Blogging Challenge Topic Today: Do you write like you talk? Blogging is inherently personal and therefore leaves a lot of room for your unique voice. How do you show your reader your personality through your writing? “The blogging challenge lady asked WHAT?!” came the reply from one of the voices in my head. “She wants toContinue reading “Voice(s).”
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Stats
My site really grew in viewership in February and March, and I have decent view counts for a personal blogging site now when I look at the last 30 days. In total, I’ve had 18,783 views from 3,049 visitors. Not too bad for a blog I started in mid-January. The United States is still myContinue reading “Stats”
Adversity
Today’s Blog Challenge: Write about good things that can come out of a bad situation. If you have an example from personal experience, please share! Several of the best events in my life have come out of bad situations. Certainly, some of my most memorable and proudest moments have. A few days after my highContinue reading “Adversity”
The Great Toilet Paper Evaporation of 2020
Today’s Blogging Challenge Topic: COVID-19. It’s affecting all of us in one way or another. Never in our lifetimes have we seen something of this magnitude and severity. So today, check in with yourself and your fellow competitors – how are you? Where is your head at? What’s worrying you? Let’s gather our WDC community aroundContinue reading “The Great Toilet Paper Evaporation of 2020”
Lucky or Hard-Working?
Today’s 30-day blogging challenge topic is whether successes are a matter of luck or hard work, with a link to this article: Warren Buffet is absolutely right. I am incredibly lucky to have been born into a relatively wealthy and comfortable life in the United States. I’ve had the benefit of a wonderful and freeContinue reading “Lucky or Hard-Working?”
Money
Today’s Blogging Challenge Prompt: Are you responsible with your money? Is managing your finances easy for you, or challenging? Do you ever splurge and buy something you can’t afford? I’m fairly responsible with money. It’s not that difficult when you don’t have much; it’s basically a necessity. 🙂 Managing my finances is fairly easy. I’veContinue reading “Money”
Sound
Today’s Blogging Challenge Question: Other than music, what sounds do you love? I love: The dull roar of rapids, streams or rivers; Thunder, especially rolling thunder; The satisfying crunch of stepping in snow The whir of rope uncoiling The pecking sound of rain against the fly of a tent or hood of a jacket TheContinue reading “Sound”
Patience?
Ironically, the topic for today’s blogging challenge is patience. Yeah. Something of which I have heard but manifestly do not have. My idea of patience is waiting 30 seconds for the self-checkout line at the grocery store… and even that tests it. It’s almost bearable if I’m listening to an audiobook as I wait, atContinue reading “Patience?”
German, Spanish, and Patagonia
Blog Challenge of the Day: How many languages do you speak? If you could instantly learn any language and be able to speak it fluently, what language would you pick? How would you use it and where would you go? I speak one and a half languages. I’m not good enough in German to countContinue reading “German, Spanish, and Patagonia”
Excitement!
Today’s blog challenge question is… What is your first memory of being really excited? My first memory of being really excited was at Christmas. I remember running into my parents’ room rarin’ to see my stocking. My parents would wrap odds and ends like toothpaste, lip balm, and dental floss to put in our stockings,Continue reading “Excitement!”
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