I know I don’t need to apologise, but I want to, so let me I’ve been juggling so many balls for the last few months it was really only time that my arms got tired and I started dropping a few. And one of those happened to be this blog.  I’ve neglected to put any real [...]

A good blogging buddy (and partner in crime) – Hajra Khatoon – and I recently started a 3 month blogging challenge. The aim of our challenge was to gather together an intimate group of personal bloggers to help shine the focus on the awesome-ness of personal bloggers for we felt that they weren’t getting the attention [...]

I’ve been blogging for about 10 months – how the time flies! I think back to when I started and I had no clue whatsoever. I thought blogging was as simple as stringing some words together and clicking ‘publish’. Little did I know that there is such a thing as ‘blogging etiquette’. Here are some [...]

After a lot of blood, sweat and tears…actually there were no tears from me…the Ebook as a result of the first Emergen Blogging for a Cause event – an International Women’s Day tribute – has been published online. In case you missed it, March 8 2011 was International Women’s Day, and Emergen – the site [...]

I’ve been a bit down lately, as something I was hopeful of didn’t exactly turn out as expected.  After the initial thoughts of ‘It could be worse’, ‘Everything happens for a reason’ and ‘This will give me an opportunity to focus on what I really want to do’, my thinking slipped into the negative – [...]

I wanted to share with you some posts of some awesome women bloggers I have had the honour to get to know over the last few months, courtesy of the embarkment on my blogging journey. They have joined us at Emergen in taking up the challenge to ‘Blog for a Cause’ for International Women’s Day, [...]

I have never placed a shameless plug on my blog before, but this is something really important to me, and I’d love all of my readers to join me in BLOGGING FOR A CAUSE! What is Blogging for a Cause? Throughout the year, Emergen will be choosing different causes, themes and issues to encourage members [...]

Why do people blog? Good question. I initially took up blogging to try to get back into writing, and to see if I was actually any good (at writing and blogging). It was a test to push my own boundaries and see what I could achieve, as I was stuck in a rut to be honest. [...]