Bad Blogger

It's amazing how - even when writing blog posts mentally during the day - I just never get around to actually writing and posting them. There is just SO much going on, that it's easier to post a one sentence comment on Facebook than it is to post a deep analysis of some moderately interesting topic on my blog.

I have been a bad blogger this year.

My blog is soon moving over to WordPress (charissacosta.com), and this move has taken a lot of my time. Blogger hasn't been a great blog partner in the last few years - no great updates or improvements - and WordPress plugins, are, well, just cooler. In addition, it has been a great experience learning more about WordPress programming and customization. I'm taking on a few projects for friends that will likely be based in WordPress, and there's bmorecharitable.com, the philanthropic project that Jess Dijak and I are getting off of the ground that we managed to get up and running over a weekend.

Next up? Maybe Joomla, just for fun. I think I need to hone my programming skills a little bit more...

Spring

I would be perfectly contented living in a place where it was always Spring. I'd manage the chill, dance in the rain, stomp in puddles, and hell... I never really liked myself in shorts anyway.

Publishing

Does anyone know anything about 'small time' publishing? I wrote a poem/children's book - one that I really believe in - and I'm contemplating getting it published. I'm open to considering a small run to see how it goes, but I'm just not sure what the process is, or the 'easiest way' to go about it. The poem will fail or succeed on its own merit; I'm fine with being small time. :)

Anyway, suggestions welcome. I'm looking for someone who knows about this process, because web sites on the subject are intimidating and complicated. Thanks in advance. (And thanks, mom, for the support.)