As I talked briefly about a few posts back, a blog badge is a neat little graphic that you make available to other bloggers (and webmasters) so they can post it as a cool link to your blog on their own web pages.

Why would they do post this? Well, hopefully you’ve got some well written, exciting content, and a history of producing such content, that a fellow blogger/webmaster feels worthy of sharing not only a link or reference to a specific post, but one to your blog in its entirety.

As I previously mentioned Almost-American.com’s blog badge (featured right in the side-bar) was a quick little Adobe Photoshop exercise for Mrs. Almost American. The badge itself, however, is only half the story. Continue reading »

 

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother. – W. Shakespeare (Henry V)

In Shakespeare’s play Henry V, Monarch of England, rallies his vastly outnumbered, fearful and dispirited troops before the battle of Agincourt. The Saint Crispin’s Day Speech might be one of the most inspiring speeches in classic literature. As King he reaches into the hearts of his troops, equalizing himself as their brother, shrugging any notion of self-interest and uniting them their dangerous but potentially glorious pursuit.

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My wife, Mrs. Almost American, has been dutifully reading over my shoulder, critiquing my writing and providing an extra set of eyes to assess my theme, layout and design choices (all in addition to doing the artwork for my header image and blog badge).  She now, however, tires of being a bystander to my blog and has decided to take the leap into blogging herself – albeit on my blog!

So, without further ado I’d like to introduce Mrs. Almost American. Continue reading »

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