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Joining the syndicate

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Syndicated on BlogHer.com

I’ve submitted a couple of posts for syndication at BlogHer in the past, but they’ve never been interested in any of my stuff. It’s been quite a while since I’ve submitted anything, so I was surprised and excited a few weeks ago to get an out-of-the-blue email from BlogHer asking if they could syndicate the post I wrote about blogging after the Type-A Conference on their site. And I didn’t even submit it! Maybe the secret is playing hard to get.

You can read the slightly retitled post on BlogHer at “Why Should I Keep Blogging with Low Stats?“

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On relationships and money

As much as I love date night, pretty much everything in I Don’t Believe in Date Night at The Conversation describes how Rockford and I try to do things. Except that he really does hate to go to bed angry, so we try not to do that.

I’ve loved this man since we were kids. Ours is a relationship that our friends hold up as an example of happiness, equality, love, friendship… and most of the time, I understand why. And I can tell you, it’s not because of date nights. It’s because of regular nights. … It can be Monday, it can be meatloaf, we can be talking about the mortgage. But it’s always meaningful. And more importantly, it’s routine. We do it all the time.
via Laura at Hollywood Housewife

Jenn Mattern, just writing the lights out in How to Go to the Bank.

But Bank Guy is already making a beeline for his overstuffed chair. You are messy, too messy and middle-aged to remember. You have become that woman, somehow, in the span of a few short years. Your daughters are more vibrant and beautiful by the day, while you are grow heavier with doubt and fear and anxiety and all of the things you dare not say.

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MomComm gives me some constructive criticism

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When Mel at MomComm started offering blog critiques, I kind of wanted to sign up for one. But I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to be critiqued, and then her queue filled up and stayed full forever. She offered a lot of great advice in her critiques, though, and it made me wish I hadn’t been so averse to criticism.

So when she asked for another wave of blogs to critique, I signed up. This time she’s looking at specific pages; today, she’s focused on my About page.

As always, Mel has a lot of great advice, and it’s stuff that’s applicable to any blog. She suggested, for example, that I change my permalink structure — that’s the stuff after butterscotchsundae.com/ in the location bar up there — to make things more SEO-friendly. Another web-savvy friend suggested I do that some time ago, but I’m wary. I’m afraid it’ll break my web site.

I’m not afraid of any of the other suggestions, though. They’re just going to take a little time and effort to rearrange and rewrite some things.

Thanks for the advice, Mel!