When I first started blogging, I was on my way out of San Diego County to live in Orange County for around 15 years. But I’m a San Diego girl — I grew up here; all my old school friends are here or visit here often, and most of my family live here. I consider San Diego my hometown. When I moved back in 2012, I had to get to know San Diego again — this time as an adult….
I’ve settled into a nice routine with social media. The novelty and the eagerness that naturally came with embracing it again has worn off, and I now only tweet, gram, or snap when I have something to say or show. Granted, I try to have something to say or show on a regular basis, but I no longer spend a lot of time consuming as much as I can of other people’s tweets, grams, or snaps to get a full…
There’s no escaping the fact that I’m old now. Many my age and older will disagree, but 10-20 years ago I thought people my age now were old and simply deluding themselves into thinking that they weren’t and that they were still relevant. So, obviously, people in their 20s and 30s are looking at me in that same way, like I’m an obsolescent model whose parts are no longer made by the factory. Huh. Wait ’til THEY get to MY…
A lot happened in the years I didn’t blog regularly. For one, health issues popped up. After living like a couch potato for 15-20 years, it should not have been a surprise, but it was, only because my body type never really gets “fat” — even at my biggest I was a size 8, smaller than most women. That said, I’d get headaches and digestive issues, and I’d get irritable and the occasional skin conditions. But I figured that was…
I mentioned before that I got on Snapchat to explore possibly using it for my book cover work. So far, I can’t see it being very effective for my kind of work. My covers just wouldn’t translate well into 10-second candid videos shot from a phone, so I don’t see myself adding “snaps” to a “story.” It might be cool for conferences and conventions, though, or for sharing the arrival of contributor copies of print books with followers. Or, on…