On average, how many hours a day do you spend on your blog during the week? (including anything blog related like social media) Probably too many. And also not enough. Trying to streamline it. Spend more time on the tech side than the writing side. Y’know, finding photos, resizing photos, cursing at photos. Adding links to content, copying and pasting those links, cursing at those links. Frankly I get so tired of sprucing shit up that I forget about…
The last time the fam and I went to NY, Isla turned six months old on the trip. One of my ‘things’ has been to push for plan another trip before she goes to ‘big school’ in August. Well. We tried to get the two weeks before school starts, but that didn’t happen. And so. Missing her first week of big school to hang out with her Nana and ‘Mumma’s people’ who don’t actually live on the phone and the…
Hi, How the hell are ya? If you’ve been blogging for a long time or since last week, you might have heard something about your target audience or your ideal reader. And allow me to say something else controversial here, I’ve never had one. Or it’s always been you. Reading from wherever you are, drinking whatever you’re drinking. Whether you’re in a coffeeshop or on your couch. I don’t care how old you are. I’ve been all different ages while…
August marks the 7th anniversary of Gin & Lemonade. It’s been an interesting ride. I’ve learned a lot. About myself, and others. About writing. And how blogging is a separate thing almost entirely from writing. They’re cousins, I think. And I’d like to bring them closer together. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. I guess I’ve taken a few hiatuses, and since coming off the most recent one I’ve looked at this blog and blogging in general with different…
Gin & Lemonade is a disability lifestyle and parenting blog, sharing my adventures fighting ableism, promoting accessibility, and picking up all the toys in my house. I’m Lorna, and I started this blog in 2010, after moving to Edinburgh. More recently, after experimenting with country living for 4 years, the family and I are back in Edinburgh. I’ve always written about my life as a disabled person. And now I write about what it’s like to be a disabled mother.…
