Website rebuild
WordPress.com tutorial: Stats section
In this five-minute video, I will show you the backend of my website and help you to understand the data you see in the WordPress.com Stats section, including traffic and insights.
"The function of language is to communicate things clearly."
Rules around grammar, syntax, and style help make communication easier. As an editor, it’s my job to create and enforce those rules.
But, I have learned that many of our so-called rules are “more like guidelines than actual rules.”
That’s why I take a shame-free approach to editing.
Want to learn more about my approach?
In rural West Virginia lies a retreat center that’s home to a rare albino peacock.
It’s considered lucky to see this peacock, let alone photograph it.
As I strolled the grounds one afternoon, the peacock started chasing me.
As I turned to face him, the peacock displayed his feathers, and I captured this photo. That’s why the peacock became the inspiration for my logo.
What’s your inspiration?
MY HEART, like a peacock on a rainy day, spreads its plumes tinged with rapturous colours of thoughts, and in its ecstasy seeks some vision in the sky, with a longing for one whom it does not know.
In this five-minute video, I will show you the backend of my website and help you to understand the data you see in the WordPress.com Stats section, including traffic and insights.
Aargh! I broke my website and now I have to fix it!
If you’ve followed me for a long time, you know that I used to blog as Magnolia2Mumbai. Well, it seems that when I moved to my jeanspraker.com domain, that I did not quite follow website domain transfer best practices, and I broke my website.
As part of their event, Pen America encouraged those who could not be in New York today to submit our own readings.
This reading from Haroun and the Sea of Stories is from chapter 10, Haroun’s Wish. The speaker who opens the excerpt is Khattam-Shud, whose name means “completely finished or over and done with” according to the book’s glossary.
At first glance, a book on Indian historiography might not seem easily accessible to a general audience.
Yet, Thapar’s prose is lucid, and her tone remains conversational without losing its scholarly authority. Thapar connects arguments about the past to our present quite beautifully.
This One Book book choice and its companions like the others before it reflect the diversity of this city. But it also shows how limited the resources truly are.
There’s a story about my maternal grandmother, Mom-Mom, and it goes something like this. My grandmother was always an avid reader. Despite dropping out of