I'll be posting a love poem next weekend for Valentine's day...
Not your usual Hallmark kind. One my youngest son wrote in the early '90s. Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
I called my sis on Sunday...
Just checkin' in, I said. Since you emailed that Mary was in hospital. How's she doing? She's still waiting for surgery, and Jim's really worried. She has diabetes and her kidneys aren't working right, so they're working to get the bloating down before they can do the bypass. I didn't know she had... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Packers, Steelers, Math
I think it's Packers-Steelers. I need to brush up on my Roman numerals. XLV is 45. I know X = 10 and V = 5, but L? By process of elimination it must be 30. Nobody ever suggested, except in a drunk and sarcastic mood, that I might be so much as math capable. Arithmetic, the times tables, old style... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Girlfriends
My sis forwarded the following to me. The cartoon that came with it was two happy little girls hugging one another. All sunshine and sweet sentiment, no? Not exactly. “She can deal with stress and carry heavy burdens. She smiles when she feels like screaming, and she sings when she feels like... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tiger Mothers: Not always Chinese
Few days ago the Tiger Mother author made the rounds of talk shows: The View, Joy Behar, CNN, etc... This writer says she didn't allow playdates or sleepovers, no grade less than an A was acceptable, no backtalk. The children had music lessons, were constantly pressured to be the best they could be,... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
House Dreams...
Every once in a while I dream about a house. Different houses almost every time. Exploring the houses, buying them, remodeling them, acting as host and showing them to friends (dream friends whom I know and love, but in life have never met). Some are big cavernous things with lots of stairs and... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Re: Kabu's comment -- E-books are one thing
April L. Hamilton talks about in her Indie Author Guide... e-books, or POD (print on demand) like the Waltzing With Zombies book that I listed on Amazon in '09, are a major part of the independent or self-published game. I kinda got sidetracked with other things today, so haven't read any more of... Sign in to see full entry.
Indie Publishing
Writer April L. Hamilton says indie authors are the wave of the present, (we don't have to wait for the future). What with the web and other technology we no longer have to wait for one of the big boys to decide our novels are worth their time. We can find a POD or online publishing service and go... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Punksatoni Phil may not see his shadow
I know I misspelled punksatoni - apologies to the grammar cops. Found out this morning that my little town is in a fringe area on the color coded weather map. Depending on shifts in the wind and the vagaries of fate, we could be smack dab in the area marked "blizzard warning" by the Weather Channel.... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Needlework Weather...
And me all out of thread. The next two or three days are perfect weather for staying in the big comfy chair with a crochet hook and a ball of yarn, making scarves or afghans or something warm and fuzzy. I'll not repeat the forecast, thinking about it tends to harsh my mellow. But I am hoping and... Sign in to see full entry.