This week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Things You’re Really Good At,” is the kind of topic I find difficult to address. While I was thinking about it earlier in the week, Meg Fowler posed some related musings on Twitter: megfowler: here’s a question: which is more your style, self-promotion or self-deprecation? and why? megfowler: do you think self-promotion = arrogance? and self-deprecation = humility/down to earth? megfowler: i find the bias that people attach […]
Month: May 2008
Weekend Assignment #215: At the Movies
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 […]
Sunday Bulletin
Due to the Blogswarm post taking precedence this Mother’s Day, I’m not doing a big Scraptacular this week. I do have some announcements and Reader links to share, though. Announcements: ***If you usually read my posts via e-mail or feeder, thank you for subscribing! But then, chances are you don’t visit the blog itself all that much unless you comment, so you may not have seen the new addition to the sidebar that shows my […]
On Mothers’ Day: The lost mothers
This post, one of my occasional forays into the political, is prompted by a Mothers’ Day blogswarm in protest of maternal deaths – a protest in protest of an anti-abortion protest (got all that?) held in Knoxville, TN on May 10. The Knoxville event was planned as a “funeral procession to mourn aborted fetuses.” In response, the ArchCrone and ShortWoman launched their own blog initiative to mourn and honor mothers who have lost their own […]
Ten on Tuesday encore, with special guests!
This is a special follow-up to this week’s Ten on Tuesday post, with – the Talls! My husband Tall Paul occasionally likes to give his own answers to the memes I do here, and he lets me post them; this time, my stepdaughter Tall Girl wanted to play too. It’s two guest posts for the price of – well, nothing. Nothing more than tolerating my editorial comments, anyway. Ladies first, so here are Tall Girl’s […]
Friday Follies: 123, it’s FFI and BTT
Manual Labor May 8, 2008 Writing guides, grammar books, punctuation how-tos . . . do you read them? Not read them? How many writing books, grammar books, dictionaries–if any–do you have in your library? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves! I’d really never thought about this question before, probably […]
One more bookish thing….
One thing makes books even better – getting them for free! Enter the “Mother’s Day Book Bash” at A Book Blogger’s Diary by this Sunday, May 11 ( Mothers’ Day in the USA), and you just might win a book! You’re also promised some linkage. Here’s how it works (full rules may be found at the link in item #1): 1) Blog this giveaway (link to this post please and preferably with a Book Bash […]
Weekly Geeks #2 – book review linkage!
* This week in Weekly Geeks – Weaving a book-review web. Quoting from Dewey: The theme for Week 2 is something borrowed (yes, she said it was ok!) from Darla at Books and Other Thoughts. She says in her sidebar that if she reviews a book that you’ve reviewed, you can email her and she’ll link to it in her review. I love this idea for three reasons. 1. As a blog reader, I like […]
Book talk: “But Enough About Me”
My choice for Book of the Year (Nonfiction), 2008 But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town Girl Went From Shag Carpet to the Red Carpet (or A Jersey Girl’s Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous) Jancee Dunn Harper Collins, 2007 (paperback) (ISBN 0060843659 / 9780060843656) Memoir, 288 pages First Sentence: Approach with caution. Book Description: New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of […]
The policy of truth; or, this is for posterity, so please, be honest
A “Hump Day Hmmm” via Julie Pippert This Hump Day Hmm…talk about truth, honesty and lying—yourself, your kids, from a personal or parenting point of view, how you deal with it and how important it is, as well as loopholes or any other aspect you want to cover. “If you did it, just don’t lie about it. If you didn’t do it and you were supposed to, don’t lie about that either. You’ll still be […]
Ten on Tuesday: New travels, plus random nosiness
This week’s Ten on Tuesday theme, “10 Places You’d Love to Travel To (That You Haven’t Gone to Yet),” presents a bit of a challenge for me. It’s not that I don’t want to travel more, but some of the places I’d most like to visit are places that I’d be returning to, so I can’t include cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston on this list. When I thought about it, I ended […]
My contribution to HR blogging
Today is my fifth anniversary at my current job – and a Monday morning – and in recognition of that, I will post this. It comes via e-mail from My Sister Teresa, and I think it’s been around for awhile, but I suspect that many of us have known a manager or two like this (hopefully, we haven’t been managers like this): Rules For Managers 1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait […]
