A New Way to Prevent The Email Flood

Hi, everyone. I’m sure by now you’ve changed your discussion settings so your readers won’t be dealing with a lot of emails. You’ve also unsubscribed from email notifications on follow-up comments that you unknowingly subscribed to.

But there are still a lot of blogs with the ‘Notify me of follow-up comments via email’ option checked by default. And sometimes you forget to uncheck. Then you have to unsubscribe again because the emails keep coming.

Well, finally, WordPress has come up with a way for us to prevent that.

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Something Begins at 40

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So.  I turned 40 a few weeks ago.

Forty. The onset of midlife.

The most surprising thing about it is how exciting it feels. I may be sounding Oprah-ish here but life does suddenly seem full of possibilities and adventure and newness.  There is an impetus to do a wholesale shedding of what did not work in the past.  Or maybe I have suddenly become more aware that I do have a deadline for certain dreams that I’ve had all these years.

And the feeling of freedom! Very, very exciting.

We’re also barely two months in our new house (our own home, yey!).  The place, the routine, the people — everything seems new and yet so settled now in a very good way.

So I thought I’d start a new blog about all these.  I have a feeling this new stage will be very good for me.  So, shall we?

We shall.