When I was little, my sister and I had a children’s book that had a picture of two men bowing to each other and saying, “After you.” “No, after you.” “No, after you.” While, all the time, in the margins, their beards were getting longer and longer. Because, of course,…
Social(izing) Media
Ah, Social Media. It’s everybody’s favorite, new buzzword. Really, though, it’s not exactly new. People have been interacting on the internet almost since its conception. (In fact, for all I know, the first transmitted item may well have been a message as simple as “Hi, How are you? LOL,” although…
Blogapalooza
I made it onto Robert Hruzek’s Blogapalooza, and you can, too! He has a self-imposed goal of 100 bloggers, and he only made it up to 92 and he wants more … and is asking everyone on the list to send him at least one more person. So, here’s your…
Moral Lesson
These boxes look remarkably alike, don’t they? That’s because they ARE! I went to Bath and Body Works on Saturday so that I could get some of my favorite body wash, but … I wandered all over the store, and they didn’t have it. Grr. Particularly frustrating, you know, because…
Good Company
Before I forget, I need to point you in the direction of a few very good posts with links to even more excellent reading. Joanna at Confident Writing: Simply the Best Posts of 2008 Melissa at Writing Forward: Creative Writing Tips from around the Blogosphere John at Pro Writing Tips:…
Shiny New
So, now that the year is all new and shiny, what are you doing? This isn’t going to be one of those “New Year’s Resolutions” lists. I figure you pretty much know the things you should be doing–exercising more, eating better, following up on leads, spending more time with the…
A Sextet of Information
So, Melissa wants to know 6 things about me, huh? Let’s see. 1. I can recite the entire alphabet backwards, just as easily as I can forward. Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S, R, Q, P, O, N, M, L, K, J, I, H, G, F, E, D,…
Library Card?
So … do you have a library? I mean, shelves in your own home, filled with books? I was just reading this essay from the NY Times about weeding out books from a personal library, and it got me thinking. Where books are concerned, there’s no question. I am a…
It’s a Blogapalooza!
Have you heard about the Middle Zone Musings Blogapalooza? He wants to know: Now, looking back at your archives, you’ll choose one post from every month you’ve been blogging in the year 2008. So how do you choose? Well, the question you have to ask yourself is, what was the…
Dumped On
So … you had your schedule all worked out. Your plans laid, your priorities clear … And then you get dumped on. Just like a snow storm came barrelling along to disrupt your well laid plans. The roads are bad, slippery, messy, treacherous. Suddenly, what was going smoothly and according…