Weekly Geeks re-launches this week – a new topic is posted TODAY! I’m part of the team that is continuing this event that Dewey started in the spring of 2008. Weekly Geeks is on its own blog now – please go on over to get this week’s theme and see how to play along. While you’re there, grab one of the new buttons, and please take a few minutes to check out the “In Memory of Dewey” page, which has links to every Dewey tribute post we could find (plus one written just for the WG blog by you-know-who). If you’ve been part of the Geek Community before, come and join us again, and newcomers are more than welcome too!
Via the Los Angeles Moms Blog – new contributors:
L.A. Story (Laura)
Yvonne in LA (Yvonne)
Mother May I (Tracey)
Beth Kephart Books
Booking Mama
Online Publicist, the new blog of book-bloggers’ friend Lisa Roe
Rimarama, a fellow short person found via her post selected for Blog Nosh Magazine
Click for Clutter, where you can help someone else clean out her closets (easier than dealing with your own!)
Being a better person – that is, remembering that you are a person and attending to that – can make you a better parent. It’s a challenge when you live with gremlins, though. Also: recognizing the mommy gangs; parents need breakfast too (note to my husband: your kids think so too!), and a dispatch from a visitor to Weekday World
Apparently, social media has not yet killed off the holiday letter; a take on the bloggers’ bane, the misfired pitch e-mail
File this one under: sometimes the best man for the job really is a woman
If Jesus were around today, might he be in jail?
Get ready for 12:34:56 on 07/08/09
Genius of the week, via Not Always Right:
New on the reading-challenges front this week: Pick one book that you will NOT read this year! Ali at Worducopia has proposed the Just Say No Challenge.
I found this quiz at Jessi’s blog, and I thought the results were pretty much on-target for me (despite my dismal 2008 reading numbers). See how you do…
| What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Dedicated Reader
You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm |
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| Literate Good Citizen |
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| Book Snob |
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| Fad Reader |
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| Non-Reader |
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| What Kind of Reader Are You? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
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Intriguing books I spotted this week:
Where Did I Leave My Glasses? The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss, by Martha Weinman Lear (DearReader.com Nonfiction Book Club selection)
My Life With the Saints, by James Martin, SJ
All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates, by Elizabeth Fournier
Have a great weekend!
I am so thrilled that Weekly Geeks is back and I can’t wait to get blogging! But first I need to check out a few more blogs and I also have an annoying headache, and I think I need to lie down for half an hour or so without looking into a screen. But thanks for bringing it back. It is SO GREAT!!!
I’m not even finished with checking out the links from last week’s Saturday Review, and here you go posting new ones. 🙂 🙂 Thanks for keeping my couch potato status intact for a little longer this afternoon. 🙂
Aww, lady, thanks for the link love! I appreciate it — and hope that people take a few minutes to explore a site before sending them a query.
You’ve added some great new blogs to your reader. 🙂
I thought the Jesus in jail post was interesting…but then Jesus was arrested and killed for a charge that would never fly in today’s society.
Have a great weekend!
Louise (Bogsider) – There’s a team of us working on Weekly Geeks now. Some will be coming up with the themes, and others will be working more behind the scenes, but all of us are glad we can keep it going. Enjoy!
B&B's Mommy – There will be new ones most Saturdays, so be prepared :-)! Some weeks there are fewer new blogs and more links, and other weeks it shifts, but as long as I still have fun putting it together, it will be around.
Susan – You’re welcome! As I commented on your post, this is a BIG complaint among mom bloggers too. Thanks for speaking out!
Amy – Finding new blogs to add is part of the fun, isn’t it? But I’ve also done some cleanup on my Reader and unsubscribed from some blogs (mostly dormant ones) in return for the additions – but I will never tell which ones I’ve dropped :-).
As for the “Jesus is jail” post, I pretty much had the same thought you did, but I thought it was an interesting viewpoint.
Thanks for linking to my minor insanity. 🙂
I like the link to the young guy buying ‘stuff’ for his lady. 🙂 Reminds me of the first time I had to do that. Now I don’t care.
Have a great weekend.
Mike – No problem. I would link to your major insanity too :-).
And I’ve never asked a guy to do that shopping for me. There are some things I really would prefer to do myself. But it was a pretty good story :-).
Thanks for the L.A. Story shout-out, Florinda! Can’t wait to check out Weekly Geeks. 🙂
Laura (L.A. Story) – You’re welcome, and (again) welcome to the LA Moms Blog too!
I’m a Dedicated Reader too (what else could I be?). Thanks for mentioning my anti-challenge. So far I’m rock solid on that one! Now if only it were so easy to keep up with all my others, LOL.
Ali – I would have been surprised to have gotten another answer myself :-). And I love your anti-challenge! I think most of us can handle that one :-).
Hey, Florinda! Thanks so much for the link love! And also for directing your readers to Beth Kephart’s amazing blog…they’ll be glad they visited, I’m sure.
Have a great weekend and talk soon…
XO
Anna
Anna – Beth Kephart is pretty well-known among my book-blogging cohorts; I’m just late to the party finding her :-).
And I’m sure this won’t be the last time you give me something worth linking!
As always, a great set of links! I love the idea of the Most Sequential Day. 🙂
I am a dedicated reader also, although it looks like Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm came in might close as a second.
Wendy (Literary Feline) – I think that's just how Mike's mind works :-). I really enjoy his blog, and he's probably my most regular commenter next to you!
I think it's probably better – or at least healthier – for "obsessive-compulsive bookworm" to come in second and not first, don't you ;->?
Dear Florinda:
Can you forgive me for this late comment…? I am, it is true, a rather weak-kneed blogger—never knowing what I should know when I should know it, never even understanding fully how this extraordinary blogging community works. I know, though, when I feel blessed, and I am grateful to you for noticing my site. Yours is rather wow itself.
Beth K – I followed the lead of several of my blogging buddies to your site, and I think I was a bit late getting there, but am glad to have found it. Thanks for stopping by!