Hahn at Home- Lori Hahn

Sure I just put the milk in the cupboard and the backpack in the fridge, and sometimes I pull out with the kids still standing in the garage, but that’s normal, right? Being 46, single-parenting teens, working full-time plus, and being on my never-ending quest for my Samantha Stevens gets a bit distracting…even in this paradise known as Sacramento.

I’m a tiny middle-management cog in a giant wheel inside an international corporation. The left and right side of my brain are constantly struggling for control–the voices aren’t so bad once you get used to them.

I started blogging as a therapeutic exercise when I went through a partnership dissolution. My buddy Chris at www.redhogdiary.com and I started blogging together, and here we are 19 months later, still plugging away.

19 months–hello, hello, is this thing on?

Right now, I’m up to about 400 per day. It took a big leap thanks to Cap’n Dyke at lesbianpiratequeen.wordpress.com linking to me.

My blog does not have an income. I’m advertising-free on purpose.

Lesbians, single-parents, parents of adopted children, adopted multi-racial families, crazy and/or warped people, really hot women who want to date me, people who want to give me money.

The writing, maybe an hour – depending on what’s buzzing around in my head and whether I’ve had a glass of wine or not. The reading of those on my blog roll, maybe another hour. Hey, I don’t have a girlfriend, so I have like six hours a day I split between sleep and blogging.

I don’t like to tell anyone to do anything–oh, wait, yes I do. People should subscribe to me because I’m real and cute…remember, I’m looking for a girlfriend.

My advice to new bloggers would be to find your voice. Write about what you know in your own particular style. It’s easy to try and replicate success (Dooce, for example–who has a bazillion imitators), but authentic will win every time over trying to be someone you aren’t. Oh, and please – locate spell check and grammar check – I can’t tell you how many people I know won’t read a blog when the blogger can’t put together a coherent sentence (unless you are a Haiku poet–then, you get some latitude).

This blog can be visited at http://www.hahnathome.com