I've been lucky to have met several bloggers over the years. As lovely as all of them turned out to be, I admit that I had my doubts. What if they're really ax murderers? What if they think I'm totally uncool? What if I end up wearing a fake mustache, plaid earmuffs, and yellow yarn …
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50 Happy Things for 2015: Bloggers Unite in Flood of Gratitude
Dawn, who writes the blog Tales from the Motherland, invited me to join a group post about all the things we're thankful for this year in order to spread love and joy around the holidays. But we have to come up with 50 and only give ourselves 10 minutes to do it. Sounds a little …
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So you want to be a blogger
Sometimes I receive emails from newbie bloggers asking me stuff like: "Hey, Darla! How in the hell did your blog get to be sort-of-but-not-really popular? Why on earth do you have as many followers as Danny Bonaduce's Twitter account*? You ain't no big thang! Please explain." As I'm sure Danny "The Dooch Man" Bonaduce would tell you -- it takes pure luck …
Is Blogging Dead?
Is disco dead? Is Elvis dead? These are the pressing questions of our time and sadly, there are no clear answers. We live in a social media world, where information is condensed, repackaged then regurgitated straight back into our tiny brains. We're constantly bombarded with buttloads of useless drivel. We have twitter, youtube, GIFs, Justin …
How Blogging Has Changed My Life. Really.
Maybe it's because my fourth blogaversary is coming up, but I'm getting sentimental. I'm looking back over the years and thinking about what this blog means to me. I've debated for days how to write this post without coming off as sappy or narcissistic and I've realized it's impossible. Those are the two things I'm good at. …
Bloggers Gone (Mainely) Wild
What happens when bloggers get together? Last week an amazing thing happened. I met two WordPress bloggers in person. Yes, bloggers are actually human. They exist in an alternate reality I like to call "real life". And online relationships can turn into genuine friendships. I know, crazy! Jules from Go Jules Go and Rachel from …
The Freshly Pressed Curse
Hey, kids! It's time once again for me to interview myself! Y'know....(ahem) because no one else wanted to. The last time I sat down with myself for an exclusive interview, things got cray-cray up in Darla's hizzle when an enraged Maineiac toppled the kitchen table à la Desperate Housewife Teresa "The Feds Are Only Jealz of My Fame" …
My Exclusive Interview With Me About My Blog
Greetings, fellow bloggers, non-bloggers, readers and non-readers! Today I bring to you an in-depth interview I did with...myself. Yes! And they say blogging is narcissistic. In this Q&A, I will attempt to probe into the deepest, darkest regions of the seedy blogging underbelly. I've been warned there's lots of lint. And some grime. Y'know, stuff stuck up in the …
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The Post Where I Explain Humor, Life, the Universe and Everything
What's funny? What do you find amusing? What makes something hilarious? How does someone get to be so humorous? No, really. I'm asking you. (And it seems I've run out of synonyms for 'funny') Anyone...? Recently, I was posed these questions and more by Michelle, a WordPress Editor over at The Daily Post blog. Along with a roundtable of other fantastically humorous bloggers …
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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be bloggers
(The following is my typical inner dialogue seconds after I wake up.) Wha--? Who? Where....? Oh, god. Why. Why? Dear lord, why? Why must I wake up? And always at the wrong time! Brad Pitt and George Clooney were inviting me to become their new hot sidekick because only I can infiltrate the Bellagio and crack open the vault using my razor-sharp …
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She's A Maineiac 