Bleeding Espresso

Today is the third birthday of the wonderfully informative ExpatWomen.com, a comprehensive, global website helping women living overseas.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend doing so.

ExpatWomen.com features the following:

• 1,000+ content pages
• 1,000+ expat women blogs
• 200+ readers’ stories
• Invaluable country resource pages
• Interviews with successful expat women
• Loads of motivational articles
• Inspirational blog and newsletter
• Ongoing contests
• Much, much more!

And since it’s the site’s birthday, today is the perfect time to stop in, say hello, and have a look around.

P.S. Head over to wish a Happy 3rd Blogiversary to dear Robin’s My Melange as well!

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Are you getting ready for more Bleeding Espresso? I sure hope so, because I’ll be back very shortly with new posts, new contests, interviews, an exciting foodie event, and more!

Which, I suppose, means no more of this:

Oh well. Just to be clear, I will *not* be sorry to see August go. Stinking heat and a village full of tourists gets old pretty fast to this peace-and-quiet-loving gal.

In the meantime, since Bleeding Espresso will be going through some changes (including design!), please take a moment to let me know what you’d like to see more and less of here at the blog.

For those who have already done so via Twitter and Facebook, your input is *molto* appreciated! And to everyone else, please do add your two beans!

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Or, in italiano:

Yes, Bleeding Espresso is ready for a break, although I personally am not going on vacation. I’ll still be here in Badolato, still working full-time, and still making appearances on Facebook and Twitter, but without writing blog posts, I’ll have more time to spend with P’s family (many of whom are visiting from around Europe) and enjoy all the fun stuff going on here in the village throughout August:

(Click to see larger image, and then click that image for even larger print.)

Come join in if you need a ferie too!

Buon agosto!

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Adesione all’appello di Diritto alla Rete contro il DDl Alfano che imbavaglia la Internet italiana.

P.S. For those who don’t speak Italian but want to know what’s going on, there is an English explanation at Diritto alla Rete.

Bloggisti unite!

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Back in December 2006, one of the reasons I started blogging was to drum up freelance writing business. I’ve been *very* lucky that this has indeed happened and that my career has continued to grow even in the face of a horrible economy.

Unfortunately, posting here five days a week is becoming increasingly difficult as I pursue more writing opportunities (including trying to make time for a novel or two!), so starting today, I will be posting here at Bleeding Espresso every three days.

When reconsidering my posting schedule, at first I thought to post Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but that would mean losing Love Thursdays, and I don’t want that. And I also don’t want to lose What’s Cooking Wednesdays either.

So I decided to allow for posting on all different days so I can keep up with some regular features and possibly even go back to an old one–Sunday Scribblings. So yes, there will now be occasional weekend posts as well, if that’s when the third day falls.

Another positive note is that I think you, as readers, will be better able to keep up with posts here (I personally can’t keep up with reading blogs that post every day!); with fewer posts, I should also be able to respond to comments more fully and thoughtfully, visit more of your blogs, and meet up with you throughout the web more often.

If it seems that I’ve thought too much about this and wasted a post talking about it, so be it, but I didn’t want to just start “missing” days without an explanation; I felt I owed this post especially to loyal readers who have helped Bleeding Espresso grow over the years.

Your support is appreciated more than you know, and I hope you’ll continue reading!

And how was *your* weekend?

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