Miss September 2013 – Lela Davidson

Good Morning, Arkansas!

I’m honored to be your blogger of the month. Also, if I’m honest, feeling a little like I’ve gotten away with something because here’s my secret: I’m not a very good blogger. In fact, way back in about 2006 when a friend said, “You HAVE to have a blog!” I called her crazy. I talked too much as it was (still do) and didn’t think it prudent to embrace the distribution of immediate, unfiltered content. Plus, I’m old fashioned. I fancied myself a newspaper girl. I wanted to be Gwen Rockwood, another awesome Arkansas blogger and co-founder of NWA Motherlode.

I was too busy learning to write and planning my big future in newsprint to notice a media revolution was brewing. (I’m savvy like that.) Luckily, I had some luck with magazines, but those only come out once a month and damn it, I wanted to talk more often. Timidly, reluctantly, I started my first Blogger blog. I won’t say it took me a long time to “find my voice” because that’s annoying. What I will say is that it took me a very long time to figure out how I wanted to use my blog. It took me so long I still haven’t figured it out, but I keep evolving. I like cultivating my own little plot of land online.

As for me outside of my blog, I’m a best-selling author, journalist, and professional speaker. But I do all that in my spare time now. In August I joined the brilliant marketing team at Acumen Brands, where I’ll be using my media experience to grow the Country Outfitter and Maple & West brands. That’s my latest adventure.

My blog is primarily a place to entertain, inspire, and shamelessly promote. Someday I hope it will be useful, too. I’m not sure what the harvest will be from year to year (or what kind of played-out metaphors I’ll come up with) but I’d love to invite you over to watch it grow.

www.leladavidson.com/blog

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20130902-115304.jpgLela Davidson
Author of Blacklisted from the PTA and Who Peed on My Yoga Mat?

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