All current participants in the Book Blogger Buddy System (#BBBSys) have now been e-mailed their match details! If you know you signed up and haven’t received an e-mail by Wednesday, October 31, please check your bulk-e-mail and spam folders, and then follow up with me with a tweet to @florinda_3rs or an e-mail at 3.rsblog AT Gmail DOT com. This round of sign-ups closed on October 12, but barring disaster, we’ll open up #BBBSys again in […]
I don’t do giveaways here very often, but when Harper Perennial invited me to host one for this very special event, I couldn’t say no! You’ve read the book…now see it come to life on movie screens nationwide! For one day only, on Thursday, November 15th, select movie theaters nationwide will show the award-winning film version of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, in a special TCM Event Series screening in honor of […]
You probably already figured this out, but I’m having a “not much time to write” week, so the photoblogs are running hot and heavy right now! Tall Paul and I visited the monthly Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena last Sunday, and we mostly came back with pictures. The flea market can be some inexpensive entertainment… …especially if you find bad decor entertaining… …and pop-culture artifacts… A Klingon, a starship commander, and a Ferengi walk […]
…and other things seen during an hour of walking in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life this past weekend. This turned out to be a good opportunity for my sister and me to help a good cause and spend some one-on-one time. We’re half-considering doing more walks like this for both of those reasons. Posted with Blogsy Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications […]
One of the things that was inspired by my weekend conference retreat with Creative Alliance’12 was my already-developing interest in taking and playing with pictures. I participated in more free-form discussions than technically-oriented sessions during the weekend, but I got the most immediately-useful takeaways from a talk about Pinterest and Instagram, which was supplemented with an excellent list of photo-editing apps (thanks to Yuliya @ SheSuggests and Ciaran of Momfluential). I made the top two […]
Cross-posted from The Estella Society, which is generously hosting this project One common thread in I saw posts wrapping up Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2012 was “reconnection.” There were no awards or big sponsored giveaways this year, and no one really seemed to miss them! On the other hand, many of us did seem to enjoy a renewed sense of our community–getting reacquainted with one another and adding new-found book blogs that we want to […]
UPDATED INFO AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2012 If you changed your feed-reader subscription to The 3 R’s Blog to Feedcat per my post last week, it will no longer work after today, because it really wasn’t working anyway. If you didn’t resubscribe then, please do it now! Based on good reports from other users, I’ve joined the exodus to Feedblitz. Sorry to have to ask you to do this crazy thing one more time, but […]
This year’s edition of Book Blogger Appreciation Week–without awards, and focused on the community spirit of book blogging–seemed to be a big success! I didn’t follow the daily topics all that closely, but two of them provided me with ways into tying up a couple of posts I’ve been working on for a little while: responses to recent discussions of authenticity and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.3rsblog.com/2012/09/on-book-blogging-really-positively-enthusiastic.html”>positivity in book reviewing. But for me, the biggest and best […]
It’s September. Summer is winding down–if you live your life by the academic calendar, you may consider it over already. (And if you live your life in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re looking ahead to spring instead of autumn! But anyway…) In any case, the calendar is filling up with fun events for book bloggers! It feels like it’s snuck up on us this year, but the original book-blog community-fest–Book Blogger Appreciation Week–is back, and it […]
These photos were taken driving south on the Pacific Coast Highway from Point Mugu, north of Malibu, to Santa Monica on the Sunday morning of Labor Day weekend. They were edited using iPhoto, but primarily for cropping, composition, and brightness adjustments–I haven’t enhanced the colors. The PCH cuts between the rocks here at Point Mugu. You may have seen this spot in many car commercials… Surf is way up near Point Mugu Down in Santa […]
There are so many things I like about blogging, but one that I don’t talk about all that often is the technical side. Maintaining a blog for almost 5.5 years has been a great opportunity to learn on the job. I’m pretty much self-taught and far from an expert, but I maintain this blog on my own…and usually, I know enough to keep me out of trouble. Not always, though. I’m most likely to get […]
I’ve been getting much more into photo-blogging this summer, and in the process, I’ve become more comfortable with photo-editing techniques and technology. Participating in the #photoaday meme has certainly encouraged me to play around with pictures, and every now and then, I like to share how I create a particular post. All of my editing is done on mobile devices; in order to replicate my techniques precisely, you’ll need the Apple iPhoto app for iOS, […]
