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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Expect The Unexpected

July 19, 2011

I woke up Monday morning, and I was feeling pumped! I was thrilled because I was getting back in the swing of writing for this blog. After a weekend filled with frolic, I had interesting subjects for my posts. Y’all, that hasn’t happened for awhile, because I have been busily making afghans for Share A [...]

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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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Twitter Support Is For The Birds

November 19, 2009

If you have a Twitter account, you’d better hope that nothing goes wrong with it, because you will be flying on your own. It all works great until you have a problem. Then you will find that Twitter support seems to be totally unreachable. Perhaps I shouldn’t complain, since the Twitter social networking “service” is [...]

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If It’s Not Fun, Don’t Do It

July 29, 2009

Y’all see this little girl on the slide? That six year old still lives inside my heart some forty-nine years later. I look like I’m on top of the world, don’t I? Well, let me tell you about that day. I remember it well after all these years. Daddy and his brother, Uncle Denny, took [...]

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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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“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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I’m Tentatively Breathing Again

February 7, 2009

I tell you what! I was holding my breath there for a couple of days. I was frantically pulling my hair and moaning. I was ready to give up completely on trying to make this blog work. I’m almost afraid to say it … I might jinx the whole thing … Shhhh… it seems my [...]

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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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There Is No Need To Be Pre POSTEROUS

October 10, 2008

Well, actually now I guess I have to say I’m POST posterous. But, I was pre-posterous a few minutes ago. No, I’m not just talking drivel. I’m trying to tell you about a cool new tool I just discovered. It’s a free place to blog from your e-mail or from your cell phone. It’s called [...]

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But, You Can’t Spell “Mediocre” Without “Me!”

August 17, 2008

When I was in high school (which was too many years ago to count), there were basically four different “crowds” to which a kid could belong. You had your “Popular, Cool Kids,” the “Hippie Freaks,” the “Geeks,” and the “Band Qu**rs” (that’s what we called them in the days before “political correctness,” “The Band Qu**rs,” [...]

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Too Good To Be True, and The Power of Story

August 12, 2008

I read this story in a book this weekend: Many years ago, back when airlines had to offer promotions to get your money, United Airlines offered a deal called, “Fly Your Wife for Free.” Businessmen were encouraged to buy a ticket for a trip and they would receive a ticket to take their wives along [...]

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Is She Really Bleeding Espresso?

August 11, 2008

I have a delightful friend that I want you to meet. I think you’d really like her. When I first started reading Bleeding Espresso, Michelle Fabio called herself “Sognatrice.” She has since decided to ‘fess up and tell folks her real name (you really can’t hide on the WWW, can you?). Michelle is an ex-patriated [...]

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Guy Kawasaki Distracts Me

August 8, 2008

Guy Kawasaki made me do it. Yes, he did, and I don’t even know the guy fellow. I mean, I know who he is, don’t you? He was an “Apple Guy Fellow” once, and he’s the mover and shaker behind Alltop. I follow him in Twitter. I stole his picture… do you think he will [...]

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Jonesing for Blogging

July 21, 2008

It’s a sad thing to be on a journey to places you have never seen, and spend half your time trying to connect to the internet! We are on the final leg of a journey to the Southland. Y’all know how excited you get to go on a trip? How for days you plan and [...]

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An Idea for Alltop Categories

April 18, 2008

Do you ever have time to blog surf, and just don’t know where to find blogs? I’ve told y’all before about Alltop.com, which is THE place to go to find a wealth of fine bloggers. It was started by Guy Kawasaki, and if you don’t have Guy’s blog in your feed, you should! He’s got [...]

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I Think You are Going To Like Alltop.com

April 3, 2008

Do y’all ever go searching for new blogs to read, and flit from blog to blog. Sometimes, you follow commentors. Other times you look at blogrolls. All that work in the quest for something new. You don’t have to do that searching anymore. Have y’all visited Alltop yet? Their motto is “We’ve got all the [...]

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