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"The response to the blogging/vlogging notebooks has been super positive! Now the avatar series notebooks have 3 new covers!" Read more on Flickr.

"Blogging can be complex to track. I know as I blog as well. I was missing so many deadlines because I am the type that needs to see and hold a journal -- computer files are not good for my organizational style. Then thought: "Hey, I bet others are like me!" and decided to make soft-cover blog journals available to everyone." Read more on Flickr.

"Second Life Fashion bloggers share images related to the items he receives for free from creators. A fashion blogger is not an advertiser: the main relationship he/she should take care of is between him/her and his/her readers, and not between him/her and the creators." Read more on the blog.

"Have you ever felt stressed and overwhelmed with the need to escape from your daily routine and find a moment of peace? Stress can be overwhelming, affecting not only your mood but also your physical health. This is why it is essential to find ways to relax and recharge. In this blog post, we will explore different ways to reduce stress and anxiety, both in nature and in the virtual world of Second Life." Read more on the blog.

"I’ve now (at time of writing) reviewed and stayed in 16 Second Life hotels. Though I’ve never built anything in SL, that has given me some idea about what seems to work in making a Second LIfe resort a commercial, as well as a critical success.  I also have some insights from my RL work, which is travel-industry related. As a result, here’s some advice for anyone thinking of becoming a virtual hotelier:" Read more on the blog.

"This website will soon be a year old, which means it’s time for a slight change ... I’m aware that concentrating on hotels only is quite niche, and so I’ll be broadening out the remit of this website to include the following: Restaurants, spas, tours and cruises" Read more on the blog.

"KT was an artist, a gifted poet and choreographer extraordinaire. Each week his gentle, melodic voice would, through his artistry and imagination, transport us to new worlds, new experiences. It might be a dawn walk along a mountain trail or a treatise on creating sand sculpture on a windy beach. It might be about the effect of sunlight on a falling leaf, a slow walk through a sleeping town or the lulling effect of the clackety-clack of trains in the distance." Read more on the blog.

"We head into the last few days of 2022 with a new Deadwool suit on the grid. If that’s not cause for an end-of-year celebration for those of us who adore exquisite virtual tailoring, then I don’t know what is. Add to that the fact that I managed to find a Rolleiflex-style camera on SL Marketplace, to continue the apparent ‘Skell taking photos’ tradition for these retrospective blog post header images, and we’re all set for a look back through my virtual and online life this past year." Read more on the blog.

"14 years ago today I discovered the Wonderland that is Second Life, thanks to my beloved boy urging me to sign up to this amazing place he’d found. In those years, SL has been an amazing creative outlet, playground, classroom, social venue, and general entertainment for me." Read more on the blog.

"I started last year’s retrospective with “So, 2020. That sort of happened, didn’t it?” So, 2021. That—  Yeah, no. Let’s get off on a better foot than that, and dive right into this post. It’s two days before Christmas as I start writing this, and that’s no time to ‘Bah, humbug’ at the world. Let’s take a look at some of my favourite things from my digital life this year, both inworld and out. And there will be a few more categories this time around, so prepare for a deeper delve than last year." Read more on the blog.

"So, 2020. That sort of happened, didn’t it? Yeah, what a bloody year to decide to try writing a retrospective post! But I’m nothing if not a stubborn git, and I’m determined to find as much good in this otherwise crappy year as I can. The personal, internal, RL processing is being done away from this blog, but here I can focus more on the SL side of things and bring you some of my favourite things from my digital life this year – both inworld and out." Read more on the blog.

"Yesterday, while browsing my Twitter feed, I came across a tweet from the official Second Life account, calling for ‘clothing creators, riggers and avatar makers’ to contact them. My immediate thought was “Ooh, new starter avatars incoming?” and my second (and subsequent) thought(s) turned to what I would love to see in the next set of Second Life starter avatars." Read more on the blog.

"In recent months I have been experimenting with the Immersive Theater, a series of techniques to perform performances where there is a real direction in everything: scenes, movements, shots, zooms and panoramas." Read more on the blog.

"Books certainly are portable magic to me.  I love all of the famous nature writers.  Some of my faves are Edward Abbey, John McPhee, and Barry H. Lopez.  They take me  places and describe it so beautifully." Read more on the blog.

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"Are you ready to explore a new world of possibilities?" Read more on the blog.

"If you Know Bjoy & Doc or have been to Campbell Coast you have experienced generosity and such warm souls. Bjoy is dealing with some rough times due to her illness and unfortunately had to sell Campbell Coast. I hope she finds the time to rest and recover and comes back refreshed. She said she will pop in soon!" Read more on the blog.

"It took me thirty-seven years to meet the love of my life. Thirty-seven years that included two bad marriages, a shedload of choices that would be regrets if I kept a tally of things to regret (I used to), one child, one miscarriage (that I know of), reams of making excuses for whichever bad relationship partner I was with that often began with phrases like, ‘He’s not a bad person, really’, a sense of failure, helplessness, and worthlessness, which sadly sometimes manifested itself as ire, anger, and disrespect for people who would have loved me if I’d let them, and the fatalistic surety that my life was hollow and I was worthy of nothing better. I felt unequal to the world." Read more on the blog.

"From Friðros: She brought me to a strange, almost empty landscape in the middle of the night. There was an Oberon standing guard, a single mill on a river, and a massive horn." Read more on the blog.

"It’s been a long time since I found myself in a realm and didn’t realise how I ended up there. It’s even been a long time since I dreamt of such things. I confess, I’d fallen into a sense of complacency, I guess you’d say: that is, I became comfortable with the illusion that I had some sort of control over life outside of Awenia Faerie. The truth, of course, is that I don’t really have all that much control over life inside of Awenia Faerie, but I’m sure I’ve made that clear in various stories repeated here." Read more on the blog.

"I think we choose to celebrate darkness, madly and wildly, until it catches us deeply and seems unwilling to let us go. Once darkness has had you like that, you end up either celebrating it even more wildly, or retreating, as I have done, into a more peaceful world." Read more on the blog.

"Carl Sandburg wrote those words. Sandburg as a poet wasn’t studied overmuch when I was at uni doing my literature Master’s, but I had read some of his things in an independent study. He was on the short list of poets I wanted to cover in my PhD work, partly because, when I looked in to his life, most American sources really glossed over the secondary work he did as a member of the Social Democratic Party and a frequent contributor to socialist newspapers. I smile when I think about that. Because Sandburg was also celebrated as “the voice of America”. It would be easy to dismiss him, if you only ever saw his most famous poem, which you probably know even if you don’t know it was written by Carl Sandburg." Read more on the blog.

"Well, they suck. And I’m not just saying that because I’m The Amazing Catwoman and therefore a surly rebel. I mean, that might have something to do with it, but really: who books the official Queen’s Guard photo shoots for Valentine’s Day?" Read more on the blog.

"I have no idea where Belgium is, or if I am in fact there. But I landed in another nice room today. I’ve been thinking so hard about getting in to the Academy in Callisto, but I haven’t gotten around to writing that second letter yet. I really must do. I think I can remember who I’m meant to send it to." Read more on the blog

"Now, ordinarily, I speak my own stories, but today, since we’re approaching Pride Month in the United States of America, which is apparently a country in her Reality, which she tells me is somewhat different from a Realm as I understand it. When I remind her that I as a character came in fact from a Reality and not a Realm, she grudgingly allows that this is in fact true, but this Reality is even different from my original Reality." Read more on the blog.