It Was A Sabbatical

January 6, 2012

“Did you get lost in the shopping mall?” my reader asked. “Why aren’t you blogging?” No, I did not get lost in the shopping mall, and clearly she doesn’t know me very well. It takes an act of Congress to get me to enter the mall. Y’all realize, of course, that our current Congress rarely [...]

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Bumping Around

October 8, 2010

Lately my internet reading has reminded me of the bumper cars at the local carnival. I bump over to one blog and on to the next until my head is reeling. I thought I’d share a few links to just a fraction of the gems I often visit. It seemed appropriate for a Friday, which [...]

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Yeah, Baby! You Can Win A Free Mojo Bag With Just A Comment.

September 22, 2010

My friend Thorne has been “out of pocket” in the blogging world for awhile, as she worked on her ranch in the desert of Southern California. That gal wrangles rattlesnakes all day (she uses them for lassos). She rassles scorpions with stingers as big as your arm, and sticks them in her freezer to amaze [...]

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The Wright Stuff

September 2, 2010

Some mornings, I have to begin by seeking humor in order to face the world. Does that ever happen to you? This morning I pulled out a book of quotes and flipped to the page with observations by Steven Wright. Do y’all know him? He’s that sardonic comedian with the deadpan delivery that is so [...]

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Ready For Another Round Of Link Love?

March 22, 2010

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a little “link love” on my blog. The main reason is because when I look back on older posts with links I discover that many of the links are broken. I’m having to just remove the posts from my archives. What’s the deal here? People change their blog [...]

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Morning Coffee Is Good

February 25, 2010

No, I’m not talking about real coffee, although that’s pretty special. I’m talking about “Morning Coffee.” That is my contribution to this week’s Only The Good. It’s an application (or add-on) available for your Mozilla Firefox browser. I had no clue that it existed or that I wanted it until I read a post by [...]

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Digital Mom Meme

January 31, 2010

Some of y’all may know that for the past few months, I’ve been participating in BlogHer’s Family Connections citizen journalism project as a Momspotter. Basically that means I tweet a few times a day with the #momspotting hashtag about how I use technology in my day-to-day parenting life (actually, I talk more about just life, [...]

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Thirteen Reasons I’m Thankful — Turkey Is Not One Of Them

November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving! I imagine that you all are ready for the feasting and football. What? You haven’t slain the turkey yet? We haven’t either, because there will be no “traditional” Thanksgiving in our family this year. With our children scattered around the country, my Sweet Spousal Unit and I haven’t had a real Thanksgiving since [...]

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Proximidade Blogging Award

August 9, 2009

Don’t y’all just hate it when your body won’t cooperate? If you haven’t had that experience, you haven’t gotten as old as I am … yet. It’ll happen, if you are lucky. I despise getting old, until I consider the alternative. My back went all wonky on me last week. I’m pretty sure that my [...]

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It’s All Geek To Me

May 13, 2009

Have y’all ever been in a foreign country and didn’t speak the language? Perhaps you were surrounded by people who didn’t speak your language either. All of a sudden you have to go to the bathroom, but you don’t know the word to call it. When you try express yourself to ask someone where the [...]

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What To Do About Blog Comments

April 13, 2009

By serendipity, I have found two posts today talking about how to deal with blog comments. It’s one of those blogging dilemmas to which I have not found the correct answer. Rebecca at Just One More Page has a meme called “Musing Mondays.” Her questions for today were: How do you respond to the comments [...]

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Lost in the Bowels of My Blog

April 2, 2009

I’ve been lost in the “bowels” of my blog the last few days. It was time for some blogging maintenance! I can only concentrate on one thing at a time, and if I’m working on code and cleanup, my creativity suffers, so I have been “hiding out.” I had noticed in my statistics that a [...]

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No More “Peek-A-Boo” Blog

March 14, 2009

Can you see me now? My blog has been playing “Peek-A-Boo” with my readers and with me lately. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I hope it isn’t going to happen anymore since I changed domain name servers to Liquid Web. Regular readers will know that I’ve been frustrated with my old blog server for [...]

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The Play’s The Thing. Enter The Dentyne “Realationships” Playwrights Contest.

March 5, 2009

I know some of you out there sit at your desk slaving away writing stories and plays and such. Maybe you have a dusty manuscript stashed in a file drawer? Here is an opportunity you can’t afford to miss. I’d have told you about it much sooner, but I just got the e-mail today. Dentyne® [...]

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“Bloggy” Housekeeping

February 23, 2009

I hate it when I “bite off more than I can chew.” It happens in the real world and in my virtual blogging world (and I never seem to learn!). Do y’all ever do that? I get ambitious and think I can do tons of different things at once — then it comes crashing down [...]

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Blushing From Head To Toe–And Passing It On.

January 25, 2009

I’m as embarrassed as a possum up a plum tree! I always get that way when people say nice things about me. Momma didn’t teach me how to accept compliments, and I’ve never done it well. Last week, in one single day, I was bestowed two different awards (by two of my favorite blogging buddies). [...]

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A New Addiction For My Muse: Facebook

January 19, 2009

I told y’all that my Muse has been recalcitrant lately. All she wants to do is play mahjong. At least, that’s all she wanted until Jessica The Rock Chick corrupted her. Jessica had back surgery, and stopped blogging for awhile. Every time I e-mailed her, she answered me on Facebook. She couldn’t sit up to [...]

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Empty Words

January 14, 2009

In a storytelling workshop with 4th grade students this week, I had a child ask me a question that has given me pause. It made me start pondering my storytelling and my blogging. I told the kids that I didn’t start telling stories until I was in my thirties, although my life’s path had been [...]

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If You Have A Y Chromosome, This Is Probably Not A Post For You

January 10, 2009

Have y’all ever been out to eat with a group of people, and find that suddenly all the women get up and go to the bathroom together? A man would never turn to his buddy and say, “Hey, Bob, I’m going to the Men’s Room, you want to join me?” But, women do that kind [...]

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In Harmony

January 6, 2009

I visited the blog of my friend Robin, who lives just outside of Tel Aviv in Israel. I’ve been worrying about her since this latest war began, though she assures us she is “safe.”. She begs the question “what is the etiquette for blogging during wartime?” Robin lives in the center of the country, and [...]

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