Introduction
Hi. I’m Jill Manty, and this is my blog. I’ve no idea how you got here, so if you’d like to let me know, leave it in the comment section. This blog has no real purpose. It’s just a place for me to share my thoughts, feelings and opinions on the things that happen in my life or in the world, at large.
I hate to start off with such glaring self-promotion, but, hey! it’s my blog. So, I’ll just share with you that another blog I wrote about the Olympics is referenced in today’s Washington Post. And I’m even quoted. So, since that could well be the only time that I’m quoted in the Washington Post, and this just may be my 15 minutes of “fame”, I though I’d better record its happening here. You can read the article on the Post’s website, as well.
So, welcome to my blog and happy reading!
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:48 pm
How exciting to be quoted in such a widely known newspaper! Congratulations!
Here’s how I found your blog: through George’s through mine! I was having SO MUCH trouble with Wordpress a while back, and George helped me so much on WAHM.com that I put his Big Money Online blog in my blogroll. I read his most recent post about you having another blog and had to check it out. I’ve seen several of the others so I wanted to see this one too!
I love this theme. I had a purple iris theme on mine for a while but the sidebar mysteriously disappeared and I was tired of fooling with Wordpress by then. I just put one of the themes it came with on there and called it good. This color scheme goes with my website and other blogs much better.
Blog on … you never know who’s paying attention! Could be the New York Times!
March 4th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for the congratulations! It was truly amazing when they first emailed me to ask for an interview— so much so that I at first thought it might be a scam
And then when we hadn’t heard back from the journalist, I figured they had just dropped the story. So, it was amazing all over again to find out that it was in the paper— and on the front page, to boot.
George is really a sweetheart, and I’m so glad he was able to help you. It’s great when the blogging community can help each other out.
Thanks again for the encouragement!