Last time I posted, it was to say that I had published an eBook on Amazon and that I was excited to see how it would progress. I also discussed that I was thinking about cutting back on my sites. As an update, in 2 weeks of publication, the book has sold 12 copies and has been read on Kindle Unlimited over 10 times. I have received 4 5 star reviews. I am so pleased with the response for what is a very personal story.But now I have the horrifying thought of "second book syndrome". I need a n

I have been doing a lot of writing and a lot of soul searching in the past few weeks. A couple of things have brought this up for me, not the least of which is my WA family. Unfortunately for my sites, my writing has not really been focused on them. When I started at WA, I chose my niche from my passion. I did a lot of writing about it, but found that it was not really a money maker. So I started a second site that was another passion that I thought would be more of a money maker. I was wr

That little number at the top of my screen? I watch that. When I started WA, my first day or so it said something like 9k+. I don't remember exactly what the widget view is set for when you are very, very low on the WA totem pole. But as I participated in chat, wrote a couple of blog posts and gained followers, my number kept going down.I didn't really know what it meant until I clicked on it and discovered it is a combination of your contributions to helping others, to creating training, an

I have gone back and forth about setting up a twitter account or not almost from my first day here at WA - 9 months now. In the beginning, I did try to set up an account, but it seemed that someone in one of the African countries had used my email address to set up a Twitter account and when I tried to get my email dis-associated from the account, I couldn't because I couldn't read the emails when I clicked on "fraudulent account". I even contacted the powers that be at Twitter and they were

I have kids. Today's avatar image is my middle child. It is her 16th birthday. In two days my son will be 18. I will have an adult child. He graduates in 3 weeks and will be off to college before I know it. What does that have to do with WA? Well, my first site that I started and took off with was gostronggirl.com having to do with parenting teenagers. Today, I wrote a post on the skills you need and tips for successfully raising a child to adulthood. it is bittersweet. I think I have