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Blogging Journal-Month 7

Published August 9th, 2008

Another month has gone by in a blur!  Some big changes happened in my life in July, and many wonderful things happened with Value For Your Life as well–just completely different from what I’d planned! 
The good stuff 
Always start with the positive.  In July, the blog saw an all-time record for visitors, according to Awstats almost 15,000 of you [...]

Blogging Journal (Month 6)

Published July 2nd, 2008

What a month it has been.  I have many things to tell you about, so many in fact that I can’t type fast enough!  I’ve accomplished most of last month’s blogging goals:  I re-vamped the home page and successfully managed to add a form for readers to subscribe by email.  I’m so glad I did this [...]

Blogging Journal (Month 5)

Published June 7th, 2008

Change…change…change.  This last month had many, many ups and downs.  With having to put little Shadow to sleep (you can read more about his battle with cancer in the Animals section), and dealing with the aftermath, many things ground to a halt.  I continued to post maybe once a week, but not much had happened with the [...]

Value of Life

Published May 19th, 2008

Over the last couple of months I’ve really sat down and analyzed my statistics carefully to try to get to know my readers better, where they come from and what it is they’re looking for when they come here (not many people leave comments yet).  This three word phrase “Value of Life” is the most common search term [...]

Blogging Journal (Month 4)

Published April 28th, 2008

Hard to believe it’s the end of April already.  I’m four months into this project, and some interesting things are continuing to happen.  There’s a lot going on with my family and little Shadow (he had a setback last week, but that’s a whole other post), so I’ve not carved out enough time for writing the last [...]

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