If you’re not interested in maintaining a blog but would still like to make your adoption experience available to the public, or just to friends and family, there are other options.

The first is to set up a private discussion group, such as a Yahoo group where you can post pictures and information about your adoption plans and experiences. These groups can made public or private, depending on your preferences. You can even elect to have them not appear in the Yahoo groups directory if you’d like. You can post messages and photos, and members of your group can do likewise, depending on the way you set the group’s permissions. One advantage... more

First, decide where you want to host your blog. There are a variety of free blogging sites with blogging packages that will suit most beginning bloggers. Below is a list of some of the more popular options:

Blogger Word Press Type Pad Live Journal

There are even blogs for people with specific interests or lifestyles, such as:

Homestead Blogger Homeschool Blogger

Second, decide on what level of... more

If you’re reading this, you know what a blog is. You may even have one of your own. If you don’t, perhaps you’ve thought about creating one but worried that you wouldn’t have enough interesting things to say, or that no one would read it, or maybe that too many people would read it and it would be an invasion of your privacy!

I avoided blogging for many years because frankly, I thought it was stupid. Why would I want to share my private life with a bunch of people I don’t even know? Eventually though, I was convinced to give it a try. I’d been sending out a weekly email to members of our family and some friends, and I decided the same end might more easily be accomplished if... more