There was a time (a month, actually) where I posted on this blog every day. Sure, it took signing up with National Blog Posting Month to get me to do it, but I like to believe my life was also more cooperative then.
Now, that just isn’t so, and as a frost keeps threatening to make me finally fold up my short-sleeved shirts for the season, I find I still have a stack of summer photos I had intended to have posted by now. So, it’s time to get caught up.
I …

For many years I’ve followed along as Blog Action Day rolls by. But this year I’ve joined the cause.
I have signed up to participate, which means that on Oct. 15 I pledge to write a post about climate change that to links back to Blog Action Day’s website. I’ll be joining thousands of blogs, from juggernauts like TUAW and Mashable to other low-trafficked personal blogs like my own, in writing about the cause. The only problem is, I have no idea what I’m going to write.
One of the main approaches …

This is where I always wanted to end up.
For years I struggled with creating a personal blog that I could fill with writing and music, from the experimental exercises I write or improvise on a whim, to the more polished pieces of my portfolio. One after the other, I started and shuttered blogs, until, at last, I created Work in Progress. For the past few moths I’ve filled that blog with my art, my observations and even intimate looks at my life, enjoying my morning routine of powering up my …

And so comes the glory.
I entered National Blog Posting Month in July, pledging to post every day in the month, because I was struggling with keeping this blog updated. Now, thirty one days later I can say I’ve finally created the personal blog I’ve wanted for many years now.
Here’s what I learned:
Forcing myself to post every day, usually writing the posts between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. every day – after giving my baby girl her early morning bottle – made me come up with a really great formula for …

You’ve heard me promise to update this blog more often many times here, and I also hope you’ve noticed that I’m picking up the pace. Still, I could do better, and perhaps the threat of public failure will do the trick.
I have just signed up for National Blog Posting Month, at the suggestion of bloggers for Wordpress.
The object is to write a post every single day for the month of July. If you succeed you get a little graphic that says so, that’s all.
The contest is much the popular National …