NEW TO-DO'S, A QUESTION, & A BRIBE!

I need help! No, not of the professional sort (though some might disagree). I need your help. Two years ago, I was a middle-aged woman who barely knew a computer from a hole in the ground, but whose husband kept pestering her to stop wasting so much time, paper, and postage in the sharing of her little stories with friends and family, and "just put them in a blog for pity's sake!"

So, when I attended that last Story Circle Network conference for women who write memoir, and saw that they were hosting a panel on blogging, I decided to drop in - see if I could pick up a pointer or two regarding my husband's crazy notion. If only I had known what I was getting into - that a mere two years later they would be expecting me, the total techno-phobe, to sit on the Finding Our Voices On-Line panel, and answer questions! Like I actually know what I'm doing now? Well, yeah, I guess I still would have taken that leap. In fact, I probably would have gone over the edge much sooner!

In the interest of not making a fool of myself, I'm trying to do some advance prep - trying to get my ducks all in a row, if you will, and remember what kinds of questions were on my mind when I was in the audience. One thing I am fairly certain I will be asked is, "Who is your target audience?", and 'though I know precisely who I had in mind when I took those first tentative steps - young people who were just striking out on their own and needed a motherly guide on the path to the "good life" - I think this audience (that means you) is a good bit broader than that.

So, who are you? I really wanna know! Of course, I need to know your sex, age bracket, ethnicity, education level, profession, marital status and all that other crap that demographers always ask (but not your real name). Most importantly, though, please tell me this: What was it that made you come back to Seasonality a 2nd, or 3rd, or even 100th time?

Hmmm, too much trouble you say? Maybe so - especially since I will probably be asking your assistance several more times between now and February 1st, and since you are all quite busy with your own holiday prep. Perhaps I need to sweeten the pot...dangle a carrot... make it worth your while to answer all my silly questions over the next two months...... OK! What about this? Why don't I make an extra one of these super-dooper handmade Christmas gifts that I've been working so diligently on? Everyone who leaves a comment answering one of my blog-panel-related questions over the next two months will have their name tossed into the hat, and we will have a drawing for this amazing, Hill Country Hippie-crafted prize (which will be reavealed to you right after Christmas). Sound reasonable? Alrighty then, leave a comment here and tell me - who are you, and why the heck do you keep coming back?

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