I need to overhaul this blog. It's grown so cluttered. Everyone tells me I should migrate off Typepad to something else, and I really like Squarespace, which I used to build The Writers Place's new website, but the thought of spending all that time recreating something (not to mention I have zero funds for such an endeavor) is completely too intimidating. So I'm going to be hacking away here a little bit to see if I can dust off the spiderwebs.

When I started blogging, I knew about Internet publishing from a words perspective, but nothing about the technical aspects. When I started working at BlogHer, I realized I needed to teach myself HTML. Then I started hacking all sorts of stuff on this blog in my sidebars to the point I'm not sure if any of the original code even exists anymore. It's the same approach I take with gardening: Stick some stuff in there and see if it grows into things it's not supposed to. If so, rip it out and start over.

Last weekend, I ripped out everything but two cherry tomato plants, because it's going to frost soon and I can't stand to wake up to the little frozen wilted bodies of flowers and vegetable plants. My vegetable plants die young and beautiful. 

So if there are any categories you wish were beefed up or navigation you wish existed, let me know in the comments. I'm going to be updating best of, but I don't know which posts to put there. Any suggestions are appreciated! Stay tuned.