoubtedly be cut short), I couldn’t help but be inspired by her ability to turn awful situations into positives.
Regardless of my thoughts of whether or not this was the time to pen such a book, or whether she should have stayed with her husband or not (I’ll refrain from such judgment, since the mainstream media’s doing such a good job of that analysis 
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… You have to admit, this is a woman who has been dealt three decks of cards that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy: loss of a child, terminal cancer and a cheating spouse (while she was in treatment, no less!) (more…)
2 comments May 14, 2009
