Caterwauling- Dawn

It slices, it dices, it juliennes! OK, it’s way less useful than that. But it’s a creative outlet for a 30-something workaholic about jobs, life, work, boys and general pontificating about everything and nothing in particular.

Work is pretty much the only thing I’ve identified on the planet that I am good at, so I do a lot of it. Well, it’s pretty demanding anyway, as I’m an editor with a financial publishing company, so I oversee several newsletters pertaining to what the

I know I’m smart, but I don’t have to prove that to anybody. But what intrigues me most is that whole field of emotional intelligence. I’m fascinated by emotions and human nature and interpersonal interactions. So I explore them. Exhaustively, at tim

I started blogging in 2001, on Diaryland. Then a friend introduced me to Blogger in 2002, which was when I began taking this whole “online journaling” phenomenon seriously.

I have hidden my blog entries prior to late 2004, when I lost a job over

In my heyday, I was getting 300,000 a year. But I’ve gone low-key since then (as it went offline for awhile) and I never really did anything much to generate traffic after that.

My reader base is pretty organic — I’d say it’s 60% people who have

I tried using ads for awhile. I didn’t earn anything from them. I am thinking about putting ads in my feeds, but it’s not a priority. I’d be happy just to cover my hosting costs, but clearly, I’m willing to pay as much as it takes to have my little s

Anyone who would go out to a drag queens’ parade. I’m not kidding — my readership is mostly female, with a lot of gay men thrown in the mix. I know I have the straight male faction, too, because I get dates out of the blog. But the emotional inte

I type ridiculously fast, so not very long. If I give it 30 to 60 minutes in a day, that’s good for one substantial entry or two quick ones. I find myself Twittering a lot because it’s something I can do on-the-go from my iPhone or between meetings a

Because I’m good enough, and people like me. OK, enough with the Stuart Smalley jokes!

The one talent I’ve always had was writing and, in turn, storytelling. If I believe in someone or something, I will fight to the death to defend them. And I bel

Forget that anyone is reading you. I mean it. This is a record of your life, not theirs. Don’t pretend to feel passionate about that which bores you. We can tell when you’re trying to please us, and the effort turns out hollow and meaningless.

And

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