Hello Readers —
I’m “back” from BlogHer07, which was awesome, and has me full of ideas, and interested in your ideas as well.
Here are a few things I’m thinking about:
- Adding a “Butch Bloggers” category. (And if you want to be listed, please leave a comment saying so!)
- Adding ads, as much as a visibility strategy as for the possibility of income from it.
- Adding additional authors — if you are interested, shoot me an email at lesbianfamily (at) gmail (dot) com.
- Reorganizing the resources section
- Adding weekly features
What do you think? What would you like to see more of? Less of? Revisions of?
Author: Cheryl Dumesnil and Alan Shannon
A freelance writer and writing coach, Cheryl Dumesnil likes nothing more than laughing at the crazy things her kids say. Her books include a memoir,
Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood; a collection of poems,
In Praise of Falling; the anthology
Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall; and the anthology
Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos, co-edited with Kim Addonizio. When she’s not writing or teaching, Cheryl’s hiking, yoga-ing, begging her children to stop the potty talk
please, or trying to toss pop flies, without tearing her rotator cuff. Check her out at
CherylDumesnil.com.
The only suggestion I have is perhaps a category where bloggers can split themselves up by country. As a dyke from Canada, it’s nice to be able to find the blogs that talk about what it’s like to be a dyke in Canada, which can sometimes be quite a different experience from the States. But everything here makes me happy already, and I’m conscious of how much time it must take you and others to keep it so – so kudos!
Thanks, Shereen!
Right now we do have the “global families” category, but maybe that isn’t intuitive. I think most of the bloggers are either Canadian or Aussies, maybe when I’m doing the revisions I’ll divide up the page. 🙂
Maybe move the adoption list into “parenting by type” instead of the “journey there” (or leave it in both?). Several of the blogs listed in adoption are addressing adoption parenting, not the pre-parenting stage of adoption.