The Modern Gal

Teach a gal to fish

Published on 2010-08-01 15:33:00

So a few months back I decided I'd done enough hemming and hawing about moving my blog from ye ol' Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress site. I went ahead and snapped up themoderngal.com and nailed down a host. The Modern Gal needed freshening up a bit too, so what better time to send her to the powder room? Well, I contacted a designer who's work I admired to inquire about a redesign and migration of archives from Blogger to Wordpress, and well, let's just say this designer quoted me a price with

Public service announcement

Published on 2010-07-29 20:15:00

Modern Friends, after several months of banging my head against the wall I've managed to tie down a slightly better domain name in themoderngal.com and have located hosting space and have installed wordpress.org and all that great jazz that the rest of you figured out a long time ago. I'm in the process of attempting to migrate my blog over that way. Take that obnoxious comment spammers!*Hopefully* you won't notice a change in your RSS feeds, but if you do, I apologize in advance. I'm totally fe

Stay: The lady behind the book

Published on 2010-07-28 20:00:00

Have you gotten your copy of Stay yet? No??? Here's the Amazon link. I'll STAY here and wait until you take care of that....Now that you've taken care of that, Allie did me the huge favor of answering some of the questions I had about Stay, and I hope you'll enjoy her answers as much as I did:MG: While reading, I noticed several Allieisms in Stay: Van and her mother's love of Boston and an exchange where Van and Agnes call each other 'Lady.' How much of your own personality did you put into Stay