The Face Behind The Hands

face-behind-the-blog.jpg I was tagged by Derek Wong, at Going the Wong Way, for the Face Behind the Blog meme. He had a good one with pictures from his childhood and a funny current one. It’s kind of nice to have a face to go with the words.

Now, y’all, I haven’t been shy about putting my face on this blog. Heck, I’m a performer and my mug can be found in other places on the internet. That’s me on the sidebar, trying to sell you one of my storytelling cds; I put a picture of me in concert on my About page (but don’t go look unless you want to get scared silly), and I even showed you a picture of me topless! Yes, I did, because I have no shame.

shelly_pitches_a_hissyfit.JPG But, in the spirit of showing you a little about me that I don’t show you every day, I’ll give this a try. I’ll begin by admitting something to y’all that I wouldn’t tell anyone else. Let it be known that Shelly is one of those people who likes to get her own way. I don’t do it so frequently anymore, but when I was little I was good at pitching a wall-eyed hissy fit. It never did me much good, but it got the frustration out. These days, I usually hold my temper. Usually.





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When I was a little girl, I couldn’t wait to get to drive a car! As a teenager, I enjoyed driving all the time. I cruised The Drag any chance I got. The Drag? Well, that’s the main street in a small town, where teenagers with raging hormones drive back and forth trying to “see and be seen.” If you had a date you were showing off. If you didn’t have a date, you were trying to get one. I was usually trying to get one!


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These days, driving isn’t nearly so exciting. Most of my school year is spent “on the road.” I do not enjoy that part of what I do. These days, driving is a drag! And, I don’t have to worry about getting a date anymore. My husband won’t let me go on one unless he is along for the ride.





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It stands to reason that anyone who will save a worm or a turtle on the road would love critters of all kinds. I do, and for some reason I always try to get kissy-face with them. They don’t always reciprocate.


shelly_outdoors.jpgI’ve always loved being outdoors. Hiking is one of my favorite things. When I was younger, I enjoyed slalom water skiing and sail boarding. Unfortunately, the man I married enjoys none of those things, but I’ll keep him anyway. There is much to be said for vacations where one “camps” in a four star hotel and lounges by the pool.

I perform on stage a lot.
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Other than that, it’s mostly sit at the computer. Those hands you see at the top of the page are mine (cartooned so that you can’t see the knots from the arthritis!). If I haven’t bored you silly yet, you can see a streaming video of me telling stories (if you have RealPlayer) here, here, or here. Or you can view me being interviewed at North Texas State University here. They seem to take a little while to load, but it could be because my computer is wonky.

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At this point, I am supposed to tag some people to continue the meme, and list links to all of the people who have participated.

Here are the others who have participated so far:

Gayla at Mom Gadget
Char at Essential Keystrokes
Paul at Reflections
Rob at 2Dolphins
Zep at The In-Sect

Ingo at Stixster
Stevie at Lost In Cyberspace
The Paper Bull at (oddly enough) The Paper Bull
Lisa Sabin-Wilson at Just A Girl In The World
Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com

Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home
Dennis Bjørn Petersen at Petersen Inc.
Randa Clay at Randa Clay Design
Drew McLellan at The Marketing Minute
Becky McCray at Small Biz Survival

Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great!
Steve Woodruff at StickyFigure
Dave Olson at Live the GREAT life that you desire
Greg at Become a Remote Control SEO
Ariane Benefit at Neat Living Blog

Genesis at the At Home Mom Blog
Armen at iFFECT.NET
Mihaela Lica at Online Public Relations
Tara at Graphic Design Blog
Doris Chua at Home Office Women

Edward Mills at Evolving Times
Tony D. Clark at Success from the Nest
Jonathan-C Phillips at SmartWealthyRich
Karen at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Lisa Gates at intrinsic life design

Rammel Firdaus at rammelfirdaus.com
Carol at Pentimento
Adam Kayce at Monk at Work
Thomas at Technical Blogger
Tammy Lenski at I Can’t Say That!

Chris Brown at Branding & Marketing
Rory Sullivan at Hamelife
Derek Wong at Going The Wong Way
Embuck at embuck.com
Ms. Q at QMusings

Shelly Tucker at This Eclectic Life
Steve at Ramblings from the Marginalized
Troy Worman at on!blog
Lilith at Lilith’s Owl Nest
Revov at REVO-OVER

Karin at Stop/Start
Sha at Sha Money Maker dot com
Derrick Sorles at Life By Design
Ken Xu at Mysites Advisor dot com
Roberta at Roberta Ferguson

Donovan at Blog That Outside
Leanne Wildermuth at Artist by Nature
Ingrid at Through My Eyes
Don Lawson at Affiliate Watcher
The Giddy Tiger at Giddy Tigers

Mike Busson at Twenty Steps
Rosemarie at Miscellaneous Matters
Charity at Design Adaptations
Nancy at Erik Quinn: The Heart of a Family
Robyn McMaster at Brain Based Biz

Chris at Chris Hoyt

There are several folks I would love to tag, but I don’t know if they want to remain anonymous. So, I tag the first five people who comment and say they want the links. Tell me, and I’ll add you here:

    Artist By Nature Blog
    Tumbled Words
    Through My Eyes
    Riley Central
    J’s Thoughts and Musings
    Life is RANTastic

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blogblowsmydress_sidebar.jpgDon’t forget to enter your funny post in This Eclectic Life’s This Blog Blows My Dress Up Contest! The deadline is fast approaching. There are several good entries, but I hope you share one, too. I still notice in my stats that people are reading the posts from the last contest.
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61 Comments on “The Face Behind The Hands”


Love the picture of you in the little car - how precious )

Great post and thanks for the link!

