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Monetizing My Blog

  Copyright Glo Lewis 8/7/2023   Dear Readers of My Blog, 💕   Monetizing A Blog: I sure hope that you are all healthy and as happy as is possible in this hard time. Here’s my own challenging predicament: When one tries to monetize their blog with Google’s AdSense, they soon discover that every requirement has several links to explore, each with maybe six more links with paragraphs of requirements that go on like Russian Matryoshka dolls only more so, far more so. Google itself notes, when discussing such keepsakes, that these dolls are also known as “ stacking dolls, nesting dolls, Russian tea dolls, or Russian dolls, are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another.” And I guess every author must at least once in their life echo Winston Churchill in saying that something too mysterious is, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” He was referring to Russia in 1939. Each AdSense link opens an increasingly overwhelming set of l...

Opening Character Dossiers

  Copyright Glo Lewis 7/31/2023   Dear Readers of My Blog, 💙   Character Dossiers: I hope so much that you are all doing well. I have been thinking about you and this blog post for days, yet life kept getting in the way. But here we are now, so let’s begin. Below you will find the dossiers on three of my main characters. If circumstances dictate that I create other main characters, I will develop a dossier for them as well, but the three that I have developed below are my start. You may wonder about how to create names for characters. My approach is simply to think of someone whom I’ve known in past times, and then to research in Google names in their ethnicity, e.g., Italian names or English names. Alternatively, if your muse directs you and you feel comfortable with that information, go with it, so long as you will not embarrass or defame anyone. My Three Main Characters Thus Far:   Joseph Paul (Joe) Mancini: It is 1958. Oakland, California. ...