How to Buy an Ad | Mary Beth Danielson Writes

Are you a small (not chain) shop or at-home business or craft person? Would you like to advertise your product or event? Would you like to offer public congratulations to a friend or relative?

Would you like to do this for $12 a month!!??

We are not connected to any blog hosting or website service; it’s just Len the Drupal wizard and MB the Writer here. We think we can use our independence to give you a modest way to market your side-hustle or give a cheerful shout-out to pals and family.

This is how: Fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Include your name and email plus less than 15 words that you'd like to include in your ad. I'll get back to you ASAP with a sample ad. If you'd like to include a small photo, let me know and I'll send you information about how you can get your pix to me. Your ad that will run on the right side of every page of my website for a month.

We reserve the right to say no to iffy stuff or to companies big enough to buy their advertising in the regular places.

Cost is $12 per month. $2 will go to Women’s Funding Network at http://www.womensfundingnetwork.org/ Causes may change occasionally.

Things to consider: Don’t include the faces of people who aren’t aware they will be in an ad. Side views are safest, especially for children. Don’t take random photos from the internet; use your own. We will often use background hues in the boxes- do you have a fav color? We plan to email a sample ad for you to peruse BEFORE it’s posted. If you are interested but unsure, communicate with us.

We will set up a credit card/ PayPal account when/if this takes off. For the moment, email to me and I will give you my PO address to which to send a check or money order.

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Len’s Birthday

11/30/2023

Last week I mentioned that Monday of this week would be Len’s birthday. A friend remarked to me ever so kindly later that day, “I thought his birthday was the 30th?”

It is. Len’s birthday is the 30th. This same friend has commented to me, over the years, about how much I remember.

Covid Diary #1350 Thanksgiving

11/22/2023

Today is 1350 days since the that March Friday in 2020 when we all went into quarantine.

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Today is 60 years since JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963. I remember that day, so does Len, so do many of you. Here’s a scary truth. We are as far today from that day – as that day was from the Wright brother’s first flight at Kitty Hawk on Dec 17, 1903.

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Quarantine Diary #1349 Sci-Fi & Prophecy

11/21/2023

We both took Covid tests this morning and both of us still have pink lines. I asked the internet what this means and it says I might be pregnant.

I have a call into my doctor’s office to discuss. I feel so much better that if I didn’t know I have Covid, I wouldn’t know it. I’ve been sicker than this after too much pie.

Covid Diary #1348 Memoir & Scuppernong

11/20/2023

Three Things Since Yesterday

This is my fifth day of having Covid with all the lovely side trimmings. Aches, chills, fever (a little), prodigiously runny nose, and coughing ala Len’s Grandpa Leo who taught his little namesake, “It’s not the coughin’ that you’re coughin’ but the coffin they carry you off in.” Also, we have realized that neither of us is smelling anything. Weird how you don’t miss it until you open a clementine and there is no poetry. All you Covid veterans – how long before one’s sense of smell comes back?

Covid Diary #1347

11/19/2023

A few of you might realize yesterday we were 1345 days since March 13, 2020, and today we’re at 1347. Yup, I used a different calculator. Just a fun reminder that precision depends as much on asking the right question as doing perfect math.

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I’m in day #4 of having Covid. No more chills. I have a fever of 100.4 which is more impressive than the 100.2 that Len achieved on his Day #4. I’m taking various OTC meds and I keep track of them in my phone’s notes because, wow, it’s so easy to have no memory of the last time one took something. I’m good. Enough.

Covid Diary #1345

11/18/2023

I thought I was done with the Covid Diary but guess what? Len and I caught Covid this week! Actually, Covid caught us. We have continued to wear masks in stores, library, meetings, and our church so we will never know for sure where Len encountered Covid. And since I got it four days later, I guess we know where I got it…