Mountain Dweller’s Paradise

Is anyone else getting a lot of Ugg boots spam comments? This is something that needs to be taken care of ASAP - even if it means having all comments approved before posting. I’ve just changed my settings under “reading” to force all comments to be approved - and I’ll be notified in email so I can do so immediately though I normally will be coming here only once weekly to post. I’m really sorry that today’s post has to be about spam of all things because as you can imagine, it isn’t my favorite subject.

Let’s fight the good fight and get spam comment bots off of JournalSpace!!

Perhaps unattended blogs should be deleted because they’ll just collect spam and as I understand it - that ruins the pagerank of the entire domain. Not a good thing.

Why isn’t Akismet, WordPress’ spam addon, catching all this?

Some days I sit in front of my blog just wondering what to write. I often feel I have nothing to write about! But I have a few tricks for jumpstarting my brain into writing mode.

One of my favorite thought-starters is to choose a card. I have several thought-provoking card decks. I’ve managed to steer clear of traditional tarot cards.. they focus too much on the dark side of life and I like to keep things light and airy in my life. I like my “Trust Your Vibes” cards by Sonia Choquette, who wrote a book by the same name. Just now I chose the “Listen To Your Heart” card. My heart was telling me to write a post about jumpstarting my brain. Here it is!

Another thing that works for me is to write in my pen-and-paper notebook journal. I may run into the same “I have nothing to say” problem, but there I’ve got no international audience so there’s considerably less stress involved. Not that blogging is all that stressful. My boundary is that I’ll write in a blog if I feel like it or not at all.

Do you have any brain-jumpstarting ideas for me? Do you look at photographs, read books, read the news, or what? Or are you a blessed person who NEVER runs out of things to write about?