It's the weekend baby! I need this really bad. Pray for this sister........

Have a great weekend bloggers!

Not Enough Time in a day!

Have you started twittering yet? Do you have a Facebook and a MySpace account? How does one keep up with all this stuff? It’s enough having a blog to maintain, but there is not enough time in a day to work all these things. Do you have a favorite site? What is it?

Okay today I hit my 408th post and have had over 20,000 plus visitors. Although I started blogging in late 2005, I was not a regular writer, nor did I track visitors. When I started blogging, I would have up to 38 plus comments per blog. But so many bloggers who visited with me have moved on to Facebook and MySpace. I prefer blogging and decided to stay right here.

Blogging has been good to me. I have met many good friends, new fans for my books, new authors for my company, and found an avenue to keep my writing pretty fresh which eases frustration for me. When I'm stressed, I write. Although the comments are down, I have more lurkers than ever. There are some months when I had as many as 6500 lurkers. One day I even got 5,000 readers. I was concerned that my site meter had broken then I found out that the picture that I posted of Beyonce wearing her real hair brought thousands of lurkers to my site because someone had posted my site at Mediaouttakes.

Apparently they were discussing her hair and wondered how her real hair looked and someone said go to prioritybooks. Within hours, I had 5,000 visitors wanting to see her real hair. Imagine that!

People come to your site for all kinds of reasons. I'm just glad that you think of me and my little blog enough to stop by often enough to see what we are up to. Thanks for reading and I'm telling you I ain't going no where.

Stay tuned!

If You Don't Have anything Good To Say

Mom always told me that if you don’t have anything good to say about a person, don’t say anything. But that’s hard to do when you are blogging. I am very opinionated and when I see things that bothered me or that causes harm to someone else, I have to speak out. But recently I read something in Essence from some of the well known African American actresses who seem to be decent people. I mean I haven’t heard much negative stuff or horrible gossip on the ones who spoke out in the Essence article. They stated that bloggers spread lies about them. They talked about how bloggers should be more responsible and check information before posting it.

In the past I have tried to do this and I will continue to do. But reading that article made me think about what is it I want to spread and why is it necessary. Thus, lately I feel like I don’t have much to say. Those of you who read my blog know that I love teenagers, my family, and that I love to write. But that can become boring too if that’s all I focus on. Trying to be creative and interesting is hard when your mind is so busy thinking and doing things to keep your head over water.

So this leads me back to blogging. I am opinionated and if I can’t blog about it, I’ll just become silent. But I want to blog, so honestly I have to be me. Basically, I’m back to share my opinions. I’ll continue to try to research information if need be. But heck this is my blog and though I want to write what I want, I’ll try to remain accurate as I can be when discussing folks….