Noun — a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.
“On a regular basis” That’s what always gets me. It’s hard to be consistent. I’ve been maintaining pretty well this year. It hasn’t always been easy, but I’m working at it.
Verb — [no object] add new material to update a BLOG. [with object] write about (an event, situation, topic, etc.) in a BLOG.
Circa 1969 (British-Joe BLOGGS) a term used to indicate any hypothetical person like Americans would use “Joe Blow,” the average person on the street.
Let’s go back even farther, circa 1860, “a servant boy” in one of the college houses.
But I wanted to explore the Internet BLOG variation. A LOG (besides the wood variety) is a place to record things, like a LOGbook. I got to thinking what the “B” in BLOG stood for. I knew it was something to do with online, and I’d known what it stood for once upon a time, but I couldn’t pull it out of my brain. I know a VLOG is a video BLOG, but the “B” was eluding me. Then I came across it, WEBLOG. Makes total sense.
Sort of.
If a video log is a VLOG, why isn’t a WEBLOG a WLOG? But because these are personal logs why not PLOG?
But to make it more personal my LOG (Mary’s LOG) should be MLOG and someone whose name starts with a “G” or “Q” or “Z” should be a GLOG, QLOG, and ZLOG. Even I would be confused. People would just shorten it to LOG. And how would we distinguish it from a paper LOG? So, why wasn’t it ONLINE LOG or ONLOG? Both are a little cumbersome, and even I would want to shorten it. An O-L? Nope.
WLOG is also a bit hard to say. PLOG just sounds ridiculous. And MLOG is impractical because there would be 26 different monikers, one for each letter of the alphabet. Confusing. One central term is definitely the best, and BLOG just rolls off the tongue.
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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