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Butterfly Mind 
Lovely stuff! Thank you for writing … perhaps our paths will cross in the ‘burg one of these days!
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You have a wonderful blog here. You should add a widget for email subscription. You write from the heart and beautifully so… Thank you Mrs. Badgley!
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Hello Andrea, I was just admiring your blog, both content and setup. I am just a beginner and can’t even seem to get mine off the ground, but if and when I do, I would wish for it to be as wonderful as yours is.
From Sweet Nan
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I’ve just read “from Posts to Pieces” and wanted to leave a comment but could not… there’s no comment box! As a fairly new blogger (been at it for only a month now) I am especially impressed with your submersion in the writing community; taking a course, having writer friends to feedback with and continuing to blog as you work through this process. I taught for 13 years and as a teacher would encourage students to write without judgment OR STOPPING, but simply to get thoughts down before revising, editing, etc. However, this has always been impossible for me to do myself! It wasn’t until recently that I began writing without judgement. Now that I have started, I have a modestly attentive audience here on WordPress, however I crave, and therefore welcome, formal writing critique. If you have time and are willing I would appreciate your feedback. If not, I hope you don’t mind me following your blog:)
Thanks for posting this… people are listening!
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Thank you so much for your encouragement, and also for writing about your ability to comment. I need to figure out a way to make it more user-friendly if you were having a hard time, so I appreciate you letting me know.
There are two ways to get to a comment box on my site:
1) From the home page (andreabadgley.com) click the title of the post, then scroll to the bottom of the page.
2) Under the title of the post is a grey, Italic time stamp. To the right of the date and time, click on the comment statement – either “Leave a Comment” or the number of comments (eg “10 comments”) – and the site will take you to a comment box.
For feedback, do you follow The Daily Post, the WordPress.com blog? Once a week they offer the Community Pool, where you can post links to your blog for feedback, and where you can provide the same feedback for other bloggers. Here is this week’s thread: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/community-pool-poetry-fiction/
Hope that helps!
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Andrea,
Sending you Ballad…it’s a keeper. Love to all,
Uncle Syd
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Got it! Thanks Uncle Syd.
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Just read The Swart, and loved it. Pity I didn’t have a set of those cards for when my kids were younger.
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You could get them now – they’re still funny, even for (especially for) adults.
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Hi Andrea… loved your writing.. you should write books… I have become big fan of yours… 🙂
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I don’t know if I have enough to say on any topic to fill a book, but boy did you make my day saying that. Thank you!
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Andrea, I remain in awe of your butterfly mind. Loved loved loved what you wrote about blogging, about names-using, about boogie woogie-ing.
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You have made me very, very happy Judy. Thank you! I hope your blog is coming along…
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You are by far my favorite! Just amazing. I am following you now and I think if i did it right, have you posted on my facebook too with a connection back to you on here! My fav of all!!!!!!!
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Thank you so much! I’ve enjoyed seeing you on Facebook, and I’m thrilled to see you here too.
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Your writing is pure and so inspirational. It is clear that you have perfected your art and I have enjoyed reading your posts. I am blogging on being a Somali woman and have a page dedicated to my memoirs. By doing so, I have stepped outside of my religious and cultural boundaries. I have become a traitor. Nonetheless, the truth mots be told, whatever happens. My first memoir post is on female genital mutilation and it is called the “Clitless Clique”. I would be grateful if people could read it and share their thoughts.
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Hi Andrea: I enjoy the layout of your blog. How did you line up your social network icons on your homepage? I’d like that same effect on my own site, as I am self-hosted also. Your help is much appreciated. I like your ideas.
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I pulled icons from the web and tailored them for my site (size and color – took a lot of tinkering). Once I got them all equal size and shape, I created a text widget that contains all three icons and links to my specific addresses on the sites.
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So it is an individual widget for each of the three icons I see. But I can’t figure out how you lined them up side by side. I’ve tried this with category thumbnails and there was extraneous white space and I pulled the idea off the site altogether. Would like something sleek like you have but I don’t know how to line them up horizontally, that is…
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Got your email! It worked! I applied my own code to your sample and it works magnificently. I need to get a Twitter started so as soon as that is in place, i’ll apply to it. I have one that i closed months ago. Now tell me, which of the two sets I have on my site would you vote for? Bottom set, or top set? Thanks so much for your help! You are a champ!
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Hi!
Just read ‘No Shame in Pie’ & I enjoyed your story.
I’m a Recipe Collector & want to try your in-laws Grape Pie. Do you share your recipes or are they Homemade Secret Recipes?
LoL …
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Just signed up to follow your blog from the West Coast.
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Hi Andrea, Hi, I just thought I would let you know that I nominated you for the Dragons Loyalty Award for Bloggers. As you probably know participation is not mandatory. Have a great night!
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