“Karlana’s Blog – My Life”

http://www.karlanakulseth.com/blog

I blog because I type a lot faster than I write. I also enjoy blogging because I know that there are many women out there who need to know that they are not alone in feeling overwhelmed or attempting to overcome and conquer those life tribulations.

I have been blogging on and off now for about four years.

I blog about my life, plain and simple. Whatever happens during that particular day I am blogging, that is what I write about!

Oh there are SO MANY!! One that I read religiously is my favorite digital scrapbook designer and photographer, Holly McCaig. She may not be a mom, but I enjoy reading about her life all the same. You can find all the blogs I read listed on my blog under “Weblogs I Read”.

Those who are new to blogging, this is the only advice I give: Do not hold back! Don’t allow yoru blogging to only show the best part of your life. Do not be afraid to show that you are human and have bad days, make mistakes, and get embarassed every once in a blue moon. Just blog!

YES! I try to get back to all of my commenters, but some of them I also talk to through their blogs, so it really is a circle connection!

Yes! My brother reads my blog and always tells me how amazed he is at what I do. My friends and fellow college mates also take part and indulge in their curiousity and read up about me.

Yes! I love visiting forums, but there is two I frequent very often. I visit The Loud Mouth Ladies, which is just a women’s site that accommodates to all types of women. Don’t let the name scare you off, we aren’t really that loud or mouthy – but we can get there!! Then there is one that I pop on for my photography and digiscrapping discussions called . They are an awesome bunch of ladies, and one dude.

I blog throughout the day. I will find things online and post them, whether they be interesting news articles or a tidbit video off of YouTube, and just pop them up on my blog. Since I use FireFox, I use the feed reader and it makes it so much easier because I have all my feeds saved in there and just spot and select. I blog on my own personal site, www.karlanakulseth.com/blog. I often blog between my main computer and laptop.

LOL, it is so funny I get asked this question because just today my husband asked me the same thing. I try to blog everyday, but on average about five days a week. Hours accummulated writing does not compare to the hours I take up just reading about other people and their lives. I would say I spend about 2-3 hours a day reading up on people’s blogs!

Yes! I use Technorati mostly. I also check out blogs by word of mouth or if I see another blog on someone else’s blogroll I had not seen before and pop in to check it out. Mostly by word of mouth, though.

Oddly enough, it was through Blogger. I was just websurfing one day and saw this link and check it out. After that, I was hooked!

The first blog I had ever read isn’t even around anymore. It was about a teenage girl who was writing through her griefs of life. In the end, she was found to have bipolar disorder, and then committed suicide. Her parents posted her last post with what had happened, and then took it down a month later to allow her friends a pathway to find some kind of mourning stone to touch. She had it running for two years before it disappeared. It was a neat little blog!

You know, a lot of things inspire me. It just all depends on what is happening around me. My children inspire me the most in life. Without them around, I would be attempting to push for my BA in Education, or pursuing a lot of things I am attempting to pursue in life.

I actually have two websites, one personal and one business. My Blog and Gallery are up, but my main page is being used as a redirect to my business site as I have recently just made those two separate. My personal site URL is www.karlanakulseth.com and will have buttons on it soon enough to direct in other places. My business URL is www.karskreations.com.