The upside is that I pledge to write at least one post a week throughout 2011. WordPress is challenging me to do that and I intend to rise to the occasion.
The benefit in doing this is that I hope to provide more regular useful information for you about Oaxaca (and Mexico) family life, art, culture, archeology, shopping, dining, food, alebrijes, pottery, textiles, restaurants, street life, festivals and fiestas, celebrations, and generally what to do and how to get there.
The downside is that I will write when I may not have much to say! Filling a blank page with drivel is not what I want to be doing! I am reading WP’s The Daily Post for inspiration 
I will rely on you to tell me when I have overstepped the boundary between what is relevant and what is gibberish.
Thanks for reading. Now, onward ……
Open Letter: It’s a struggle! I’ve migrated to a self-hosted WordPress site.
This is a do-it-yourself blog/website that I am struggling to learn how to manage. I must say, I am a content person and the “back end” mystifies me. I probably have no business managing this self-hosted blog myself. Nevertheless, the deed is done and I’m trying to figure out now how to get the
Subscribe to Me!
feature back onto my front page. This is where the subscriber signs up to get each of my posts delivered into their email in-box. In the transition from WordPressDotCom to WordPressDotOrg, I have lost all my subscribers and only just discovered that they have not received any of my posts over the last month. Big Bummer!
Yesterday, I spent four hours trying to understand and get the Google Feedburner RSS going. I get it that if you click on the orange RSS icon you can get a syndication of my blog that is delivered to Google Reader or other vehicles for getting news delivery. I don’t think the people who read this blog really understand that. They are likely more interested in recipes and travel tips. But I could be underestimating the audience.
I’m now publishing a monthly newsletter. If you want to join the mailing list, please let me know! In the meantime, thanks for figuring out how you can stay connected to me.
Saludos y buen suerte a todos,
Norma Hawthorne
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