by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal
Sometimes bloggers are a little too quick to buy their own press. You know the whole gussied up about page screaming our excellence to the world and we believe it type thing. We ARE important. The new media, that’s us, leading the charge. And I’m here to...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal, She Wore What
Last week I was asked (not for the first time mind you) why I started to blog about plus size fashion. Why when my blog was already a few years old did I decide to blog about my personal style and fashion choices? Why change a somewhat winning formula? And being a...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal
You’ve left it all a little late, have you? So you haven’t packed let alone tackled the conference schedule. Welcome to the club, my friend. With the ProBlogger Conference coming up on the Gold Coast, this post occurred to me as a good idea. I am so poorly...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging
My blog is five years old this October. I think we need to have a party. Don’t you? Remind me to organise something, if you would. This time of reflection had me thinking about what I’ve learnt. About blogs and business and blogs as a business. Blog...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal
Something happened behind the scenes of this very blog. Even though I was reasonably happy with the content, the results made me a little sad, scared and embarrassed. People assume that a blog like mine just grows and grows. Here’s the thing, it doesn’t....
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal
One of my old posts popped into my ‘related articles widget’ today while I was replying to some comments. A post titled Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking and of course I had to click-through to see what THAT was about. It was about Christmas, our second...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Personal
Tis the season and most of us are running on empty. I know I sure as heck am. Empty means a little too much caffeine for me. A little too much time gazing wistfully at my air-conditioned bedroom longing for a nap. Today I’m buzzed. Today I have written the...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Blogging, Lifestyle, Style + Beauty
You know what, I think I must say this here. Kelvin and I talked about it at length one night. It’s time to fess up that I had a little ‘thing’ for credit cards when we met. And that little thing had got me in some ‘big’ trouble. By the...