With the close of National Poetry Month, I feel a sense of accomplishment. I was able to write a poem a day and match it to one of my photos. I posted those here, and to my Facebook Page, and some to Medium.com Other writing accomplishments for April were having two boosted stories on Medium.com….
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Poetry Friday: Remembering Mom
It is Poetry Friday! If you want to know what Poetry Friday is check out this explanation from Renee M. LaTulippe. Today, our host is Linda Mitchell on her blog A Word Edgewise. who is offering a clunker challenge. I’m in! Thank you for hosting, Linda! I wrote a post of gratitude yesterday for all…
Poetry Friday: A Sign From Mom
Today is Poetry Friday. Our host is the creative Molly Hogan at Nix the Comfort Zone. Please visit her blog for more poetry and posts! Thanks for hosting Molly! As most of you know, my mom passed away on July 31st. She was 85 years old. I spent August 1-14th with my Dad at their…
Poetry Friday: A Poem and Blog Updates For My WordPress and Medium Sites Including a Give Away!
What’s Coming Up? I am having a book give away! My book birthday for my poetry chapbook, Life’s Inspiration and Reflection in a Few Words, is this Saturday May 6th! Do you have a copy? Would you leave a review on Amazon for it in exchange for a chance to win a $20.00 Barnes and…
A Summary of March Blogs on Medium & WordPress: What does the Future Hold?
March has been a great month for my articles on Medium.com. After a very slow February where I barely made the partnership fee of $5.00 from my revenue, March ended up being very different – so far bringing in six times that amount – my highest income ever off the site. What was the difference…
Month By Month: A Year In Review, 2022
Usually, I do some year-end reviews on my blog. Earlier this month, I posted a top ten book review – the link is at the end of the post. I also posted on a December 20th Medium blog that 2022 was a year for transitions for me. Some of what I wrote there will be…
The Challenges of Blogging Daily
As many know, I’ve been splitting my writing time between two blogs for the last three months. I am still posting here, on WordPress, and I also have a page on Medium.com just using my name. You can search for it that way if you wish. Otherwise, I’ll post a link here for you to…
A New Milestone: 1800 Posts
Earlier this week, I promised I’d write about some recent milestones. Today, I am writing my 1800th post on my WordPress blog, The Apples in My Orchard! Eighteen hundred posts! Wow! Since I’ve been writing daily since the end of February 2017, it’s been almost five and a half years of posting. It’s not quite…
Foodie Monday: Favorite Flavor and a Few Changes for August
It’s August 1st! How the heck did that happen? It’s been a busy six months! In February we decided to put our home of 16 years up for sale but wait until spring to do it. In the meantime, we started cleaning out. When we met with realtors, we decided on listing the first week…
Slice of Life: Living in the Rural but Beautiful Northwoods of Wisconsin
We’ve only been here since Friday. ‘Here’ is at our cabin in north-central Wisconsin. We built the cabin in 2005 after purchasing the land in 2001. We own 2 acres of lakefront property on which we built a timber frame cabin. My husband designed the cabin by researching timber-frame homes, building a scale model of…