A few of my favorite #photoaday posts from the second half of August–you can see all of them here, if you’d like to. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
I’m doing the #photoaday meme again this month, and since we’re halfway through August, I’m posting a few of my favorites here. My daily updates for the meme are on Instagram and shared to Twitter and Facebook, should you be interested in seeing them as they happen rather than in blog roundups. Fountains at The Americana at Brand, Glendale, California Spare change in the cupholder of my car In my mother-in-law’s patio garden A sneak […]
The Campaign official movie site (Facebook page) Comedy, 2012 (rated R) Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Katherine La Nesa, Sarah Baker Written by: Chris Henchy, Shawn Harwell Directed by: Jay Roach Synopsis, via RottenTomatoes.com:When long-term congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major public gaffe before an upcoming election, a pair of ultra-wealthy CEOs plot to put up a rival candidate and gain influence over their North Carolina district. Their man: […]
Before I wrote, I drew pictures. It runs in the family. My ability and my style both came from my mother, and my sister and I both loved flipping through her old sketchbooks when we were kids. Most of those books have been lost during the years (and moves) since then, but my sister does have thirteen pages of Mom’s drawings, and she recently scanned them so we’d have copies to keep. I thought I’d […]
You may have noticed I wasn’t around here much last week. Or maybe you didn’t. Lots of folks were doing the “bloggers IRL” thing at BlogHer’12 in New York City, which usually means that blogging is the last thing they have time for. We’re deep in the “dog days” of summer, and those vacation days are dwindling; most schools here will be back in session in another two or three weeks, depending on the district. […]
It’s a mostly lazy Sunday around here, and that includes staying out of the kitchen! We went out for breakfast and will be going out again for dinner–my stepkids are about to start two weeks’ vacation with their mom, so we asked them to pick a special place to eat tonight. Right now, they’re playing on the Wii with their dad and I’m in my reading chair in the corner, although I haven’t done much […]
My posting in the #DailyBookPic meme has dropped off a bit in the latter half of July, since I’m not participating if I don’t have something appropriate to the prompt. However, I did make it into the roundup on Book Riot on one of the days when I joined in last week! I haven’t missed a day of #photoadayjuly, though, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll do […]
This month, I jumped on the photo-meme bandwagon–not once, but twice. My husband has been participating in #photoaday on Instagram for a few months, and I thought I’d join him in July. (If you’re on Instagram and want to follow, we’re both using our Twitter handles there: I’m florinda3rs and he’s RamsesTMagnum–the only only place where he’s Tall Paul is around here!) I’m sharing my #photoadayjuly pictures on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but wanted to […]
There’s a rather surprising number of book bloggers in Southern California for a region that’s only occasionally known for being particularly bookish, but (no) thanks to the traffic and sprawl, we don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like. But an out-of-town visitor is always a great excuse to get together. Thanks to the fact that Rhapsody Jill was visiting for the weekend, I got to meet up with her, Amy, Softdrink […]
I’ve lived in Southern California ten years as of this week, and that seems like an appropriate time for some reflection on a place I wouldn’t have expected to find myself before this decade started. Sometimes I still wonder at the fact that I’m here at all, but I’ve rarely questioned my decision to come here. There are so many ways in which my life here is better than I had any reason to expect […]
I’ve lived in Southern California ten years as of this week, which is as long as I’ve lived anywhere in my entire life, and it’s one of the last places I’d ever have imagined I’d end up. Granted, I still might not end up here, literally; I hope I’ve still got a few good decades left, and I certainly I hope I’ll be spending them with the native Southern Californian I married almost six years […]
After 20 years of once-a-year togetherness, the Rock Bottom Remainders have called it a career, and played their last two shows this past weekend. The finale was a private performance for attendees at the American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim on Saturday night, but they played for a full house at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles the night before. You might know the Remainders better through their literary efforts than their musical […]
