Category: blogging

  • Blogging Etiquette (III)

    For my final installment in this blogging etiquette series, I would like to share my thoughts regarding relationships with other bloggers. If you are like me, then you read your favorite blogs everyday, leave a comment, and those same bloggers visit your blog and leave a comment. That is usually how these relationships develop. Or,…

  • Blogging Etiquette (II)

    Today I want to turn to the topic of comments.Before I get into all of my wonderful advice (I hope you’re chuckling), I would like to emphasize the girlishness of my advice. I am a woman, in case you haven’t figured that out. My pointers for leaving comments are heavily influenced by the amount of…

  • Blogging Etiquette (I)

    A few days ago I posted some pictures of my daughter’s room rules. There just happens to be certain things that Hannah does and does not want going on in her room. My sons, however, prefer a “rule-free” environment. Likewise, believe it or not, there are a few rules regarding proper interaction among bloggers and…

  • Does Unconfessed Sin Clog Our Joy?

    I am continuing to read John Piper’s little book When the Darkness Will Not Lift and sharing some of my own struggle with melancholy. In chapter 4, Piper turns to the issue of sin in our lives and how it can rob us of our joy in God. He writes, Sin destroys joy. It offers…

  • How I Became a Blogger

    How did you start blogging? I started out just reading blogs. Then one day I clicked on a Blogger button. Once I realized how easy it is to blog, I created my own. It was my 8th wedding anniversary and I thought it would be a neat little surprise way to wish Karl a “Happy…