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Airing the Parental Dirty Laundry
If you blog, you presumably want readers. And one way to do that is with a snappy headline. One could borrow from supermarket tabloids and go with something sensational and completely fake — "Sarah Palin Gives Birth To Three Headed Alien" — that would do it. But if you blog about family matters, the truth can work just as well...
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Gee Mum, Why Don’t You Just Buy a House?
One of the best -- no, probably the best -- part about all this blogging business is that every once in a while you happen upon a gem, a rare find that makes you feel like you just discovered $50 in the street.I happened upon Bette Jo's a Bead a Day a long time ago and am constantly amazed at the writing and honesty that springs forth. But a re...
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Mum Bloggers Hit Glass Ceiling
"Mummy blogging" is big business. It is estimated that 15 million women have a blog, and the annual BlogHer event in July this year attracted big name sponsors, including General Motors and K-Y Jelly. While the movement is still growing in Australia and the UK (who have just launched a 'British Mummy Bloggers Carnival'), US mummy bloggers are attr...
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Of Childhood Trainwrecks and Literary Inclinations
From time to time I'll look back on childhood and cringe — either because of the way I behaved in a particular situation or the way I was tormented in others. Most of childhood was just grand, don't get me wrong. But every now and then a memory will spring forth out of nowhere, and I'll think: "Who was that kid?"Which i...
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What to Expect When You’re Aborting
A 23-year-old US blogger has created a storm of controversy by blogging about her abortion. From her first entry showing a picture of her positive pregnancy test, to her latest post dealing with "a little post-partum depression", the author handles the topic with a rare level of candour and humour: I'm trying to get some advice and info that isn'...
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Mummy Blogger Hurt In Plane Crash Helped by Readers
Never question the awesome strength of the blog. Mother of four, Stephanie Nielson of NieNie Dialogues, is one "mummy blogger" who's readers came out to support in a very significant way, proving the monumential power of the people and the pen keyboard. Read more...
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