a colorful adventure

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been busily working on a new site design and am really excited to share it with the people who read the blog regularly. I’d love for you to go ahead and check in on janiceperson.com and let me know what you think about it. The biggest changes are: The [...]

I’ve talked about how I came to be on Twitter before but what happened after I got on…. not sure I could have anticipated that. Within a few months of being on Twitter, the tweeting agricultural community was clearly as a great source of information for me. I can still remember when I broke the [...]

When Neil Armstrong stepped out onto the surface of the moon he said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” That may be a bit over the top for a step I made this weekend, but it was a giant leap for my social media presence. I am now in full compliance [...]

A lot of the people who are involved in agriculture and who write blogs will probably recognize the social media hero I want to highlight this week. It’s Judi Graff aka @FARMnWIFE. There are a lot of reasons she is a social media hero to various people, but I get to make the list so [...]

Late Friday night, I read a blog post on Jeff Fowle’s blog about winter weather and the differences between locals being prepared and others seemingly careless. As I watched current weather reports and saw tweets from friends in the Pacific Northwest indicating they were fairly home-bound due to the storms hitting them, I thought about how [...]

As I look back over 2011, I think about how much the blog has changed — content, design, adding readers, etc. and wondered what I should be doing for 2012. came up with an idea. I don’t have to be the one who thinks up the ways to improve it — I’ll crowd source ideas [...]

After a week on the road, I got home on Saturday night. I had an incredible time with the family I was born into and extended family we’ve chosen. We had a big crowd with us and had a great time at the church camp I had grown up going to…. We rent it out [...]