Celebrate National Honesty Day with 7 Hard Truths About Blogging

7 Hard Truths About Blogging

If April starts with fibs and trickery on April Fools Day, it should end with honesty. That’s what author M.Hirsch Goldberg was thinking in the early 1990′s when he declared April 30th National Honesty Day. What better way to celebrate than to be brutally honest with ourselves. Take a long look at your blogging efforts. [...]

My 3 Words for 2013

My Three Words for 2013

Every new year brings another chance to make the same resolutions you never keep past February… stop smoking, lose weight, spend more time with the family, and so on. As Lt. Dan’s friend in Forrest Gump (the one that “tasted like cigarettes”) put it: Don’t you just love new year’s? You can start all over. [...]

Getting Personal – Open Up to Let Your Readers In

Three blogs I read regularly had intensely personal posts by their authors within about a week of each other. I think this struck me because they came so close together, and because I could really relate to them. How willing you are to open up and get personal is entirely up to you and how [...]