Blogging
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I sit here thinking about writing another post and I’m torn; I have so much to say, too much actually.
I wonder about over-sharing, about letting my battle with cancer consume my blog the way it has consumed my life.
I wonder about how this blog will change over the coming year.
I miss the frivolous, light-hearted posts I used to write; my monthly letters to my daughter have taken on a new significance in the past couple months.
So, about this breast cancer diagnosis…
I’ve been thinking about the direction and purpose of my blog in relation to this breast cancer diagnosis. When I first found out I was pregnant with my daughter, I swore I would not let CoffeeJitters turn into a mommy blog. It took about a month to figure out that idea was a little ridiculous. […]
Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change
Blog Action Day While we represent less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States is in the unique position of both being a world leader in greenhouse gas emissions and a world leader in clean energy technology. We are among the best and the worst. This December the world’s leaders will come together […]
What I’m Reading
Here is what I’ve been reading this week. Made Me Laugh The World According to Americans This map of the world is too funny (and a little too true). Plants vs. Zombies OK, I’ll admit I started reading Jorge Garcia’s blog because I’m a fan of LOST, and I just want to hug Hurley. But […]
Writers’ Workshop: Why I Blog, or Don’t
I keep meaning to play along with MamaKat and her weekly writing workshops, but I never seem to be able to make it happen. Then this prompt came along, and I decided it was time to put in print all those excuses floating around in my head. 3.) What have you been busy doing that’s […]
The Secret is in the Sauce
I get to be queen for a day! Today I’m the featured blogger at The Secret is in the Sauce. The news came as quite a shock – I’ve been slacking a bit on the blog since the baby was born. This sure got me motivated to get back to writing! The posts that are […]
Bleeding Espresso makes it to finalist round in the 2009 Bloggies
Michelle Fabio, an American writer and attorney leaves the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania for her family’s ancestral village in Calabria, Italy, falls in love, gets two dogs, writes to her heart’s content and begins bleeding espresso. No, really.
Simply the Best
… The goal is for each blogger to scour their posts over the past year and identify the one post that they believe is their best writing of the year. Then, write a post about that best post with a link to it and complete the sentence “This post is simply the best because…” in 30 words or less. [Read More]
What is an RSS Feed, and Why Should I Care?
A really simple breakdown: RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. To further simplify that, RSS takes blog posts and news updates (called feeds) and broadcasts them across the internet. RSS readers (websites or programs also called feed readers or aggregators) can then collect the feeds to which the reader has subscribed and present them in […]
Google Search Terms
Every once in a while a visit to Google Analytics will provide some data that I’m not quite sure how to process Here’s a sample of search terms that turned up for CoffeeJitters: how to get rid of coffee jitters (ahem, seriously people!) shooting dad did you lose something its business night happy hour left […]