Blog Ideas - lots of them!

 September 6, 2021

Do you ever get stuck on what to blog about?  I sure do and have.  So I was messing around on Google and found this really interesting book: Blog ideas: 131 Ideas to Kill Writer's Block, Super Charge Your Blog and Stand out by Steve Alvest.  So I bought it for my kindle on Amazon and I don't earn money from the link.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY ONE IDEAS???   Really?  Well some of them are about where to host your blog, how to monetize it, getting guest bloggers to write a blog and you post it on your blog.  I did that a couple of times and it was fun.  There are free places to get graphics and photos to post, finding a domain name and much more.  Basically it's about how to start a blog make it work for you.  He even says that you can write a book from a blog. 

 

I have filled notebooks from over 50 years of journaling.  I started writing them right before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.  Many of the early pages are dated and numbered.  I've been debating about shredding them so no one will have to read them. Yes I said have to read them. Of course if it was my mother's or grandmother's I would want to read every page. But I don't think my son or Granddaughter would want to.  I remember after my mother died my step father started tossing all of her stuff out.  I don't want that to happen to my journals.  But yes I sense there is some gold in them and possibly a book. But do I want to? I don't know.  It just feels heavy like do I want to read through them for a gem or three and re-live them?  Back when I was in an astrology class, my teacher suggested I get rid of them to release the energy that's in them. This was years ago.  As a fixed Taurus sun and Scorpio moon person, releasing is not my greatest talent.  

I also have all the letters that my husband and I wrote to each other after we met and married.  I'm not sure I want to re read them either but I do sense a book possibility.

Alvest suggests refresh your old content.  Go back over your old blogs and update them. I did a little bit of that and some of the videos I posted are gone.  Yes it's time consuming and we certainly don't need to do it.

Chapter 5 starts the good part - Ideas For Blog Posts.

Tell people what you think.

Recap a mistake you made.

Write how to blogs.

Provoke Controversy.

Hold a Contest.

There are so many more ideas in this book.  

What ideas can you come up with for writing blogs?  Most of you who are blogging this September with Effy have really good ideas and it's such fun reading your blogs.  

Happy Blogging and thank you for reading mine.

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Twelve Days Ago

 Here it is twelve days since I blogged.  I finished thirty days of blogging and loved it so much that I wonder why I wasn't keeping up with it.  I don't know.  Maybe it was because my birthday and Mother's day came during those twelve days and I don't really like either one of them.  I know, sacrilegious huh!  I have a great son who I face timed with on Mother's Day.  And I like myself mostly, so it isn't that I don't like my birthday.  It's just that we're supposed to celebrate the day somehow.  Like on my FB page, I got almost 200 Happy BD likes and most of them said "enjoy the day". I loved them, I really felt wrapped in a nice, warm loving blanket.   But what does that "enjoy your day" mean? Take myself out to eat? Watch a movie, read a book, buy myself flowers...?  Before Covid we'd go out to eat and that was always fun.  Asiana, the Chinese buffet in Asheville always gave a free meal on our birthdays.  We love that place, so much to choose from, so that was where we'd go. But the last two years no buffets.   Even though I'm fully vaccinated I still don't feel completely safe eating inside a restaurant.  Thank goodness for takeout's.  I did get my Culver's fix though. Butter burgers, French fries and onion rings.  Yum.  

A friend gave me a gift card to Amazon that I always use for books on my kindle. That is my favorite gift. I'm not a buying flowers type of person though. They do smell pretty, that's for sure.  

  I use my Barnes and Noble credit card to buy take out food. When I reach a certain number of points I get a Barnes and Noble gift card for $25.  I have 2 of them so it's been fun to look through their web site.  I'm thinking of getting a second pack of Radleigh Valentine's Angel Wisdom Tarot cards for more learning and practicing.  I love these cards. Not only are the images beautiful but they are so easy to shuffle. 

 Barnes and Noble have a lot of art books and blank journals.  I could buy these online but I love browsing in the store.   Actually I need to get rid of books.  The print is getting too small to read and I'm thinking of donating a lot of them.  So why go to a book store and buy more? Hmm..  Large Print books are so expensive though. I'm glad for my kindle.  

So maybe I won't want twelve days to write another blog.  Until the next one... 

Thirty Blogs in 30 Days - Day 30

 April 30, 2021 I've blogged every day with a fabulous, creative group of bloggers from Effy's Blog along.  The last time I blogged with the group I struggled what to write about. This time was much easier and more fun.  I would like to continue daily blogging but will I do it alone? I don't know.  I have a feeling it will be easier not to.  Yet this wasn't difficult.
Thank you Effy for providing this for us. I've enjoyed reading the blogs and writing them.

In six days I turn 85.  That's 595 in dog years.  As a child we had no televisions.  We listened to stories on the radio and made up the pictures in our heads. 

  When we picked up the phone to call someone the operator said, "number please" and we had to give her the number we wanted to call.  Our phone numbers were 3 digits.  We had a party line too, where if we picked up the phone to call, the person on the party line might be talking, so we had to hang up and wait our turn.

I lived through a lot of wars and have noticed war has not brought us closer to peace.  Wouldn't it have been wonderful if all the war money had been spent to make this world a better, safer place.  Maybe someday people will wake up. I remember the air raid sirens going off and we had to turn off all the lights and pull down the dark drapes.  My aunt was an air raid warden and would go out when the sirens went off to do her duty whatever that was.

We survived polio through vaccinations.  We survived measles, whooping cough, mumps, chicken pox and now Corona virus! 

I don't have a bucket list.  An astrologer said I would live until my middle 80s.  I'm not afraid to be dead, I just hope I die easy.  My husband is 30 days younger and our astrology charts are similar.  We both have Pluto opposition Pluto. Many people don't experience this because it takes Pluto 248 years to orbit the sun.  So the astrologers aren't sure what we're in for.  Ha ha.  Neither am I.  It does mean complete transformation.  At the same time I have the planet of quick changes - Uranus next to my Taurus sun.  Taurus does not like changes and this Uranus loves shaking up things.  I know what it means but not how it will play out in my life.  Luckily I'm curious.

I took to the computer, the internet like a duck takes to water and I am so glad.   From a childhood with no tv to an old lady enjoying social media, being on zoom, cell phones, online games - what a trip!

What's been my purpose on earth? I'm not sure.  Bravery, courage, my silly sense of humor, showing love, inspiring others, hopefully?  

I have over 60 years of filled journals.  The ink has faded so I can't read a lot of it.  I'm trying to figure out what to do with them.  Keep or toss? I've felt both strongly at times but they're still here. Maybe I should keep them and blog them.  Hmmmm, I don't think so... maybe bits and pieces?

I just found a check my grandfather wrote to someone in July 1917.  

What's next?  I doubt if I'll see world peace in my lifetime.  I believe in reincarnation and if you think about it, the people who didn't believe in Global warming could come back to live in another body in the middle of the aftermath.  

Ok folks that's all for today.  Thank you all for posting your blogs. I've enjoyed reading them. Thank you for commenting on mine.

Hugs and remember your angels love you now and forever...