You have a voice.  What are you going to do with it?

A post from February, but I wanted to share with you again. When tragedy hits, people band together, but when times are uneventful, people gossip, backstab, and hate.  It happens in the workplace, families, and, of course, the blogging community.  I often feel discouraged and disappointed from it all, and often wonder why we indulge in tearing others down? The blogging world is extremely susceptible to this destruction because we are always voicing our opinions.  While some tough issues do end up in healthy debates,

The Post-Conference Blues.

We both took a chance, and made a lasting friendship.

I was more than a little frightened about attending my first blogging conference.  I mean, who in their right mind would pick BlogHer as their very first conference?  Insane, right?  I didn’t know a single attendee in real life and had NEVER traveled alone.  I had only been blogging for a year, so I was a total newb.  As the day came closer to leave for Chicago, I was riddled with a mix of excitement and nervousness.  Even after reading recaps of previous years at