by Robin | Feb 29, 2012 | Brand partnership, Health, Vicks VapoRub Bloggers
Back when I joined Vicks VapoRub for their Winter campaign, I had no idea a few months later I'd be in another country 5,000 miles from home. How in the world could I write a natural cough-and-cold-ish story that would support a product sold in the...
by Robin | Dec 29, 2011 | Christmas, Vicks VapoRub Bloggers, Winter
A thousand years ago ~ or so it seems ~ I was anticipating The Best Christmas Ever, the first one with our first-born daughter. Though she was only four months old, Christmas was magical again, something that was missing without children around. I...
by Robin | Nov 30, 2011 | Health, Memoir, Nostalgia
The way my father expressed TLC sometimes tilted toward the rough and gruff, but there was no mistaking it as Love In Action; and it provided substance for some of my earliest childhood memories. Sometimes I think there's something wrong with me, though: my...
by Robin | Oct 22, 2011 | Blogging, Sponsored post, Vicks VapoRub Bloggers, Writing
Although I have no way of calculating percentages, I know my readership is comprised of both bloggers and non-bloggers. One of the most-common questions I'm asked by those who know me outside of the blogging worlds is "Do you make any money...