It’s 0612, and I am just beginning to see sunrise peek over the horizon. I dreaded this summer, for I knew that I would feel like i was existing in a pressure cooker.
Our son, the child of so many prayers, went to Army Basic Combat Training at the tender age of 17 between his junior and senior years. 10 weeks, and 800 miles, y’all
My precious 90-year-old mother is no longer able to live independently at the assisted living where she had lived 5 years, so I had to move her out and find a nursing home near me. Did I mention that she struggles with hoarding? Yeah….
Her home in Hot Springs was attacked by an R.O.U.S. (rodent of unusual size, for all those non-Princess Bride fans). My Dearest Keith repaired the area 3 times. And we started the cleanout process to sell it.
Attempting to jump on the real estate gravy train, we continued to renovate our very first house in order to sell it. We finished 2 bedrooms with new paint and flooring and are looking forward to working on the bathrooms.
All of this has been so rewarding.
What did I learn? Trust and obedience are necessary to weather change. God reminded me that He would carry me through the deep, and he would walk me through the pain, bur i just didn’t want to. Now I’m on the other side. How did that happen?
He reminded me that he would do that for me every time, but I need to quit taking the easy way out, the path of least resistance. I won’t experience Him in the easy streets. I experience Him in the jungle, in the fear of the unknown, and He takes me there so that He can show me that He is a god who is able! And i will be a witness of His watchcare.
Good day! This is kind of off topic but I need some help
from an established blog. Is it difficult to set up your
own blog? I’m not very techincal but I can figure things out pretty
fast. I’m thinking about setting up my own but
I’m not sure where to start. Do you have any points or suggestions?
Cheers
Hi,
Thank you for writing. Learning to set up your own blog is not difficult, and I believe that you can do it free with blogger.com or WordPress, either one.
One of the choices you need to figure out is your niche, or your subject. Think about what experiences you have had, good or bad. What type of overarching message would you like to get across to your audience?
Another concern is to whom you are writing. Who is your audience? Stay-at-home-mothers? College students? Home-schooling parents? You can’t write for everyone, so decide the person you want to read your writing to. This is called your “avatar”–a representative of the reader, and the one for whom you tailor your blog posts.
Graphics connect your message to your audience, so take pictures. Don’t use pictures online because unless you are absolutely sure that it is free, you must pay for the picture and the right to use it. Therefore, keep it simple, pull out your phone and start clicking.
Also, read blogs on the same topics that you want to write. Notice the topics the writers choose. How they get started. Do you want to (a.) write a post to share information? (b.) Share directions or write a “How-to” post like a recipe? What about something (c.) descriptive? (d.) A story of something that happened to you? (e.) Comparing two things, like jobs, husbands, or gardening techniques? Maybe you feel the need to explain (f.) why you feel something strongly? Another type of post could be showing (g.) examples of a description to the audience.
Let’s take a topic like food. Maybe you want to create a blog on easy, healthy, recipes, and your audience is young women. Your overarching idea you want to get across is that eating well doesn’t have to be expensive. Referring back to the different types of posts, these could be topics to write for your blog.
(a.) When to do your shopping for the freshest of ingredients.
(b.) How to plan meals and shop with coupons
(c.) Describe shopping for your week’s menu using just a farmer’s market, no supermarket.
(d.) Tell the story of how you weaned yourself off of sugar
(e.) Contrast the difference between canning fruit and canning vegetables
(f.) Support your choice to become vegetarian with reasons why it works for you and your family.
(g.) Explain what characteristics make food “clean”.
I hope these tips help you to decide how you want to frame your blog. After you decide on the subject of your blog, the overarching message you want to get across to your audience, the audience you want to write for, you will be able to have enough parameters to help you come up with a name for the blog. Do a search to see if it has already been claimed as a site before claiming it for your own. In some cases, you might need to buy the name for your own. That prevents others from taking for themselves.
Let me know how you are doing! I’ll be glad to come over and read your posts.
From my heart,
Janet
Good day! I could have sworn I’ve been to this site before but after looking at many of the posts I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m certainly happy I stumbled upon it and I’ll be book-marking it and checking back often!
Good morning,Doretta!
Thank you for reading my posts. More are coming soon. If you would consider spreading the word about them, I would be most grateful.
Hope to talk to you again soon. Take care, and God bless.
Janet