April is for Blogging Fools
April is here and for many bloggers, me for example, that means the A to Z Blogging Challenge at http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com. If you are particularly crazy, another challenge can be included too. So...
View ArticleComparing Myself to a Summer’s Day – a Blogging Challenge
TODAY’s PROMPT Today’s post comes from the NaBloPoMo prompt: “Compare yourself to an element of nature” which was the prompt suggested for yesterday, April 2nd, because the A to Z treatment of Reason...
View ArticleWet Earth in Spring
The prompt I'm using today comes from Nablopomo and I've chosen it because today is the day for the Letter D in the Blogging A to Z Challenge: “In Spring at the end of the day you should smell like...
View ArticleFortuitous Foreshadowing
I am republishing most of a 2009 post that illustrates what a consistent vision can do. I have been moving to the point where I am now steadily over the last few years. It is good to look forward and...
View ArticleSunday is a Day Off or a Day for Free Writing
Since I am writing, it definitely is not a day off, so this must be free writing. The A to Z Blogging Challenge that is taking place this month gives participants a day off each week. I really,...
View ArticleSpinning Out After A Conference
Friday and Saturday I attended a conference with the hashtag #BBCPHX even though it had nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Company, except perhaps for one attendee, Jan Ziff, and was held in...
View ArticleReflections, Reality, Reorganizing: a post in which I assess my writing...
Ok, this one is a real request for your opinions. I’m trying to figure out what to do next with sites, blogs, writing, and generally my career for the next however many years. Some of you know me in...
View ArticleNaBloPoMo: Writing Every Day and Serving Whom?
I am contemplating signing up for September’s NaBloPoMo over at BlogHer. A pledge to write everyday is no biggy for me, but a pledge to post every day on the same blog is a bit of a serious...
View ArticleOf Cats, Keyboards and Chromebooks
My recent tech saga, The Cat Vomit Chronicle, appears to have come out with a rather happy ending after all. This is NOT a sponsored post, not one cat-scratched word of it. But every word of it is...
View ArticleGood Enough vs Top of the Line Writing Tech
I love technology. There is some sort of undeveloped engineer somewhere inside of me. In yesterday’s post I wrote about my recent experience with process of computer repair and replacement, the...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Winona Lake Bible Conference 1915
I woke up feeling a bit down in the dumps today. Sometimes I become a homesick for times and places to which I once had connections. Today I decided to take a trip down memory lane via the digital...
View ArticleGeorge Bailey and I Changed the World
A prompt in this month’s NaBloPloMo challenge involves writing about collective service actions and whether you feel you have changed the world. The actual challenge (for tomorrow, but who is...
View ArticleReframing September: Peace, Chocolate, Generations and Museums
I in no way desire to diminish the remembrances that so many people observe this month related to the sad day of the 11th of September. I try to re-frame as many sad events as possible in order to...
View ArticlePosting When I Don’t Feel Like Posting
It is Sunday, day 15, of September NaBloPoMo, so I’m going to post something, but even as I write these words I have no idea what this post will end-up being about. Today I have mainly thinking about...
View ArticleEnemy of the Little Gal – Koch
Remember when the little woman stayed at home, was painstakingly coiffed, had perfectly mannered children, always had dinner on the table just as the hubby walked in… Neither do I. But the myth is...
View ArticleDragon Flies and Fairies for Wordless Wednesday
Scientific Illustration Wordless Wednesday was going to just be this page from an out of copyright journal article, Packard, A. S. The Dragon-Fly (August 1, 1867) The American Naturalist, Volume 1.,...
View ArticleMy Life, Tucson, and Autumn
I first visited Tucson in October. It was a gorgeous autumn. Warm, but not too warm. Sunny, but with the long, slanted light of fall, not the pounding sun of summer. I had visited the Flagstaff and...
View ArticleFreebie Digital Background Images and Textures
I love playing with graphics. I talk about this love at least once a week it seems. So even though I posted some images yesterday, I want to share some textures I created. Yes, I am working on an...
View ArticleClassic Commercial Art Posters from the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
It is yet another Wordless Wednesday and today I want to share one of the neatest commercial advertising art books I’ve run across since I regularly began searching through the Internet Archive. If...
View ArticleA is for April and an Abject Attitude
I have not been able to figure out what is going on with me lately. I cannot write, or concentrate, or work. I start wonderful pieces of writing and then lose interest and decide to take a nap. I got...
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