Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged 2013

 

At AWBU 2013 I learned that:

• Eilleen Jennings and Jacquelin Wolven are hilarious and I want to sit with them whenever I get a chance because I’m always so flipping intense and I need women like them in my life to help me lighten up!
• Angie Albright has a delightful laugh that I could listen to all the time
• Terra is super creative and sweet, and I could take her home, squeeze her, pet her, and call her George.
• Sarah Daigle is smart in a way that I aspire to be (coding rocks)
• everybody should have at least one good wig, thank you Kelly Jo
• Debbie is fantastic.  Cheerful, supportive, on the mission.  I love her!
• Shannon and Gwen inspire me.
• Stephanie McCratic has a famous picture taking pose and I need to master this
• I need a tutu and a tractor, because that’s the kind of girl I am, thank you Ashley
• I definitely live in the land of deep fried meat.  I don’t think I ever heard so many praises on behalf of bacon.  We even saw pictures of stalagtites and stalagmites caused by excessive meat cooking, and these were taken by Janeal, a meat science Ph.D.  Nope, not even kidding.
• Bloggers are, for the most part Introverts.  Throw them all together for a weekend at camp and you get a 100 women who will hang out for a little while, but just can’t wait to get back to their own head space.
• I want to be able to speak as easily and comfortably as Boomama.  She made us all feel like we were together like family.
• There are real live women making money as writers and mothers, and doing it well.  Robin’s Chicks, Boomama, and Tricia Goyer are amazing.  I’m inspired.
• Jodi Dilday exudes confidence and beauty.  She makes me want to stand up straight.
• Donnie Ferneau may bake absolutely everything at 500 degrees (raw foodists like myself try not to let our food get up above 119 degrees) and call it cooking like a chef, but he definitely is singing my song with the fresh local foods and his lack of tolerance for grown up Mac N Cheese.  Amen.
• It’s very difficult to talk about healthy eating when we all have such emotional attachments to our food.  GastroMom is not very popular among beef farmers, but her data is staggering.  Sheer information.  I have challenges ahead of me if I’m going to blog about Raw Food Health in the land of Deep Fried Meat.
• Stephanie Buckley is a woman of vision to be able to put this event together, harnessing the power of such amazing, creative, beautiful, funny, and powerful women.
• Travel blogging is an option.  Don’t know why I didn’t think about that before.  Thanks to Ally for that insight.

Looking forward to all that I have to learn about blogging.  Thank you for the introduction #awbu