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  • Ten Years of Blogging and the Struggle of Realness

    WordPress sent me a notification recently, one I really hadn’t expected, but apparently I’ve owned this site for ten whole years! That’s just crazy to think about. Looking back over my first post, it took me a while to really get comfortable with what to even blog about. I was struggling to figure out how…

  • Adorable Albino Alligators

    It’s the last Friday of the month, which means I’m back again with another We Are The World Blogfest post! It’s weird cause some months I have a ton of options for posts, but other months I find it really hard to find positive news that I want to share. I don’t know why that…

  • Why I Blog

    This post is supposed to be a talk about “who I am and why I’m here”, something that really makes more sense for an initial blog rather than one that’s been around a while. At the same time, I thought it couldn’t hurt to reflect. I did just do that a few days ago for…

  • Leaving Your Safety Net

    Found a very useful post by Kristen Lamb entitled: Go Hard or Go Home – Blogging & Branding. When I started this blog, I knew what I was going to do with it: make it my professional writing blog. And with that in mind I got a blog name that reflected that goal. I’ve spammed…

  • Creating a Professional Home

    Having lost my school based website a while back due to my graduating, I finally decided to sit down and transfer my experiences into an online portfolio.  I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time, but then while browsing around on WordPress I came across Nancy McKeand’s Professional Blog and decided it was…