So, the path to pro-blogging is through mucho advertising, paid blogging on somebody else’s site, becoming a consultant or the most popular among the mom bloggers, paid spokesmommying for a product or service. Of course, there’s always porn, but let’s pretend there isn’t. How to go pro is a popular topic at blogging conferences. It’s money [...]

So, I was at Blissdom this weekend, and the aim was to soak up as much knowledge about the blogging, writing, social media, advertising, and blog whoring as possible. But, in truth, I had another agenda as my prime focus. To ask women who are focusing on making money online Just How in The Ever [...]

My apologizies to email subscribers of the Boonie Blog. You are getting links to old posts and I have no idea how to fix it. It seems Feedburner gets un poco loco when you transfer a feed from one site to another and regurgitates the past. I have found several complaints in their help forum, [...]

Last month, I wondered aloud where all the Latina bloggers are hiding and introduced a round-up that unveiled some awesomeness. Well, now some ladies in Atlanta are planning a gathering for women of color who blog. Blogalicious will be held in October. Atlanta is just four hours from Nashville, so I’m planning to be there. Ven [...]

The Latina blogger link list up, down there to the right. You’ll notice my Cubana friends have their own separate category and so some of them are blog linked twice. Cubanitas,  I may edit you out of the Latina list and leave you in your own little space. Not sure.  But anyway, it has been [...]

Fabulous Shoe by Secret-Agent-Mama Shoes are very important at a blog conference. Fabulous shoes. Women blog about their shoes, and post photos, even before they arrive. And, then they compliment and photograph each others shoes. A lot. One person admired the awesome boots I was wearing. I got them at a sample sale held by [...]

I spent a very nice and educational couple of days at the Blissdom blog conference here in Nashville. Me, and about 250 women from around the country. Mostly mom bloggers and some rock star mom bloggers like this lady and this lady. I’ll soon have a whole list of others for you and details about some [...]

There is a man in cyberworld who is collecting letters from mothers to mothers to present to his wife on Christmas Day. Sweet, right? He is anonymous, but he’s had success in gathering women around the blogosphere to write The Mother Letter. He’s got nearly 500. I’m going to write one and I am telling [...]

I hope you’re all brunched up. I received a hand-drawn card from Maria: She and I in a field with flowers and blue sky and a blue heart.Her teacher took the dictation: “I love my mommy because I do different things with her: Folding towels, eating ice cream and more.” Heart-breakingly delightful. Last week, I [...]