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.
Lela Davidson
Author of Blacklisted from the PTA and Who Peed on My Yoga Mat?
Whether or not you realize it, you are inspirational. Thank you!
Thank you, Grace– or do you go by Grits? I appreciate the kind words.
Welcome, and it’s wonderful to find out about your work! Yay AWB for highlighting you, here! 🙂