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Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

Media Propaganda Bulldozes Israel – Twists Middle East Conflict

I don’t babble on much about political or personal opinions about the world around us on our website, especially on the points that really make me want to scream and yell. I will often wrap those opinions up in storytelling, since these are usually inappropriate for this site. Well, today I got the chance to […]

WordPress Feed Titles

I’ve been trying to create a list of the various feeds available on my site. I created such a list but when my feed reader scans the page for feeds, it lists every single one with the title of my site. This would be fine, but I wanted the title to reflect the names of […]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Well, the news is full of the news. The sixth Harry Potter book is out, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. Millions of the book are expected to be sold within the next few hours around the world. A bookstore in Canada released the book early by “mistake” and an court order was issued “banning […]

Amazingly Simple Home Remedies

As a RULE, we do not accept jokes by email. A relative sent this, knowing our lifestyle, and it was just too good to not share. It just sums up so much of our life and life choices sometimes. ;-) Amazing Home Remedies 1. If you are choking on an ice cube, don’t panic. Simply […]

Returning After Hurricane Dennis

We arrived very late last night back in Mobile, Alabama. We drove all day from Tunica, Mississippi, just south of Memphis, Tennessee, to get back. We worked into the early hours of the morning to set up the trailer in the dark and get the basics running again. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal, […]

Pissed Off at the News Media

July 10, 2005, Tunica, Mississippi So why am I so frustrated and angry? Oh, the list is long. Tired from the rush to get out of Mobile. Anxious about friends left behind. Worried about friends in Florida being smacked by the storms over and over again. Pissed off at continually breaking computer equipment. And furious […]

Watching Hurricane Dennis from Tunica, Mississippi

July 10, 2005, 1300 CST, Tunica, Mississippi The only reason we have a television is to watch the very occassional decent science fiction show and watch the weather channel. And now, we are glued to the television watching the weather channel. Mobile, Alabama, two days behind us, is now being battered with 2-5 inches of […]

Baen Free Library – Free Books Online

I now read almost all my books on my hand held computer. I can easily carry 10-50 books or more on it, and even move from book to book if I want, without the weight or struggle of hauling the actual books around. For a long time, though, finding books in digital form was challenging […]

Day Two of Running from Hurricane Dennis

Tunica, Mississippi While driving along Highway 10 heading east, and then up Highway 55 towards Memphis for the past two days, Hurricane Dennis dropped to a category 2 hurricane and then back up to a category 4 and is on track for the Gulf Coast, aimed right between Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. It is […]

Evacuating from Hurricane Dennis – On the Run

We are now sitting in one of the RV campgrounds that we totally loath, but it serves a purpose for us, several fold, and so we shall stay until the hurricane passes Mobile, Alabama, and then we’ll take two days to return back to our little country-home style campground, surrounded by trees, green grass, birds, […]

WordPress Tips and Tricks – WordPress Plugins

There are a lot of WordPress Plugins I can’t live without. And I love talking about them, because the more I talk about them, the more people will learn about how awesome WordPress plugins are, and maybe, just maybe, the WordPress developers will see how useful they are and put them into the core code. […]

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Oh, wow, I should have looked before, but…well, I finally found the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America website. It provides news and information about Science Fiction and Fantasy writing and authors. It also has news of the Nebula and Andre Norton Awards, something that often guides us in our new book purchase decisions. […]

Evacuating Mobile, Alabama

This is a fast note to all that we are leaving Mobile, Alabama, NOW. We’re almost packed up and I’ll be offline until we find another WIFI note. Posts will still be released on this site automatically (YEAH WordPress), but Brent and I will not be able to get email and such for at least […]

WordPress Tips and Tricks – Template Files, Styles, and Themes

I’ve put together a collection of WordPress tips and tricks, a three part series that looks at the various tips and tricks I discovered while turning over my entire site to the management of WordPress software. In Part One of my WordPress Tips and Tricks Collection, tips and tricks were offered for dealing with the […]

Making a Decision About Hurricane Dennis

If you have been following our life over the past…well, at least the past 10 years that we’ve lived on the road, you will know that where trouble is, we tend to already be planted in the middle of it. We arrive in Israel in time for the millenium and the start of the Intifada. […]