Hi friends! Welcome to a Friday recap! Here’s what’s been going on… My Blog Turned 9 Years Old Today! BrynDonovan.com does some serious numbers for the personal website of a not-yet-famous author. It has several thousand subscribers and it gets over 3,000 hits a day. This is my 488th post. I can’t even guess how many hundreds or thousands of
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
What’s a word of the year? It’s basically a one-word goal. A word of the year sums up your wishes, hopes, and intentions. When you choose a word of the year, you’re choosing a vision for the year to come. I have 150 ideas for power words here, including 50 words that describe roles. I’ve updated this for 2025! Those
Do you know when I last watched the TV show Friends? Last Thursday. Four days ago. I watch it all the time. A year or two will go by where I don’t watch it, and then I’m back on it again. The show makes me happy. There are a few things that haven’t worn well, but the good things about
Hi friends! I had a rough week last week, and a good week this week. 🙂 Welcome to my Friday recap! Here’s what’s been going on. I Decided I Really Need to Make Chicago Friends. Obviously, I don’t get too lonely, living with my husband and three rescue dogs. I do have family in town, too; I’m more often the
Hey there! Welcome to my Friday weekly recap, where I talk about how things are going…and if you want to, you can, too! Here’s what happened this week… I Started Teaching My Romance Writing Workshop! Teaching is one of my very favorite things to do! This is a great group of writers and I loved hearing
Did you know that “blog” is short for “web log?” In the early days of the internet, a “web log” frequently shared links to other places in the internet. Before the big social media services like Facebook and Twitter, this was a way to share interesting stories, essays, and websites. A “web log” could also be an online diary. Many
Finally, Yosemite Yosemite National Park wasn’t actually one of my bucket list goals. Mr. Donovan has wanted to go there forever…and in fact, we have scheduled three different trips there in the past, only to have to cancel for different reasons! We even scootched this trip from June to July because many roads were flooded out earlier. The park