New in Google Reader this weekWe’re Doomed, via Aprilbaby’s California Life (same blogger, Michele Miles Gardiner) – and here’s an example of the kinds of amusing-to-outrageous stories/links/signs of the apocalypse she’s posting. (This is a lengthy read, but if you have daughters, you may want to take the time for it.)Books on the Brain (found me via Booking Through Thursday) If you’re as hooked on Google Reader (or Bloglines, or whatever place you like to […]
If you come to directly to this blog rather than get the posts through your feed reader, you’ve probably seen the Work It, Mom! button in the sidebar. It’s been there for awhile. I’ve been a member of this terrific community for moms – full-time-job moms, part-time-job moms, freelance/entrepreneur moms, work-from-home moms – since last May, and that was just a few weeks after the site officially opened for business. WIM just celebrated its first […]
Vocabulary – Booking Through Thursday 4-17-08 Suggested by Nithin: I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue reading and forget about the word? Don’t forget to leave a link to your […]
Best FriendsMartha MoodyRiverhead Trade, 2002 (ISBN 1573229350 / 9781573229357)Fiction, 496 pages First sentence: Really, all I wanted in a college was unrest and demonstrations. (See the first sentence on page 123 here.) Book description: When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she’s never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare—and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to […]
Before things get underway, I just wanted to mention that it’s Blog Reader Appreciation Day. Thanks so much for reading and participating here, whether it’s every day or just every now and then. I am truly glad you found this place and hope you visit often!———————————————————————-Laurie Ruettimann called attention to a recent Wall Street Journal/CareerJournal.com article that reported on a study finding that women with advanced degrees were more likely to get divorced then men […]
I really am trying not to post more than once a day, but this is actually relevant to April 15 (sort of). Entertainment Weekly did a special Tax Day feature on their 15 favorite accountants from movies and TV. Now, mine is not a glamour profession, and I’m impressed they actually could find enough accountant/bookkeeper featured characters to make up such a list. Here’s who they came up with, in no apparent order – click […]
Before we get started, a PSA for you married folks: this coming Saturday, April 19, is Husband Appreciation Day! And while we’re appreciating spouses, mark your calendar – wives get equal time on September 20. —————————————————–I think a sense of humor is an essential survival tool for modern life; as St. Jimmy of Key West once said, “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” Therefore, I love this week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, […]
The Weekend Assignment is posted each Friday at Outpost Mâvarin; a roundup of responses goes up the following Thursday, so if you’d like to join in, you’ve still got some time. Karen says: Don’t worry if you don’t get your entry in by the end of the weekend. It’s called the Weekend Assignment because John Scalzi originally designed it to give folks something to write on weekends, but times have changed since then. Now the […]
New in Google Reader this week:The Chronicles of Tewkesbury, via A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm!Mother, Daughter, Sister, Friend…Me (Bubba’s Sis), via Ten on TuesdayThe More, The Messier (Suburban Correspondent), via comments she’s left on various other blogs I readThe Writing Mother, (indirectly) via Work It, Mom!There’s not much that unifies things this week; the links are fairly random.I talked about the dangers (and irritations) of unverified forwarded e-mails a while ago, but this says […]
The City Walk Personality Test (not to be confused with a Citywalk personality test): What Your City Walk Means You are optimistic and hopeful. Sometimes you do get disappointed by expecting too much. You tend to be organized, logical, and methodical. You’re so efficient, people often wonder how you get so much done. The City Walk Personality Test Well, I always knew I was a nut, but this makes it official: You Are a Brazil […]
Fun link of the week:PAK Dictionary of Names, via Bubba’s Sis – just enter your first name and gender, hit “lookup,” and get a “definition” of your name. If you have an unusual first name like mine, you may draw a blank, though, so give it a try with your middle name instead. Here’s what I got with that (I have underlined the parts that I think are the most on-target for me): Your name…gives […]
Tall Paul and I met online, through eHarmony, and they have an established getting-to-know-you process that involves four communication “stages.” Your initial exposure to each other is a view of the “About Me” profile page, which contains a selection of short-answer questions, and the site encourages you to fill it in as completely as possible. A couple of the questions on that page concerned books – an estimate of how many you read per year, […]
