This blog is a separate place to put selected saved Blogs from my years at SparkPeople.com. Today, July 31, 2021, I discovered that I can set the publication date! So I am setting them to the original publication date from SparkPeople.com!.
I also split off a third blog to hold the "Encouraging Words" blogs that have been "hits" over the years. It's here: Encouraging Words from OneKidsMom
NOTE: These will not appear exactly as they originally did on Spark as I've had to "edit around" some things. I've added photos where the blog had none to begin with. The emoticons from Spark didn't come over well, so they are gone. I may have wrapped text around some of the photos differently from how it originally appeared on Spark. And so on.
Now that they are in date order, you'll be able to fairly easily go from bottom to top in a group, if you want to review a series, for example, related to a specific event (so the Boston Blogs are now marked as published on their original date, and you can read them "in order").
Since only seven blogs show up on the main page at a time, you can skinny them down by the labels. Do you see the little labels over on the right hand side?
If you click on one, it will display blogs that share that label.
* "OLY TRI" will get you blogs that I wrote following my Olympic triathlon participation in 2014. They were all related to both the elation I felt in accomplishing this goal and the assimilation of who I had become in the process. In the couple of days after, I couldn't even write in my own voice... I had Brenda (my bicycle), and then Eliza (my wetsuit) as the voices. These are some precious memories that I did not want to lose... so they are here.
* "Injury" will get you blogs surrounding my fall during a training run in November, 2016, and a second fall in January 2017. It will overlap with a couple of "Events" blogs, because you can apply more than one label to a blog. I kept these because they show a period of time when I tried maybe a bit TOO hard to overcome the injury. It took some time before I got to the point where I adjusted to what I can do NOW, as opposed to what I envisioned a few years earlier.
* "Mud Run" will bring up only the ONE blog, The Mud Run story, which was my first featured story on SparkPeople.com.
* "Archived Success Story" will get you the articles published by Spark as success stories. So far it's just got the first one as I'm having trouble with the images from the "Where are they now" version. I copied Kevin's success story, too.
You can also navigate directly, using the dates for the archive, also on the right hand side.
