Writing

My Top Ten (2010)

by Kathy on October 16, 2013 · 0 comments

in Decisions, Inspiration, Top Ten Lists, Writing

After making annual Top Ten lists the past few years, in preparation for choosing my favorite of my own posts to submit to Melissa Ford’s annual Creme de la Creme list, I decided to go back and create them for the previous years I blogged. I thought it would be fun for me and others to be able to get […]

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The 8th Annual Creme de la Creme list opened for submissions yesterday. Two years ago, when I started looking through my posts to pick one to submit for the 2011 Creme, I struggled to decide which to choose as my favorite. I was very motivated and inspired to write that year, so I felt that I had […]

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My mom calls them peak life experiences and my friend Lori refers to them as perfect moments. Either way, last night was filled with them. I spent a rare evening with just my mom and dad. We ate at one of my favorite hometown restaurants, Prairie Moon. I ordered my favorite meal there (of course) […]

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I’m Syndicated on BlogHer!

by Kathy on August 13, 2013 · 2 comments

in BlogHer, Inspiration, Writing

One of my recent posts, about the blogging voices we fill, was chosen for syndication on BlogHer! Today it went live in the Blogging and Social Media section. This is the second time I have had a post syndicated on BlogHer and I feel honored to have this opportunity again. My original post was called Everybody needs a… I […]

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There was an awesome moment during the BlogHer’13 Anatomy of a Story panel on Saturday when Vikki said, “Everybody needs a gay… and so I always think about, when I write on my blog, that I’m the gay for people that don’t have one.” People started laughing and tweeting what she said, because it was a great […]

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“You can’t boil the ocean, if you try to, your life/blog becomes generic.” ~  Maria Ross That is my biggest takeaway from BlogHer`13. I heard it towards the beginning of Pathfinder Day, in the Keynote One to One with Maria Ross and Lesley Pinckney. Maria, a brand strategist, author, speaker and brain aneurysm survivor, has so […]

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