Dear Dairy…Love, Janie
Who would be reading this new blog of mine? And wouldn't the fact that there were readers drastically interfere with my need for total privacy? Well, yes, it would. But if no one read what I wrote,...
View ArticleWriting & Going Rogue
What's missing for me on JaneGassner.com, what fuels my writing is--well, me!
View ArticleCreating A Bucket List
I have a problem with these Bucket Lists because I just don’t categorize and look at life that way. I'm not without a yen to do and explore, but "before I die"? That allots them an importance I'm not...
View ArticleScene from the “Who Gives a Shit” File
INT. DAY. SKECHERS SHOE STORE, SHERMAN OAKS GALLERIA. The shop is empty except for an OLDER WOMAN, the customer, and TWO 20-SOMETHING MEN, the sales staff. The woman is carefully examining […]
View ArticleThe Newly Single Woman Tries to Move
I got an email from OpenSalon.com yesterday informing me that they were shutting their doors and so my blog posts would only be available for download until the end of […]
View ArticleAre You Getting Paid for Your Writing????
I’ve just redesigned my Blogging & The Business of Writing group workshop as a Personalized Coaching Program specifically tailored to you, your goals and your writing experience. You’ll go at […]
View ArticleThe Single Person’s Life
I ignored the fact that her statistics were somewhere south of the Georgian steppes (I am math-illiterate myself, not to mention geographically-challenged). I was totally taken with this idea of the...
View ArticleNot A Real New Year’s Post
Any of this resonate with anyone else????? This is, I'm pleased to say, a real blog post and as such, you can comment on it. And I'll comment back. And we'll have a conversation. Like in the olden...
View ArticleBack to Blogging
We are now two months into this little adventure, and I am so ready to be out and about again. Since I'm still housebound, I've decided to do the one thing I still can: blog. I've already started on...
View ArticleThinking About Writing About Aging
I have been thinking and writing–and therefore thinking about writing–about this aging trip we’re (I’m) on for almost ten years now. Yikes! And yikes again! In that time I’ve changed […]
View ArticleLearning SEO at Midlife & Beyond
I'm a boomer and SEO is supposed to be beyond my understanding. I. Don't. Think. So. My stats for this site are pathetic; how will my stats improve after I've learned SEO?
View ArticleAre Seniors Too Old To Learn SEO?
Then there's the problem that my title revealed: Search Engine Optimization doesn’t commonly pair with words like “seniors...boomers...sixty plus...the elderly.” Is that a function of a lack of...
View ArticleStep One of A Content Marketing Strategy
And that means--five different products that I'm creating content marketing for. Is there anyway I can do that on one site? Too bad if I can’t, because I’m about to have a go.
View ArticleSetting Goals for Content Marketing
I need something to quantify, and if it’s not money, what is it? Aha! Stats, numbers, just not the ones with a dollar sign in front. But which ones--and what do they mean???
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The Good Old Days
I’ve missed the act of blogging as it used to be, when I wrote what came in my mind for no other reason than the pleasure of putting words together so they said what I thought I meant at the time. I’m...
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Return to Blogging, Take 2
Here’s my problem: I want to start blogging again. And one would think, what better place to do it than here, in this corner of my website labelled “Blog”. Except–the kind of blogging I want to start...
View Article#TOS60, why????
One of the reasons I got the idea to do this podcast is because I want to be able to talk others about these things that are happening to me or occurring to me or floating through my mind in these...
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