Vicki's Voice

Archive for August, 2010

Back in February I added a “Jim’s Blog” page to Vicki’s Voice initially to answer some questions people had about setting up a blog. I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of Vicki’s story and writing with general computer talk, so I added the separate page. If you read Jim’s Blog, you’ll see that my new posts have been relatively infrequent, but have included thoughts and links not related to computers but connected to dementia-related material I’ve come across.

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from another WordPress blogger (WordPress is the software we use for our sites) asking how I set up this second blog page on Vicki’s Voice since he’d also like to write and publish posts about a different topic and nature than his main one. So here I am trying to remember what I did on this site way back in February (when it was cold and snowy).

“Jim’s Blog” is not exactly a separate blog, but rather a “Page” which shows any post I add to Vicki’s Voice for which I select the “Jim’s Blog” Category when I write the post. Right now, Vicki and I choose from about 5 different Categories we’ve set up.

Setting up the Jim’s Blog Page was relatively straightforward. After logging in to the blog on WordPress, on the Dashboard I selected Pages > Add New. After giving the page a Title, looked at “Page Attributes” on the right hand column and kept (no parent) as the Parent option. I Published the new page and it appeared on the top navigation bar of Vicki’s Voice.

OK. This is as far as I can go now. What I haven’t been able to find is how I set this up the Jim’s Blog Category to post on the “Jim’s Blog” page instead of the main blog. I’ll keep looking and add to this post when I find out, or when someone posts a solution in the Comments to this post. And of course there are likely to be more elegant solutions people are using. We’ll see what response we get.

Jim

Today is Sunday.

I thought it was Monday. I believed it so much I believed the date/time stamp was messed up on my laptop. So much so that I rebooted my satellite dish, downloaded new programming and it was only when the tech said, laughingly, “It’s Sunday, Ms Bedderd. Nothing is broken. Happens to us all.”

But I still hope it’s Monday. I’m still somewhat confused how I lost a day in my brain, so thoroughly that I would have argued with her, but the evidence supported her theory that it is Sunday.

Yesterday, browsing over my FB Newsfeed, a name of person caught my eye. One of those charismatic religious leaders. It was a link posted by a generous, devoted Catholic. And I blew up, and wrote a wretched note about the whole thing. And something hit me. I wrote her, removed my inappropriate remarks, she in turn removed her defense. And then she wrote me a note, forgiving me.

So, although in my heart it’s Monday, I will accept it is Sunday. The Lord’s day. Let us be glad and rejoice…

Papa, are you there?? It’s me, Vicki

Photo by Bruce Bane.