If you’ve found your way here via AgelessNorthShore’s recommended 14 Blogs 4 U, I invite you to look around. You’ll see from the categories that I cover not just what’s happening in my garden but news in the eco-gardening world and whatever I’m up to at the moment. Usually it’s organizing for good causes and no money (see graphics in sidebar) but finally, it’s for pay! Just launched this week is Garden Center Blogger, where my partners and I help independent garden centers communicate online successfully, and get the very best local gardenbloggers hired in the bargain!
It’s all part of what I used to call My So-Called Second Career, in which I tried to cobble together a living as a garden writer. (For my first 30 years after college I worked as a “court” reporter in Congress and the courts of D.C., when I wasn’t doing stints at a string of nonprofits that started with Common Cause.) Finally after attempting what seems like dozens of possible revenue channels, it’s looking like using my blogging experience to help companies in my industry succeed might just be the perfect fit. To clarify, helping companies that I really WANT to succeed. So even to a ’60s activist, it doesn’t feel like selling out to corporate America or whatever nightmare vision used to haunt us.
But back to Ageless North Shore – I THANK them for including me and I feel honored! I’m also a fan of Time Goes By, whose list of “elderbloggers” the folks at Ageless North Shore perused to find their favorites. Ronni Bennett does an awesome job and I’ve enjoyed contributing a couple of movie reviews to Time Goes By.
Related posts, including a couple on the team blog GardenRant, include:
Indie Garden Centers, Start Your Blogs
Garden Center Blogger Wants You
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Congratulations on the shout out, but I was surprised when I followed back the link, as I rarely think about the age of the author when reading a blog, this one especially.
Good round-up though. I’m off to see what’s new on the humorlessbitch blog.
COngrats Susan. They know talent when they see it.
shirley
Hi Susan and thanks for the shoutout.