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Despair Where Once Lived Hope
The human race has failed us. We had a moment of glory when we gave birth to the grand idea of the Internet*. This changed the world in the most significant ways, and for a while there, it felt like it was the greatest gift we could have given ourselves. I remember a slice of…
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How Did I Miss This? Eye-Opening Day
Warning: Everything you read here will sound alarmist and melodramatic. I apologize for that. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t justified. For the last few years, I have wondered how our country has turned into what it is today. How did we become so completely divided, but more than that, how did we turn the…
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Feelin’ The WordPress Vibe
When WordPress was born 20 years ago, it broke new ground and changed the world in so many ways. It bettered the lives of millions of people, including mine. Just as WordPress caused this positive disruption two decades ago, AI is now poised to do the same. So to honor WordPress and the love I…
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Does This Thing Have Wheels?
Back in the day, being mobile generally required wheels, but of course, the word “mobile” evokes images of phones now. When WordPress began in 2003, mobile phones existed, but they were far from smart. I bring this up because although I am a long-time smart phone user and a much longer-time WordPress fan, today is…
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A Trip Down Website Memory Lane
As WordPress gears up to celebrate its 20th anniversary, I’ve ventured down memory lane and taken a look back at some of my early WordPress websites. But this begins before the birth of WordPress. The earliest website I built – that I can recall was launched before WordPress was created. Back in the good old…
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Getting Creative with WordPress
You may see me posting more during this month (May, 2023) because this is the birthday month for WordPress. To celebrate its 20th birthday, I’ll occasionally post something here in honor of how it has changed so many lives, including mine. Today, the WordPress marketing team has asked us to share the most creative use…
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WordPress as Art
Creativity is limitless. Concepts can be combined with ideas, then combined with media, then combined with fantasy, then combined with digital, then….well, you get the idea. For fun and creative exercising, the Museum of Block Art was developed to showcase art made with WordPress Gutenberg Blocks. Speaking of WordPress, this year marks the 20th anniversary…
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First Flowers of 2023 Here at Home
Along with daylight savings time, more sunshine, and warmer temperatures, the first flowers to bloom in our flower bed happened! Those brilliant reddish amaryllis blooms you see above are so pretty. These were here last year, but they’ve come to life again this year, and I couldn’t be happier about that. It’s time, y’all, for…
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My New Novel, Revenge Begins With Insanity, Now Available
Y’all, I’m jumping out of my skin with excitement. It took a long time, but The Grave Blogger finally has a sequel available. That’s right, and the title of the new book is Revenge Begins With Insanity. For 5 days (from February 18, 2023 – February 22, 2023), the first Kindle book in the series,…