We adopted Winchester a year ago this month! As a variation on Wordless Wednesday each week this November, I’ll be posting a photo of him captioned with my suspicions of what he’s thinking. Winchester gets bored when Paul and I stop to chat with neighbors while we’re out with him, especially if the neighbors don’t have a dog of their own. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and […]
“Please stop calling me ‘ma’am’” I begged her. “I’m only five years older than you are!” “Sorry, I can’t help it,” she said. “It’s how I was raised.” “It’s how I was raised” explains a lot of Southern habits. This was Memphis, Tennessee, and so it was almost certainly true that she was raised to do it. She meant well by saying it and had been raised to say it with respect. But I hadn’t been […]
Nonfiction November is officially underway! Kim kicks it off at Sophisticated Dorkiness with this week’s topic of conversation: Your Year in Nonfiction: Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year? What nonfiction book have you recommended the most? What is one topic or type of nonfiction you haven’t read enough of yet? What are you hoping to get out […]
Welcome back to Standard Time, and I hope you were able to enjoy that extra hour of sleep that mysteriously visited you last night! Did you do anything special for Halloween? Some of us dressed up at work on Friday. And on Saturday, many more people were dressed up at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo in downtown Los Angeles. Paul and I have gone to this event for the last few years, and it’s really growing– it occupied […]
Welcome to Song Lyric Saturday, a new feature for my NaBloPoMo month of March–and it may make occasional appearances even after that’s over, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m not a big fan of short stories in traditional form, but when they’re set to great melodies and last for under four minutes, sometimes they really work for me. I’m developing a new routine during my drive home on Friday afternoons: listening to the latest edition […]
My first post on The 3 R’s Blog was on March 16, 2007. The second post went up on March 18–five years ago today. (And then I didn’t post a third time until April.) A few days ago, I reflected on some of the developments I’ve seen on the way to this milestone. On my blogiversary itself, I shared a snapshot of my very first post. But celebrations are best suited for weekends…welcome to my fifth […]
Welcome to Song Lyric Saturday, a new feature for my NaBloPoMo month of March–and it may make occasional appearances even after that’s over, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m not a big fan of short stories in traditional form, but when they’re set to great melodies and last for under four minutes, sometimes they really work for me. In addition to one of my favorite book blogs (hi, Gayle!), I associate “Everyday I Write the […]
I can’t actually re-create my very first blog post. The original URL no longer exists, since I switched to a custom domain in 2008. I’ve changed templates a couple of times during the last five years, and Blogger doesn’t even seem to have my original “Minima” template available any more. However, using my stripped-down “test blog,” I’ve come up with a decent facsimile of what went up in this space five years ago today. Clearly, […]
This is published post #1668, dated March 15, 2012. Post #1 was published on March 16, 2007. That averages out to .91 posts per day over five years. Five years of blogging! Who saw THAT coming? Five years ago, it certainly wasn’t me. And sometimes I still feel like a newbie who’s playing catch-up, and will always be a few steps behind no matter what; the online world changes so fast. On the other hand, […]
…and a linkish placeholder post today. Blame NaBloPoMo for my not taking the day off entirely, since I was sick yesterday. i’m feeling a little better and will be back at work today, but I haven’t felt up to much in the way of thinking and writing for the last few days. But I need to get up to speed soon, because I’ve got a five-year Blogiversary party to plan! The actual Big Day is […]
Prompt for Friday, March 9, 2012: Would you rather lose your blog or lose your photographs? More either-or, but this one’s a pretty easy call for me: I’d handle losing the photos much better than losing the blog. That brings up another question: do you back up your blog regularly? I need to set some sort of schedule for that, because I’m quite sure that I’m overdue. I’ll do that tonight. I’m just days from […]
Prompt for Wednesday, March 7, 2012:Would you rather have more blog readers or more blog comments? The theme for NaBloPoMo this month is “Whether,” and most of the writing prompts so far have posed either-or questions. Such questions are not among my favorite things–I’ve always preferred multiple-choice to true-or-false (or the equivalent). Some people take a more black-and-white perspective on life, but I’m more into the shades of gray. Having said that, I’m taking today’s […]
