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A Tribute to the Infertility Blogosphere’s Center

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This is dedicated to Mel, the center of the infertility blogosphere – and keeper of many dreams. (I never did follow directions well. This may be why I have written instructions for a living.)

The Center.
Community built and rebuilt.
Each silo having its own mentor.
One way it would tilt.

A scattered neighborhood.
Chaos matched in pain.
Who could gather this brood?
What could she attain?

Then came the Honeybee.
Gathering into her honeycomb,
Branching out as a tree,
Comforting shade from her leaves.

Come fast and near-
A cry from town’s center.
A storm of tears
Comforted by this gentle weaver.

Loss of what never was binds.
As she, and we all, weep.
Kindness winds
Into hearts broken now come to her keep.

I find I can’t comfortably take part in the Celebratory Project at this time, but I thought that this – and maybe a little more – I could do.

Some Support For Another Corner of the Internet / Blogosphere

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Since my diagnosis of stage 1C ovarian cancer, I have been reading the very real and raw writings of Jayne, a.k.a. Shoppingkharma. Her writings are honest, rough, and without censorship. She does not shy away from the less pleasant side of dealing with ovarian cancer and its myriad of complications. It really isn’t a blog for the faint of heart, but it is a blog that will speak to you like few others.

Jayne is a woman of rare bravery and spirit who has decided to live every second of her life to its fullest extent. She has a gorgeous border collie who fills her blog with pictures. She has a loving and devout husband who married her after her diagnosis.

Right now, she is faced with her 6th abdominal surgery to rectify complications from Stage 3C Ovarian Cancer. She is having a gastric bypass. The first surgery had to be cancelled.

If you can find it in your heart to go over to her blog, http://shoppingkharma.blogspot.com/, and lend her support, prayers, and positive thoughts, please do.

MLOKnitting.com Updates

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I joined Twitter. I’m MLOKnitting there, too.

Why did I break down and join Twitter? Because there are some mini-updates that people might be interested in about the ovarian cancer that might not make it into the general blog – but will be on the Twitter sidebar widget I found.

Also, I’m revamping some of the back-end of my blog. I’m trying to put all the links on pages instead of in sidebars as the sidebars will become unwieldy in due time. I’m thinking of adding newsfeeds from the medical sites appropriate for certain pages as well.

This, obviously, will take a bit of time.

Eventually, I need to go through and clean up a bunch of posts for spelling and grammar errors. I admit, however, that I’m a bit lazy about that one.

I’m also playing with the idea of podcasting. I have to figure out how to find some quiet time and space for doing that since DH works at home and tends to get rather loud (as in entire house can hear) when talking with certain customers. (I really can’t blame him. I would be getting loud as well.)

Anyone do any podcasting and know some tricks for doing such things in a noisy house?

Inspire Me

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I want to revamp my blog. I want to go through and correct the grammatical and spelling errors I know are there. I want to revamp the sidebars. I also want to add new tags and categories. Basically, a blog facelift.

The problem? I am easily distracted by the “ooh shiny” syndrome when there is no real deadline. I also dislike the online management user interfaces in the blogging software. I write my blog in BlogDesk and upload it. This is part of the reason that I don’t do tags. That would take going into a menu. Hrm… I think I am sounding lazy. Could be that is the root problem.

I am also looking for server-side calendaring software. Any suggestions?