ByJane

According to the BlogHer stats, I have been a member for three years and, as of 12/21/09, forty four weeks. In that time, I've gone through two editing sessions with my bio. This time, I'm wiping the whole thing and starting anew. In the beginning, I was a feature magazine writer. I burnt out on writing for a living,however, so I decided--aha! I'll teach. For that I needed an additional degree, but somehow I didn't know when to stop. So now all these years later, I have two Master's degrees and am ABD (All But Dissertation) in English Lit. Then I started blogging. In the beginning, I blogged as ByJane. It was one of those Life blogs that had no focus other than whatever caught my attention at the moment. Then, one day a couple of years ago, I started MidLifeBloggers, and ever since, that has caught all my attention. MidLifeBloggers is an on-line magazine that features the writing, art, and photography of bloggers who identify as being in midlife (we start in our late 30s and go to our late 60s!). The topic of the posts aren't specific to any midlife issue; if it's happening to one of us, that's all that counts. Our BlogRoll is continually growing, as is the roster of those who write for us. Every Wednesday, we have the Writer's Workshop, and I just formally folded the ByJane blog onto MidLifeBloggers. In addition, we've got a new feature reviewing books, products and offering contests that are of interest to those in midlife.