Welcome to Always Write
I’m Marsha Ingrao, your hostess and chief editor and publisher of this blog. If you want to know more about me, and you don’t mind TMI and a few yawns, check out my About Page.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Blogging- A Giant Experiment
Isn’t it great to publish a living blog? Writing, editing, and publishing my blog compliments my philosophy of being a lifelong learner.
Write for fun Publish Join others ©Marsha Ingrao
- 2023 WOTY (Word of the Year) is COMPELLING. I want to write compelling stories and take compelling pictures and lead a compelling life.
- 2022 WOTY (Word of the Year) is CURATE. I want to make Always Write an organized place of learning and beauty for all of us and reflect the result of curation in my life.
All bloggers are publishers. We determine the purpose of our blogs. We monitor and approve what goes out to our public. Blogging carries a great responsibility because a website is a reflection of its owner.
Challenge I Host
I maintain Always Write to have fun blogging with friends. Until the end of 2022, I hosted Story Chat and Photographing Public Art (PPAC). Natalie the Explorer has taken over PPAC, but Story Chat is open for someone who would love to host it.
Wednesday Quotes
Wednesday Quotes is a weekly challenge that comes out every Wednesday. (duh!) It’s a place for writers and photographers to tell their stories using a quote based on the week’s theme. For more information click on the link to my page.
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
Julio Cortazar
“A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blog Challenges Interview Series
As of January 2023, there are 22 interviews of hosts and participants in the Challenges in the Challenge Host Interview Series. Blog challenges are the way many bloggers strut their stuff and meet other people. Join me for an interview or a guest post.
Featured on This Blog
Blog– regular features & Daily posts
- Photo Challenges that I enjoy
- Flash Fiction – My goal is to stretch myself and write a compelling post at either Carrot Ranch Literary Community 99 words or less each week in 2023 or WritePhoto
- Poetry Challenges – Tanka Tuesday & David at The Skeptic’s Kaddish
- YOUR guest posts. I am honored to write guest posts for you, too.
A Direct Result of Blogging
- Images of America Woodlake– a published by Arcadia Books
- So You Think You Can Blog? – Self-published
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39 responses to “New Here”
[…] Last year, 2022, we did Bleak House. This year, the third, we are going to be joined by a third, Marsha Ingrao, and it will be a real triple threat – we are letting you, yes YOU, chose three of […]
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[…] on a short blog break last week, I managed to talk about blogging the entire time! Marsha Ingrao of Always Write flew to Portland from Phoenix, Arizona. I drove my car 6 hours from Spokane, Washington, and picked […]
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[…] with Marsha Ingrao (Marsha also brings such a nice energy to the blogosphere with her challenges (Info here) and the 2020 Priorhouse interview with Marsha is […]
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[…] Readers, If you have a chance, we would love it if you could drop on by the Always Write blog, where a Priorhouse story has been featured for this month’s story […]
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Maroon?
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Life is a gift from god to all humans, it deserves to enjoy.
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Love that! Life is so precious, as is good health and we take it for granted so often. I have been blessed even through the bad times.
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Absolutely right, even the bad times we have to tank god for the gift of health
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I agree 100%.
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Shall i get the honor to follow me and i do the same, i will be more than happy
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Thanks minametry.
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I just re-checked and added a third pingback, Marsha. Hope the WordPress gremlins do their job this time! Lol!
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Thank you so much, Amanda. I’ll also be adding a pingback on this week’s post. So you are going to be pinged to death! 🙂
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Awesome. Ping away!!
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I will. 🙂
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[…] of my recent posts highlight our new city of residence and I hope that you can join me on my blog here. Thanks for your […]
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Hi Marsha, I was looking around your blog as a new follower, and as you say, we have so many other bloggers in common! BUT I have to tell you the most exciting thing is that the Australian road sign photo in this post is from where I live – Tumbarumba is mentioned and that’s my small town!! How incredible :). Love connections like this!
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That is so funny! I was there in 2016-2017 to visit my blogging friend, Carol – the Eternal Traveler. It was a fabulous trip. I could never have imagined every going to Australia (and by myself) but she made it possible. She is also a teacher. I have a series of posts on Australia if you write Australia in the search box.
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I’ll definitely take a look!! So funny the connections we make. I’ve met a few bloggers on our travels and it’s always a highlight of our trips despite my husband’s initial unease.
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Yes, mine, too, but we have been on two trips in the States with our friends, so he is friends with both of them on Facebook, too. Do you know Terri Webster Schrandt? He has met her as well and enjoyed her a lot. With all of us spread all over the world, sadly, it’s not too likely that most of us will ever meet. It’s just so fun when we do.
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Yes I love Terri and join in her Sunday stills photo challenge most weeks. I agree it’s so much fun when we manage to meet up and it always feels like we’ve known each other forever!! Which is weird when you try to tell non blogging friends about it, as they just don’t get it!! I’m great friends with Donna although I’ve not met her in person, apart from being on zoom calls and through our blogging! I’m in contact with her most weeks and she’s one of my favourites.
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I can understand that. I just met her and I think she is adorable. You call each other every week? Wow! Do you get together with several of your blogging friends that way all at the same time, or individually. I know exactly what you mean about non-blogging friends not getting it. Mine are starting to after all this time, but at first it was like my blogging friends weren’t “real.” I think it helps to meet some of them and if you can introduce them to your friends, they get it. 🙂
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Love the blog setup, Marsha. 🙂
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Thanks, Kevin. It’s so much easier than self-hosted, and it’s friendlier. I was never happy with my other blog, so I finally gave up fighting with it. I’m glad you like it. I thought I had lost you. I tried to look you up and got a no longer available sign. So did you do the same thing? I’m just excited to see you on line again. 🙂 Write soon. If you every want me to do a guest post, I owe you several. 🙂
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Sorry for the late reply, Marsha. I know what you mean. I finally settled down with this one. Lol. I would love for you to do a guest post if you’re truly comfortable with that. Let me know what you would like to do and when would be a good time: kevincooper693@gmail.com. 🙂
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Of course, I’m comfortable with you doing a guest post. Let’s chat by email or phone. marshaalwayswrite@tchistorygal.net.
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Marsha, was it you who recommended the book The Worst Hard Time? I’ve found it excellent, though disturbing. If it was you, have you seen this movie, which was mentioned in the book: The Plow That Broke the Plains
Cheers! Yvonne
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It was me, and it was disturbing, and excellent. I haven’t seen the movie. Thanks for recommending it. We do so much plowing here that we have our own dustbowl problems right here in Central California.
Take care Yvonne, and have a Merry Christmas. Lots of love, Marsha xox
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I like your new organization – You are amazing!!!!!
We just showed out place to 2 of our former students children for weddings next fall. We are getting OLD!!! See you at 7:30 am tomorrow morning!
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hahaha YOU will never be old. You are too adorable, no matter what your age! Good for Running P! 🙂
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You are one prolific writer, Marcia… I love your enthusiasm for, well everything..! It all shines through in your writing… 😉
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hahaha Thanks Carolyn/Caroline. Takes one life enthusiast to recognize another! AND the same goes for writing! 🙂 It just so happens that I’m a big fan of yours as well. 🙂
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Excellent! This is a great idea for newcomers and those who have been reading here for a little longer. I learn new things about you every time I visit.
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hahaha, Age, my dear sister, age. Lots of time for things to happen even when you take life easy!!! I’ve had a good life, and I’m loving it even more now. 🙂
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That’s my plan too.
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