My my my my my! Two years since my last post on this page and I decided to drop in and mention a few huge life changes. Every once in a while I feel an urge to start blogging again (indeed, looking at my drafts, I nearly kickstarted it up again in February 2015), but …
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the end of the blog
I haven’t been blogging lately and I haven’t felt much desire to. I’ve been keeping up with this little blob of webspace for over five years now, and it has grown stale. It’s not giving me the satisfaction it once did. This decision is actually a long time coming, before I started working in an …
2014 Resolutions
As a millenial and a twentysomething woman, I feel it is steeped in my cultural upbringing to admit for the billionth time that I love writing lists of goals, resolutions and things-to-do, then blog about those lists and potentially not follow through on most of what is listed on those lists. So here we go …
Ivory Pom’s notable posts of 2013
Good bye to you, 2013! Let’s do a quick recap of the most memorable moments: (True, Darwin was born in 2012 [just barely] but duh, he had a pretty big impact on my 2013.) January: Preparing for our trip from the US to Bishkek as a family, we had to get Darwin his first passport. …
Ivory Pomegranate on Instagram
After leaving Kyrgyzstan, I upgraded my candy-bar Nokia cell phone (that I had been using since 2007) to a smartphone. It not only has a color screen (!!!) but it also takes photos! Whoa, technology, cool! Anyway, I’m on Instagram now. It’s mostly photos of Darwin and random shots of Ghent, because I’ve been receiving …
Support Kyrgyz design!
(Update: Yay! The crowdfunding campaign was successful! Keep an eye on Kancha’s website for more information on how to purchase your own felt gadget sleeve if you’re interested.) I am lucky to have made some amazing friends while I lived in Bishkek. One such friend is a German guy named Tobias Gerhard. When he first …
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Reader Survey
Dear Readers! Coming up on my third blogging anniversary, I decided I’d like to learn more about you and created this short, 10-question reader survey. If you could please complete it as honestly as possible, I would very much appreciate it. I ran out of questions, but if you have any additional comments or suggestions …
whoops…
I’m on the cusp of resolving some computer issues that popped up earlier this week, but it has thrown off my blogging schedule for a bit. I’ll be back with regular posts next week!
Advertise on Ivory Pomegranate!
Time for a bit of shameless self-promotion. Have you noticed the new Advertising page up on the top menu bar? Well, my computer is making a horrendous crunchy sound lately (and no computer means no blog), so let me give you guys a quick sales pitch. You can now advertise on my blog! I’m using …