Thank you, Lisa. I appreciate your visit. And, you are so welcome for the link. That’s what it’s all about.~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 9:07 am
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Hi,

Nice chronological photo order. Love those black and white photos.

Have a nice day.

Thanks, Rammel. Had to skip the teenage years, because they were too ACKK! I love the old black and whites, too. Except that they “date” me! I appreciate your visit~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 9:39 am
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Thanks so much for sharing your story. I just love the photos. I’m with LIsa…the one in the car is precious.

Aww. Thanks. I tried hard not to be too overwhelming with the photos. The car one was my favorite, too. I wish I still had that little car!~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 9:47 am

The Face Behind The Hands…

June 12th, 2007 at 10:24 am
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Marcia said:

I want to play, please, but PLEASE tell me you did not have to recreate ALL those links? That you can just control C them or something? We know how I do with things like that. But, I so need the excuse to go through photos. . . Annie Oakley, I was.

The car picture is adorable, an AHHHHHH.

Who took the photo of you driving? I take photos of Leon like that all the time. How come you didn’t add a link at the anger reference to the carpet?

You can play!! No, don’t re-create the links. I copied them from the other site and had to put them on a blogger template, then copy the html. You have blogger don’t you? Copy and paste should work. Annie Oakley you was? I can hardly wait. Boy, Marcia, you ask questions! My friend Cathy took the photo of me driving. I was cussing, but you can’t hear me. I didn’t add the anger link because I forgot. Nobody but you follows the links anyway lol ~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 10:52 am
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Damien Riley said:

I like the outdoor picture! Reminds me of camping! Cool meme. Obviously my face is all over the place . . . no need to crack any more mirrors than we need to. he he he. lol lol cool cool

Yes, but you are taking it anyway. Why? Because I said so (I sound like my mother!)~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 11:25 am
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Ingrid said:

Thank you for sharing with us! I loved this posts and the pictures are excellent! I just missed the cut off but I am feeling a similar post brewing in me so I may have to dig through the photo album and do this anyway. Is that Blog-lically correct?

Anyway, Thanks again for sharing!

You aren’t too late, and you are in the meme. Thanks for droppin’ by~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 11:42 am
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Derek Wong said:

Thanks for playing along, Shelly! I enjoyed seeing these cool pictures of you. They definitely show a little bit of a different side of you.

And I did know that you have a lot of pictures and personal information already out there on your site, so I’m glad that you found a way to show something different.

Thanks, Derek. I resisted putting in the picture where it looks like I’m sticking my finger up my nose! grin ~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

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June 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Thank you very much for the link love.

I just love to see all the photos that has come out of this list!

It’s been fun seeing “who’s who,” hasn’t it?~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Ohhhh, I love your pictures and the stories!!! Very cool Shelly. I would play along, but you’ve already pretty much seen every picture of me I have shock

Glad you think my sense of humor is healthy twisted I do my best…. cool J
Jessica

Yes, you do! Thanks for coming by, Rock Chick Sister~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
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Jamie said:

Those are wonderful pictures. The 8 things I know post is up.

And, your post is the best one yet! It’s amazing!~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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Jen said:

These are great pictures of you, so animated! Alas, besides being the woman behind the blog, I am usually the woman behind the camera, but I think that I just may do this.

do you know how hard it was for us to find a car like that for our boys when they were small? Once we found two plastic knock offs, they loved them. But boy, they don’t make toys like that anymore.

No, they don’t. My boys had a plastic “beep beep jeep” that they drove into the ground lol ~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
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Rory said:

Wonderful pictures, Shelly. Thank you for giving us a little bit of your history - and making it so entertaining.

I loved your “life in chapters” series.~skt

June 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

Here’s another vote for the photo with the car. Fantastic!

Thanks very much for joining in and for linking back to my site. I’ll add you to the original list.

All the best!

Wish I was still that cute, David! I appreciate that you started this meme. Thanks for visiting, too.~skt

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June 13th, 2007 at 1:50 am
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UKStevieB said:

The one’s I liked the best were of you ‘up close and personal’ with the critters, probably because I am such an lover of beasties myself. grin

Yeah, I have more where I’m kissing critters, but it gets disgusting after awhile. I could have posted the one with our python~skt

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June 26th, 2007 at 7:11 am

The Face Behind The Blog…

Shelly at This Eclectic Life tagged me to participate in The Face Behind The Blog meme. Shelly has a great collection of old photographs from her childhood days - now I don’t have that many in my possession, but I’ll do my best.
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July 1st, 2007 at 11:18 am
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Rosemarie said:

Great pictures and descriptions to fill us all in. Thanks for passing on the meme. I was tagged through Ingrid. Come see the face behind the voice!

PS I added you as another participant on the post.

Thanks, Rosemarie. I hope you went back to the original post to link to it. There are a lot of wonderful folks in the blogosphere who have posted the Face Behind The Blog.~skt

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