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Here are the answers to the questions you have all been dying to know about me. Didn’t get a chance to ask a question? Well, post your questions here and I’ll do another Q&A.
Without further ado, here you go…
Ashley asks:
As a blogger, what do you think is the best way to grow page views? Best traffic source?
Hmmm, this is tough, I don’t think there is one best source for growing page views. I think it’s three fold. A combination of promotion on Facebook and Twitter and other social media sites with great SEO (Search Engine Optimization) words, along with commenting on other blogs in an engaging way, and finding a group which supports you in your blogging and share your content with others. Writing well definitely helps a lot too. You can’t rely on just one source to drive traffic. You really have to be out there constantly promoting your stuff and helping others out as well. Finding the right balance of these things is really going to depend on the blogger, I think.
Dana asks:
How do you feel when someone disagrees with you in an aggressive manner? Is it better to answer calmly or throw a hissy fit?
I take a deep breath, have a good laugh, then reply back in as polite of a way as I possibly can. Hissy fits don’t resolve anything. It’s like when dealing with children. If your child is screaming and you’re screaming, then no one is listening. Best to keep calm. Much easier to do on the internet than in real life though, I must say. If someone gets me really heated on the internet I can step away and respond later. Can’t always do that in real life though.
Doctor and Wife, Jill Of All Trades asks:
What are your thoughts on twins?
Well, I’m glad none of my children are a twin, ha. My husband has a set of twins in his family and just the thought of having two kids at once going through everything at the same time scares me. I admire parents of multiples, I really do. While having four kids is considered a lot today and I get people saying how do you do it all the time, I have to say the spacing of my kids has helped with that I think. Helped me maintain my sanity. Oh boy, but let me tell you two of any of my kids really might have set me over the edge. Maybe that’s why I only had them one at a time. As the saying goes for those of you who are religious, “God only gives you what you can handle.” Guess he knew twins and me would not have been a good mix.
Joanna asks:
How did you and your husband meet?
Great question. I met him the summer I was home from college after my freshman year when I got a summer job at the local Dunkin Donuts. He was working there too. We actually started dating right before I went back to college so we did the long distance thing for a while (I went to college in FL). I broke up with him in October though after my grandmother passed away. It was a really difficult time for me and I wasn’t sure what I was doing. When I came home for Christmas I went back to work while I was home and he was still there, but barely uttered a word to me. On my last day there he snuck a note into my coat pocket. His timing for things isn’t always the best. I left with things up in the air, but when I came back home that summer we started things up again and we have been together ever since. That was May 1998 that we officially got back together. Here we are 15 years later still going strong. Guess I needed that time to be a college student to really figure out what I wanted.
Joanna asks:
What is the one place you most hope to visit some day?
I have been thinking about this question. It’s hard to pick just one. I’ve never left the east coast except when we were going to move to TN a few years ago so I would love to go to California or really I would love to go to Hawaii. But then I thought that’s boring and so cliche. I would also love to go to Ireland to see if I can learn about some of my Irish ancestors. Realistically speaking though California is probably the most within my reach.
Thank you all for your wonderful questions. I hope you feel you have learned more about me now. Feel free to ask me more questions. This was a lot of fun.
What else do you want to know about me?