Category Archives: Blogging

Tuesdays – Review Day – YIKES!

June 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today is Review Tuesday. According to my poll TV and movie reviews were much more popular with my voters than books. Since today is the first day of my Tuesday schedule I thought I ‘d start out by showing you my page on Book Reviews because many people don’t click on pages, but some of you have commented on my organization. I’m an organized mess – not a Hot Mess, Ralph! Though not a professional reviewer, I was an elementary […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Books, Experience, Writing • Tags: book review, Common Core, Education, Marsha Lee, movie review, tv review

Blogging Schedule

June 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

I want to thank you for responding to my last poll. Y’all blew me away with an astounding 98 responses. That’s up from ZERO on my first poll. Your opinons about the schedule of topics on my blog are as follows: Topics % of Responses Preparing for retirement & living the life 11% Blogging advice and bloopers 10% Book reviews 10% Local adventures and photographic sprees 10% My travels with various folks 9% Photography advice – what I’m learning from my […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Books, California, Challenges, Experience • Tags: blogging, Marsha Lee, scheduling blog posts

Getting More Traffic On Your Blog

June 11, 2013 by tchistorygal

My husband, Vince, asked, “Why are you interested in more people visiting your website, anyway? Don’t you have enough? Do you want everybody to love you? That’s a thought-provoking conversation really. My short answer – YES! I love all my blogging/Facebook/email/Twitter/face-to-face friends. Here’s my problem. I get a little green when I visit a new blogger 2 months into it, and they already have 2,731 followers, or they have 492 likes on their About page. Once in a while […]

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Categories: Blogging, Experience, social media, Writing • Tags: blogging, increasing blog traffic, Marsha Lee

Blogging friend Darla Welchel posted this picture on FB

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

June 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Extreme bad times give birth to silver linings. Disasters and tragedy can bring out the best in people. Right now we think of those in Oklahoma who are suffering with the ugly effects of tornadoes. They need to see beyond their present circumstances and know that there will be a silver lining, or they might give up hope. It makes those of us who are not touched by those tragedies to give gratefully to help those in need. People in […]

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Categories: Daily Prompt, Events, Experience, WP Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing • Tags: Dust Bowl, harelip, Holocaust, Marsha Lee, Oklahoma City Bomber, Oklahoma tornadoes, silver linings, WP Writing Prompt

Looking down - the shadow tells my angle, or is it the angle tells the time of day?

A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

May 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I was inspired by a new blogger friend, Bambang (Bams) Triwoko, to create a post for this Word a Week Challenge: Angle. I don’t know whether I can put a new angle on it, but I will come at it from my perspective. Angle makes all the difference in photography. When I’m just looking at something, I don’t necessarily walk around checking all the angles like I do now when I want to take a photograph. Last week my […]

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Categories: animals, Blogging, Challenges, Photography • Tags: bird forum, birds, blue jay, Marsha Lee, photography, wildlife, Word a Week Challenge: angle

Branding

May 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

In my neck of the woods, cattle get branded, but I’ve been DOING Twitter, and reading about branding. Apparently, if I want to my blog to take off and really go places I need to be branded. My blog is doing relatively well, nothing viral, but then until a few days ago I was not branded. Judging from the lack of number of visitors and likes on my Facebook page, branding must be an essential step I’m missing. So, here […]

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Categories: Blogging, Philosophy, social media, Tulare County, Writing • Tags: blogging skills, branding, Click and Clack, Erma Bombeck, Garrison Keillor, Leanne Cole, Lily Tomlin, Maggie Cochere, Paul Harvy, Ralph

Granted Manny is not blurry, but he's sort of not the focal point.

Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

May 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

Michael Pick would like me to do something different in the background – me, not the scenery. No wonder they call it a challenge. People/objects we know and love, or who are interesting are usually the focus of our thoughts and pictures. Now Michael I’m not happy about this. I’m having to think – AGAIN, and I just did that yesterday. I mean really, I do have some excellent background pictures with Manny in the foreground and San Diego Bay […]

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Categories: Blogging, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

J.G. Burdette Scares Spammers Silly

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

My regular readers know what a hard time I had with spam when I first started. No, not the typical barrage of spam you get from other people – I was spam! I couldn’t crawl out of the Akismet hole I must have inadvertently dug for myself. Well, one of the best serious history writers in Blogland, J. G. Burdette, took a swipe at spammers swarming her site today. You should check it out if you don’t read her regularly. Then […]

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Categories: Blogging, spam • Tags: J. G. Burdette, Marsha Lee, spam

standing from the Master Gardener booth looking over the field

Good Morning World

April 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I do love blogging, and I try to post consistently so that my blogging friends will know I’m alive and keep coming to see me. I recently read a recommended book, Getting Started with Twitter for Dummies, and updated my Twitter account. There I learned blogging tips from Daniel Sharkov, a 19-year-old. So today, because of his recommendation, I just added a new page, New Here, to help explain why I’m here on this blogging planet. Check it out and tell […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Photography, plants • Tags: Marsha Lee, Master Gardeners, photography, Porterville Iris Festival, Sally Pace

I’ve Been Tagged

April 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

Before I start, I want to speak my condolences to those in Boston, and my prayers are with you. As I was digging into Ute‘s blog today I found out that I’ve been tagged. Thanks Ute! What fun! The idea is to answer eleven questions set by him and then ask more questions to eleven others. Here are her questions, followed by my questions and the folks I’ve nominated to answer them, and write their own questions and pass them […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, Experience • Tags: http://utesmile.wordpress.com/, Marsha Lee, Tagged

Step one cut the list from the WP reader.

