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Category: Bloggenesis

The birth and development of a blog.

Blogging in spite of the fear and loathing

Posted on 26 October, 202427 October, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Hi, lovelies… It’s been a long time! It’s odd thinking about how when my kids were little, I was blogging so often that a couple of weeks between posts felt like forever. My kids are way more independent now, and yet… I seem to have more difficulty getting to the blogging. When I consider it,…

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Blog Archives – Gratitude Day 14

Posted on 14 November, 202015 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Tonight, I am grateful for this blog. Sometimes, after I’ve written a post, I reread an old blog post or several. The other day, I read about something my son said as a toddler that made me spit out my beverage with laughter – something I never would have remembered if I hadn’t written it…

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Back From the Cyber-Limbo

Posted on 27 October, 2019 by dilovelyadmin

Hi, lovelies!!! I’m really excited to be writing this, even though it’s going to be a silly, tiny post. I just have to write something. If you’ve tried to visit my blog any time in the last few-to-several months, you know that it has been SUSPENDED. (And if you haven’t tried to visit my blog…

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NINE YEARS of blogging. WHAT.

Posted on 4 November, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

Hey, Lovelies, It’s my blogiversary this weekend! Technically yesterday – November 3rd – it was nine whole years since my first blog post ever. About which I said nothing to anyone. I barely knew what a blog was, but I was inspired by my sister blogging about her experiences in Europe, and had also read…

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5-Day Artist Challenge, Day 1: Writing

Posted on 29 August, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

Okay, 5-Day Artist Challenge, here we go! In true OELC iArts fashion, I shall dedicate each of the five days to a different strand of art, and I decree that writing shall be first. Because obviously. If art is bread for the soul, writing is… let’s say sourdough. You get a starter of an idea, you…

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Authentic Voices

Posted on 9 February, 201310 February, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

I have been honoured this week by my friend lola over at bear & lion. She passed along to me the distinction of the Authentic Voice Award, for “those people who blog so transparently and with such authenticity that they are truly one of a kind”, created by Lillian at It’s a Dome Life. I…

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Narcissism on the Interwebs

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

My husband has a love-hate relationship with Facebook. He has created and deleted his account countless times. He knows that, for now, no other social media site does what Facebook does – that’s why he always ends up returning. The part he dislikes – apart from their sneaky privacy policies – is how it encourages…

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A request for moms with a story to tell (I’m lookin’ at you, NaBloPoMoers and Yeah Writers)

Posted on 17 November, 201218 November, 2012 by dilovelyadmin

As many of you already know, I am a two-timer. I have another blog besides It’s Dilovely – a blog called MotherGather, where I collect birth stories. I was inspired to start this community when I had my first child and realized how important birth and its stories are: real, unsanitized, passionate accounts of what…

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Is this what it’s like to be popular?

Posted on 7 September, 2012 by dilovelyadmin

So, lovely Di-hards, how do you like the new look? Isn’t it pretty?? I’d like to declare a huge thank you to my big brother, Uncle Ben, a.k.a. Eupharos, for taking a nice theme by NodeThirtyThree and customizing the whole thing according to my inexperienced ideas. He’s got skillz. And he’s even going to help…

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Mini-Update

Posted on 22 August, 2012 by dilovelyadmin

I was going to try to come up with a cooler title for this post than “Mini-Update”, and then I figured that a short little title was actually appropriate(r) for a mini-update, duh. (Now I’ve just gone and ruined it by using a whole long sentence to explain myself. Oh well.) The weekend before last…

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