A fresh new update for 2026!

I hope that your year is treating you well. Just a fresh update for the new year as I return to Second Life to spend more exploring, shopping, listening to live music, and also getting into role play. I have also been invited to blog for the wonderful Fabfree blog, which features great information on finding the best freebies in Second Life. It has been more than a hot minute since I last blogged about anything regularly, though I used to for a friend’s business and some other things some years back.

I am looking forward to knocking the dust off and sharing helpful tips on finding freebies, which is something that I enjoy doing in SL.

Living a good life. What do you need?

Daily writing prompt
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?

I suppose it could be many things and differ from person to person. Love, companionship, doing what makes us happy… self-care… so many things. I will just go with a few quotes I like today.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s your journey. You gotta do your work and I gotta do mine.’
I taste salt from my tears. ‘Your need scares me. I’m afraid I’ll focus on your needs over mine.’
I clear my throat. Breathe in and out. Steady myself. ‘I love you… and I love myself. I want us to be healthy and strong. On our own. So that no matter what happens, whether we meet again or not…’
I look him in the eye. “Love means wanting you to have a good life, even if I’m not in it. And your love for me? It should be that strong, so you want that for me, too’.”
― Angeline Boulley

“I chose the sensual path because I knew I didn’t want to ordinary.”

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

  • Bertrand Russell

Updating, moving –

The former is what I am going to do with my blog to get current again before fully diving back into my own blogging for SL.  The second one applies to what I have been doing in the last month or two as we switch houses from the old one.

I really have missed doing this, and mainly, I have been keeping up with Unrepentant as we are setting up a new blog and domain of its own there.

Social Networking: Plurk and Avatar Social Network

A pretty good article on two resources and fun sites to widen your blogging audience, so I will just put this here.

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In previous articles I have gotten into the use of Flickr and how to use it to expand your audience of your blog and this time I will cover two other Social Networks that are both heavily used by Second Life residents – bloggers, creators, artist and designers: Plurk and Avatar Social Network.
Maybe you have heard of them, maybe you are even active on one (or both), but I am sure a lot of fellow bloggers are not.

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Plurk
Yes, it is really named that way. People on Plurk are called ‘Plurkers’ and just like you tweet on Twitter, you well…plurk on Plurk.
Plurk (it is free)  is best decribed as some kind of Twitter, as the updates..sorry, plurks, are brief, usually accompanied with an image, link to a blog or a youtube.  The socalled:  micro blogging.

There are also mobile apps for Plurk, making it…

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Quick update

No fancy pictures and pretty words ..yet.  I just want to leave anyone that cares know that I have been dealing with medical issues and hospital time for myself and my better half.  This has lightened up this week to allow me to get back into catching with blogging.

I thank everyone in advance for any patience and understanding.

The Dreaded Blogger’s Block (And How You Can Deal With It!)

The Dreaded Blogger’s Block (And How You Can Deal With It!). — I found this a really great post to read and want to share it. It is by Kitty O’Toole, who has her own blog at http://www.kittywitchin.com.

As a blogger, I have had periods of blogger’s block where nothing seems to really inspire me. So, reading this is good to know that others have dealt with this as well as ways to deal with it.