No one has tagged me for this :-(, but Literary Feline issued an open invitation – as she frequently does – when she did the “7 Random Facts About Me” meme, and I’m picking up the ball. Hey. it’s all about the randomness around here, although as it turns out, there’s a thread connecting the facts I’m sharing here. I was born on Easter Sunday. I was born on my mother’s 34th birthday. I got […]
Most of us are in winter-holiday mode right now, but what if you’re really a Fourth-of-July person? Here’s yet another “personality” quiz, this one via Thoughts from…Jennifer: You Are Easter You are an optimistic, hopeful, and genuinely sweet person.Sensitive and affectionate, you are easily touched.You love nature, animals, and anything cute or cuddly.For you, every day is a new chance – no matter what happened yesterday. What makes you celebrate: Almost anything. You love most […]
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! And today, we get a Wiki-Resume: Born in Ecuador, Cecilia Alvear, a pioneering Latina in television news and the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, is a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California. She was the network’s Mexico City Bureau Chief from 1982 until 1984 when she was transferred to […]
An e-mail I got yesterday morning reminded me of something I should have had on my Ten on Tuesday list this week. Consider this a bonus item: E-mail warnings about crime, disease, new laws, you-name-it that get sent out to everyone in the Contacts list without being checked out first! Extra irritation points if the sender adds “Don’t know if this is true, but better to be safe…” I have a couple of family members […]
In all the hype and the shopping, let alone Santa and the elves, sometimes the origin the Christmas celebration can slip one’s mind. My friend Ann, who is in her final year at the General Theological Seminary in New York City (yes, I’m a near-heathen these days, and one of my good friends will be a minister in a few months – go figure), sent a link to a blog that can help remind us […]
Funny thing – not too long ago, I was complaining about complaining. But there’s something appealing about making a list of “favorite things” to complain about – I guess we all have our pet peeves, don’t we? When someone answers a “How are you?” greeting with “Can’t complain,” I sometimes think they just haven’t thought enough about it. If you’ve ever seen those bumper stickers that say “If you’re not angry, then you’re just not […]
One of my original blogging inspirations was my son. He’s been doing it a good deal longer than I have, although by no means as regularly, and he blogs in a niche that I’m not particularly interested in. In fact, his sports blog is the only one in that niche that I read, and although I think – objectively, I swear! – that he writes it very well, I wouldn’t read it if it wasn’t […]
