Category Archives: Blog Guidance

Tips and instruction for how to use the blog and understand its structure.

From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook

The series of essays called “From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook,” are my perspectives on the swirl of emotions and events surrounding our daughter’s wedding.  When she got married at the end of 2009, I kept a journal for the two … Continue reading

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The Header (A stretched out bit of self-expression) and Header Notes

There’s really nothing much to explain.  The header is the photo across the top of the page.  I could select one of a handful of stock photos to take this space, or use one of my own.  I choose the … Continue reading

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Leave a Comment (Tell the blogger what you think)

After reading a post, the reader has the opportunity to comment.  Just type a response in the box at the end of the article.  In many blogs, the back and forth between blogger and bloggee is part of the attraction.  … Continue reading

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Search (Find just what you want to read)

You can search for blog posts to read by grouping them in several different ways.  A basic Search box, at the top of the right-hand column, allows you to find whatever word or content you’re looking for from within the entire blog.  Archives, … Continue reading

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The Ideas (Adding Words to Life)

See the tab just under the header called, “The Ideas: Adding Words to Life“?  It leads to a page full of links to suggestions I’m collecting for how to live a little more literarily.  One of the two missions of … Continue reading

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What I’m Writing – (Projects and Collections)

Directly below the header (the picture across the top of the page) are several tabs with basic information.  One tab, “What I’m Writing,” contains brief descriptions of the various projects I’m working on.  Most of what I am writing so … Continue reading

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Share / Save (Like an article? Send it to someone)

At the end of every post you see a bar that says Share/Save followed by little symbols.  This feature allows the reader to share this blog with other people or make it easy to find again later.  Hover the cursor … Continue reading

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Photos (Hover the cursor over the picture to see the second caption)

Photos on this blog all include a title and a caption.  The caption is plainly visible beneath the picture.  To see the title, which I often write to be  a second caption, hover the cursor over the photo itself.  I … Continue reading

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The Life Literary on Twitter

The Life Literary has a Twitter presence.  In the right-hand column, you can see the two most recent Twitter posts, called Tweets.  Clicking on the heading, “The Life Literary on Twitter” will take you to Twitter itself where you can read all … Continue reading

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Click the Title (To read the whole post)

Sometimes when you arrive at a post, you won’t be able to see the full article.  On the home page, for example, you may see just the first paragraph or two.  When you click a category under the Categories list … Continue reading

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