Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881)
@ruby3881 active 6 years, 8 months agoForum Replies Created
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@scheng1 I tagged you in the post, so you would know to join the group. Yes, we can create a group and so create a new forum. But I think to have a category added for blogging, we have to ask @support. It would be good to get a category for writing or blogging, and perhaps also one for social media. Now there are many writing-related topics that don’t fit into other areas like business, and they are getting filed under “About LiteracyBase.” That category should really be reserved for posts that relate specifically to the site, not for general writing topics.
@peachpurple I use the goo.gl service to create shortlinks. If you already have a Google account you can easily use the site to create your links and track web traffic to them. When I want to see more specifically where the traffic is coming from, I use Google’s “build URL” service to create UTM links. Then I shorten them so they aren’t horribly long and ugly 🙂
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@morgoodie Have you & your kids watched the 2005 Roman Polanski adaptation of Oliver Twist? My kids all loved this one! We went through both a VHS and DVD copy; they wore them down to the point where they wouldn’t play anymore! My autistic son especially enjoyed the film. It’s very dark, so you’ll want to preview it and decide if your kids are ready for it yet. But if they are, and if they do like it, try reading a children’s abridged version of the book. Sometimes just switching to an abridged version makes all the difference in the world… |
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@morgoodie Sorry for the confusion about your kids! Now I understand why you said two babies 🙂 @sunil I suppose it depends on the hospital & the doctor, but most C-sections are now done with the so-called bikini cut. It’s just a 10-centimeter incision, horizontally and not across the abdomen. It’s painful, believe me! I just about cried for my morphine in the first 24 hours after the surgery. But by the time Mama is ready to leave the hospital, the main restrictions are just not to do any heavy lifting for 6 weeks. It’s somewhat more strenuous than a natural birth, but not so much you couldn’t sit up to use a computer or mobile device. |
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@scheng1 Maybe that will have to be the next one! And maybe we need that “split” option, after all…. |
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@morgoodie If you want your images to show up better in most social media shares, choose a horizontal or landscape orientation. So the image needs to be wider than it is tall. (The only exception to this is Pinterest, but if you keep your images to 1200 x 600 pixels they’ll show up just fine.) This poor guy’s head gets chopped off in a lot of places, and he won’t display at all on some networks, because he’s too tall 🙁 As for getting images to show up on Twitter, I use Buffer. Will have to write up a tutorial for that too, I see… |
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@morgoodie Aw, thank you for the compliment Sherry! When I first started web writing I was mentored by some really knowledgeable and talented writers. In some ways I still feel that my skill is far from theirs, but I do recognize that I’ve come a long way. I like to think that I’m paying it forward now. If I’m able to help, that’s great! BTW, I miss Chinese delivery! I haven’t tried the Chinese here in town, but when we first moved here we tried it in the neighbouring city. It was such a disappointment! I think I might want to wait until I can get to a really big city like Vancouver, before I eat Chinese again… |
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Wow @morgoodie, it sounds like you had a rough time of it! I’m glad you were able to have your twins before the hysterectomy. Neither of my sisters-in-law have children of their own. Both had partners who’d had children from a previous relationship. I think the younger one would have liked to have her own kids, but they felt two were enough. And by the time they split up she had two adult step-kids and was old enough that she just wanted to do empty nester things, |
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@morgoodie Nesbit wrote adventure stories in which children were the protagonists. There are very exciting for both children and adults! If you enjoy any kind of social commentary, it can be interesting to read Dickens. His novels were rather autobiographical. He had spent some time in a work house as a child, because his father had debts he couldn’t pay. There is a lot of detail in his stories about British society around the time of the Industrial Revolution. If your kids enjoy readalouds, the Baldwin Online web site is a treasure trove of great children’s lit. You can find a lot of free classic texts on the site, and if you like you can search those same texts on LibriVox to find free audiobooks for them 🙂 |
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Well that’s odd! I just embedded a link in another thread, and it worked fine… |
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@morgoodie Try to remove the comment bit at the end of the URL next time. http://172.104.9.193/live-frugally-surviving-million-dollars/ Hopefully this will work 😀 |
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I’m now wondering if it’s the short link that caused the issue with the embedding not working. Or perhaps we just can’t embed links when we start a forum thread. Here’s a test to see where the problem is…. http://172.104.9.193/5-ways-ruin-great-writing-poor-titles/?mref=Ruby3881 Nope! It seems to be the short link that’s the problem….
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@peachpurple My hospital had all private rooms as it was a birthing unit where mothers delivered in the room (except for c-section, of course!) The rooms were spacious, with a comfy chair that converted into a bed for the father or other companion. The food was even good! But it’s still not the same as being home… I didn’t have any mobile devices back then, so there was nothing to confiscate! I brought books to read, and my birth announcements to write up. Sometimes I rented a TV, but usually it wasn’t worth it. We’d just bring a radio and listen to talk and radio plays on the CBC 🙂
@swalia I believe Lee Ka was expecting a little boy, but beyond that I don’t know much.
@morgoodie That sounds like a pretty bad hemorrhage! I always bled very heavily, sometimes to the point it frightened the nurses. When I had my middle daughter I had the nurse warm me with heated blankets, as I felt I might be going into shock. But the blood work always came back normal – even when the doctor was “sure” I had anemia (I’m naturally very pale.) I was very fortunate to get through four births with no complications other than the c-section for the last one, especially since I have epilepsy. |
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@morgoodie you only need to put it on its own line, so hitting enter once is sufficient. If you want to have a bit of extra whitespace around it, go for 2-3 times both before and after you paste in the link. But yes, it’s as simple as that! I wish we’d know about it before. I will definitely use this method in future, and I’m curious as to whether it would work in our posts as well? |
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@scheng If I really had a million dollars I would likely keep a townhouse or apartment in the city – possibly several in different world cities so I could partake of the culture and the overnight pizza delivery! But my true dream house would have to be a homestead in the country. No pizza there! We’ll be lucky to have internet service…. |
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@scheng1 I need to give myself time to get caught up too! I’m thinking I’ll aim for about one challenge per week over the summer. I have a couple of ideas in mind already… I think we could set up the group for writing challenges, but we’d have to ask @support to migrate the earlier discussion threads to that forum. |
