March marked the beginning of my fourth year of blogging. This site has brought me many friends, fun and opportunities. It’s like the cartoon says.
More than that I love my blog because my friends live in it. Not only do my friends live at tchistorygal.net, but my memories are here too. I remember all the times that my friends stuck with me when I got stuck in their spam folders. I panicked because for weeks I could not solve the problem, so I wrote about it, and eventually it worked out.
Another time I completely lost my site. Blinded I wrote to WordPress and told them I was not a spam site. I was not even selling anything. I did not use bad language, or show naked or violent pictures. A picture of Manny, my teddy, taking a bubble bath is the highest level of adult content as this site ever reached.
I love this site, and it will continue for a year because I just paid for the domain name and service with WordPress. This is the site on which I cut my teeth experimenting with blogging, and making friends around the world.
However, most of my personal efforts are going into developing a self-hosted site called Marsha Just Writes.com. My experiment needs to step up a notch because I have turned many of my blogging posts from this site into a book, called Because of Blogging, which I hope will come out in June. Last week I published an e-book, So You Think You Can Blog? which I am using to jumpstart my email list for a regular newsletter. I’d love to have you sign up for it. A few of your comments are featured in it.
Besides being able to promote books and other materials I plan to publish, the other reason I signed up for a self-hosted site is to take experimenting to an all new level. I may have a new, very exciting job building a blogging community of over 100,000 teachers, depending on whether or not a colleague of mine gets a grant approved. I’ll keep you informed when I know more. Because of that, I need experience growing a professional blog. As usual I’m experimenting with my blog, and I hope you will join me on it. If I can pull in all of my sites – except Manny’s site, it will make it easier for me to manage everything.
In addition I accepted the challenge of building a new website for San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies. I’m moving the old site off and the new site into its location with a launch date of May 12th, what would have been my mom’s 90th birthday.
I hope you all will move with me. You will automatically receive the posts on WP reader, but to continue getting email notifications, you will have to sign up for emails on that site. Thank you all so much for your support. Hope to see you on the other site! 🙂
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
20 responses to “Website Moving and Expanding”
Glad you are seeing your dreams through, M. No more Spam nonsense over there!
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Not much, thank goodness! There’s nothing worse than getting caught in the spam box! 😀😀😀
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Looks like lots of new and exciting things are in the works for you. Congrats.
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I can see you becoming an internet tycoon MVBFM. Good luck my friend 😀 ❤
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I don’t know about that, MFR, but I’m working at it. I have had fun blogging and so there’s no reason to stop having fun with it, right?
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Right ! 😀
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That’s really great!!! All the best!!!
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Thanks so much! 🙂
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Oh, and let us know the URL of the new site!
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It’s Marshajustwrites.com. Thanks Jilanne!!! 😀😀😀
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Big, big plans! Congrats!
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Best of luck with everything, Marsha! I’ve got my fingers crossed that the grant comes through 😀 and it’s great to here about the blogging book xxx
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Thanks Dianne. Would you be interested in doing an interview after your book comes out?
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It’s just a short story, Marsha 😀 I don’t have a novel coming out just yet, but (fingers crossed) I will at the end of the year xxx
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Marsha, I don’t think the word “retirement” is in your vocabulary. Best wishes for all your new projects, especially the books. I’m already over on the new blog and I’m looking forward to reading all about your successes. Oh, and I remember when you got stuck in my spam box and you were there for a couple of weeks before I discovered you and let you out! :))
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Hehehe. You are right. I’m way too young to retire. I just like to orchestrate my work. 😀😀😀 Thanks again for the great interview!
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I like that. It’s a great way to think about retirement, working on what you want instead of what you have to do! In the meantime, I am lucky to enjoy my work.
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Good luck with your new venture, Marsha. I’m happy to follow your new blog. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Sylvia. You are a great friend.
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Marsha
And Many Many more years of blogging.
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