I’ve beena polyamory activist and educator for about ten years, and blogging is a great way of passing along what I’ve learned from my own experiences, as well as those of others. I focus on common challenges polyamorists encounter and their practical remedies, along with thoughts on related subjects such as community organizing, activism, and sexual freedom, and occasionally about my own lovely polyamorous life.
I’m a legal secretary with a ginormous Washington, D.C. regulatory law firm. I love my work, and it pays the bills. I’d love it if blogging on polyamory relationship skills were my job – who knows, maybe someday I’ll get to that point. I’m fortunate to to have an excellent blogging mentor. Time will tell.
For about ten years now, teaching polyamory relationship skill building has been my passion. This is largely true because developing the relationship skills needed to succeed at polyamory doesn’t come naturally for people. It is very rare indeed to meet someone who has had role models along those lines. I witnessed with frustration both online and at realtime polyamory community gatherings so many people sharing stories about coming to this way of relating and fairly consistently making the same mistakes and struggling with the same challenges. Soon it became clear to me that those of us who had skills to teach were in a position to make a big difference, and that was something I wanted to do. I believe very much in giving back to my community and the world. Eventually blogging was a natural outgrowth of that desire.
Only about six months. I attended a session on blogging at a conference. It gave me the skills and information necessary to get started, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.
I’m kind of embarrassed to say that I don’t know – but I’m learning all the time, and now you’ve inspired me to start tracking traffic.
Nope, no income. I haven’t been trying to make an income from it, it’s something I just do because I want to help people and seem to have some natural abilities to do so in my area of expertise.
Anyone who is considering or involved in polyamory, which is the desire and ability of consenting adults to love more than one person openly and honestly with the mutual consent of all involved. Polyamorous people commonly form long-term, committed relationships. Contrary to what some people assume, it’s not so much about having multiple sex partners as it is about the wealth of love and support we get day-to-day via the people we love.
Oh, it varies a lot. I only have the one blog, so some days I don’t post at all, and other days I may write something fairly lengthy. It depends on what happens to inspire me. Sometimes I take advice I’ve given in response to a post in the polyamory community on LiveJournal or on an e-mail list or yahoogroup and turn it into a blog post – very efficient, that, and my little way of reaching more people with less effort.
I’ll help you understand how to succeed at polyamory, also known as responsible non-monogamy. I’ll also keep you informed on what is going on in the polyamory community in the United States, and I’ll tell you what you might want to know about how to avoid being discriminated against at work, by friends and family, and in child custody cases because of your relationship orientation.
Write well! Do it cleanly and clearly. Proofread. Write from the heart – people will be drawn to you when you do. Resist the urge to be snarky, i.e. to say mean-spiritied things about other people. Not as many people think it’s cool as there are those who find it rude and unpleasant.
This blog can be visited at http://practicalpolyamory.blogspot.com