5 tips to achieving big goals
It’s the beginning of the year and many of us look to setting goals for the year. But how do we go about achieving big goals? Sometimes the thought of longtime effort and commitment...
Tagged: blogging
new features on the site
Welcome to the new Chocolatour site! It has the same URL as the old Chocolatour.net site but everything you find here is new or newly polished. That includes six years of blog posts that...
Sisterhood of the World Bloggers
The blogging community is a dynamic and tight-knit one. I belong to several different groups for bloggers–some focus on the business of blogging, and others are groups of bloggers who actively support the efforts...
accepting the Versatile Blogger Award
Many thanks to Chris Nash for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Chris knows me via the Travel Blogged group on facebook, and so he nominated my travel blog for the award in...
poll #1: separate or combine?
Welcome, everyone, to my first-ever poll! I seem to be in a state of evolution, and am seeking the advice of you, my readers. When I began blogging in early 2009, I posted about...
Write on! The writing process blog hop
Hi everyone! I’m thrilled to be participating in my third blog hop! (The two previous ones were under the tag “Blog Jog Day” but they are essentially the same.) Thanks to A.K. Andrew for...
tips to improve your blog writing
Happy March, everyone! I’ve been busy travelling and researching volume II of Chocolatour. So I was thrilled when a young freelance writer from the UK asked if he could write a guest post for...
favourite posts
I started blogging in February of 2009, and what a ride it has been. In this post, I’d like to share a few of the favourite posts we’ve had on this blog judging by...
accepting the Shine On award
Thanks to Lorraine Reguly for nominating me for the Shine On bloggers award. I met Lorraine via the Bloggers Helping Bloggers sub-group on Linked In. Many of the readers of this and my chocolate...
born to blog
I recently tweeted the line below and it received a lot of reaction, making me realize that it was worth a blog post: “I’ve figured out why I love #blogging more than #writing. Blogging is social. Writing...