What Are You Reading?

April 11, 2013 by tchistorygal

“What did you read today?” asks my book-reviewing blogging friend, Marcia. That question made me examine my reading habits. What I really love is drivel. Shock! I thought I was an intellectual! Drivel is different from trivia, the plural of trivium. Drivel is “silly nonsense”, while trivia (pl) are a step above that, “inconsequential or insignificant matters.” Actually I love both. And I can spend enormous amounts of time organizing myself so that I can enjoy my drivel to the […]

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Categories: Blogging, Books, Writing • Tags: blogging, reading, trivia

WordPress Anniversary – New Experiments

March 27, 2013 by tchistorygal

I just passed my one year anniversary with WordPress. Granted, I think all I did in March was turn on the computer and look at the Dashboard, and try to figure out the vocabulary, symbols, and mechanics of having a blog. At that time I had no idea that I would ever have enough to write to keep a blog going, but it was an experiment. When I started, I didn’t know how to use Photoshop, insert a watermark using […]

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Categories: Blogging, Experience • Tags: blogging

Monday in the Life of a Frustrated Retiree

March 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I didn’t think that retirees hated Mondays, and maybe Monday is not the cause of my frustration, but it is Monday, and I am frustrated, so there must be a connection. Right? This is how it started. I haven’t been visiting very many blogs recently because I’ve been busy. I’ve been busy, maybe because it takes me so long to do the things I want to do, and maybe just because I want to do so many things. Yesterday I read […]

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Categories: Blogging, Experience

Piggles Again

February 17, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday I got a comment from TOM, the other Marcia, and she told me I needed a tablet and a stylus to draw. Since she is an artist, and I definitely am not, I decided to try it. V dropped me off at Best Buy, and they told me that I needed a Bamboo tablet. They were only $99.00, and I decided that would be worth the amount of entertainment I would get from it. So it came home with […]

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Categories: animals, art, Blogging, Featured Blog, pets • Tags: Art, artist, author, Bamboo, blogging, drawing, featured blog, Marcia Meara, tablet, Wacom, writing

Piggles was my favorite guinea pig of all times.

A Truly Retired Day

February 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

V is home, so my alone-time retired day is over, but I thought I’d share what it was like to be truly retired today. While I waited for the guy to fix the cabana, I spent several hours writing my first fiction book (short story – whatever it turns out to be), a romantic mystery about a therapist named Amanda Church. V named her. She’s beautiful and 41, widowed, smart, independent, and funny. (Hold on there Ralph, she’s not real!!!) […]

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Categories: art, Blogging, Fiction, pets, Photography, Photoshop, Retirement, Writing • Tags: drawing, Guinea pig, Marsha Lee, Photoshop, Retirement, writing

Shopping anyone? by Carol Sherritt

February 10, 2013 by tchistorygal

My husband and I visited Oman in January when the weather is mild and sunny. On our first day our hosts were keen to show us the best of Muscat and we headed to the main commercial area, Mutrah. We strolled along the Corniche, admired the Arabic architecture and thrilled at our first glimpse of an Omani dhow. But the best was yet to come, as we made our way from the glaring brightness into the gloom of Mutrah Souq. It was shopping time anytime, […]

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Categories: Guest Blogger, Travel • Tags: Carol Sherritt, Eternal Traveler, Marsha Lee, Mettrah Souq, Muttrah, tchistory gal, Travel, United Arab Emirates

Staycation Time – Virtual Visiting Through All My Blog Friends

February 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! Yes, I’ve reached that point in my blogging life – 300 + posts, 20,000 + visitors, 8 + months of blogging almost every day. I tried to do this a week or so ago, but just couldn’t stay away. I am a bona fide bloggaholic according to Ralph’s definition. So here’s my plan. I really am going to step back a bit this time. I’ll have more time to visit your sites, and rethink […]

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Categories: Awards, Blogging, Writing

Sunday Post: Focused Attention

January 31, 2013 by tchistorygal

It’s been a while since I focussed attention on any photo challenge, and I miss them. Jake says focused attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources. Attention also has variations amongst cultures. Voluntary attention develops in specific cultural and institutional contexts through engagement in cultural activities with more competent community. Photography has forced me to focus my attention of […]

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Categories: Blogging, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: attentive, challenge, focused, focused attention, Jakesprinter Sunday Post, Marsha Lee, photography

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Tuesdays – Review Day – YIKES!

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Blogging Schedule

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Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

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A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

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Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

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J.G. Burdette Scares Spammers Silly

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Good Morning World

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I’ve Been Tagged

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What Are You Reading?

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WordPress Anniversary – New Experiments

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Monday in the Life of a Frustrated Retiree

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Piggles Again

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A Truly Retired Day

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Shopping anyone? by Carol Sherritt

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Staycation Time – Virtual Visiting Through All My Blog Friends

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Sunday Post: Focused Attention

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