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The Monkbot has arrived at my home for a visit!  My teens were quite perplexed that their mom would get so excited about it.  The most exciting thing was opening the box.  The Monkbot was carefully packaged for his travel from Canada.  The box was also fun to look at, with its many stickers from around the world.  Too bad I haven’t taken any photos; the day before it arrived, my darling eldest child dropped my new-ish digital camera.  Then I was hit with a bad head cold.  So, the Monkbot and I have not yet toured the city, but I have plans for this weekend…just the two of us! Well, maybe I’ll invite my hubby, too.
Shelley, who keeps the Monkbot blog, made an appearance today.  She has been on hiatus and is sorely missed by many.  She checks in today with an account of her past few weeks in Gashes, Mold, Raw Sewage, and Apparent Brain/Mouth Disconnect…An Update on the Status of Shelley.  Shelley is a talented writer, both of stories and songs, as well as a gifted singer.  She’s had a bad day or two, lately, but manages to pick up my spirits in telling me her tale.

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I found a great video from my college days. Actually, its a funny video from Jib Jab that you can customize fairly easily and quickly. Watch my attempt here: http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/873535

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I never had the nerve to do much after college. I moved back home, got a job as a manager at Lancer’s, did some substitute teaching and waited for Rob to finish college. Not Andy Polley! Here’s what he decided to do: [Read more →]

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Most people who keep blogs do it because they enjoy it. However, most of us also get to a point where we ask ourselves whether it is a good use of our time. I’ve been to that point and am happy to say that I do believe that it is a good use of my time, although I certainly have scaled back from my initial blogging efforts. I read an interesting article this morning that is a good reminder of how to approach blogging. It is written by a journalist, Amy Gahran for the Poynter Institute, for other journalists, but the idea applies to any blogger:

This morning a colleague asked me a question that I hear from many people, especially journalists: “How can I blog without making it a time sink?” It seems to me that the key to blogging efficiently is this: DO NOT treat it like writing an article. That is, make blogging part of your ongoing processes for research, notetaking, and communication. A blog post is not (or at least, it shouldn’t be) a writing assignment you must prep for and deliver as a finished package. Let go of the idea that you must have everything nailed down, organized, and edited before you publish. Here are some specific ways to accomplish that mindset and habit switch…

Be sure to read the rest of Amy’s article, Blogging without the time sink.  Thanks, too, to all of you that keep the blogs I enjoy reading.  Most of you are like me, blogging as the spirit moves you or blogging your way through thoughts, ideas, problems and experiences.  I also appreciate the few of us who take the effort to keep a daily and informative blog.  I do try to keep updated links of your blogs.  If your blog is to the right, I have read your posts and enjoy your blog!  I am way behind on my links, though.

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