Day Three Hundred Sixty-Two: Five Quick Things

The lady who runs the Art of Simple blog, which posted an essay of mine on Friday, also puts out an email newsletter each week for subscribers entitled "5 Quick Things." In it, she tells a bit about what's going on in her world and then links to five things on the web that are interesting to her. The newsletter came out today, and it was fun to see the link to my post on the Art of Simple blog. It was the same essay, of course, but a new format of promotion (and the best First I could come up with for today).

Screenshot of 5 Quick Things
(The link to my guest post is in the Number 4 slot.)

Day Three Hundred Fifty-Eight: Guest Post on Art of Simple Blog

First Number 228, which occured way back in March, was submitting an essay for possible publication on the Art of Simple blog. I was proud of myself for taking the time to write and submit the essay and of the words I had written, but when I didn't hear back from AoS after a couple of months, I figured they had decided not to use my essay. And, that was ok because I had accomplished what I had intended, which was just to put something out there. During our travels this summer, I kind of even forgot I had submitted the essay, so I was quite surprised a week ago when I received an email saying that my guest post would be up this week. I follow AoS closely and always enjoy the posts and community there, and I can't tell you how honored I felt to get to be a part of that in a new way! It is my first time to have a guest post on any blog other than my own, and I'm thrilled that it is a cyber space I enjoy so much! You can check out the post here: https://theartofsimple.net/success/