WFMW – WE ask questions, YOU give answers
This is where participants ASK questions about stuff they have no idea how to do. This week mine’s a blog-techie question. I will try my best to filter out the "white noise" in your answer and follow your directions to a "T". ...
Anniversary on the brain
While I’m finishing up the guidelines for Pensieve’s Poetic License, I’m ever-mindful that our official anniversary is just over a week away–our 20th anniversary! With well over 600 pictures taken on our anniversary trip, it’s no...
If you build it, will they (really) come?
Is it an oddity that I e n j o y writing poetry? Sometimes it takes the form of an absurd Ode to Laundry; other moments, I might write to express the pain of circumstance; and sometimes I’m ranting about and cursing the blogger gods–and at the...
Anniversary Trip of a Lifetime ~ Part II: Old San Juan
(Click here for Part I) Greeted by a disappointing and unexpected rain, we arrived in San Juan late afternoon. My heart sank, imagining the worst: the trip that was 20 years in the making, that we saved for, calculated, contemplated and confabulated for...
The Curse of NaBloPoMo AND When 13-year-olds Surprise You
Because our wireless connection was down this morning, I couldn’t post Part II of our trip to Old San Juan (Part I here, and after writing it, I’m ready to go back!); our edited pictures are on my laptop, and although I could SEE them, I couldn’t...
Anniversary Trip of a Lifetime ~ Part I: Hotel El Convento in Old San Juan
Before our Yellowstone adventure this summer, it had been over 15 years since Tad and I had flown anywhere together; I suppose you could consider me the estrogen equivalent of John Madden. I.am totally freaked by loathe.air.travel. We Tad had done our his...
15 Words or Less Poem – Clowning Around
Today’s photo from Laura for 15 words or less poems (YIKES!) Clowns, in general, don’t spook me; Ronald McDonald, for some reason, always has. In spite of that, I sure had fun with this poem…. The Clown Staring, glaring,Frozen grinPlastic,...
A Mostly FUN Quickie by Numbers
While my "real" post today is only half third quarter-written, here are some burning thoughts that are smoking my brain: 1) For those of you’ve who’ve participated in Fun Monday (or plan to, say, next week) I began a group for Fun Monday...
The Great Wedding Gown Mystery
When I began writing about breaking the seal on my preserved wedding dress gown yesterday, I hadn’t taken it out of the exterior box in forever (there’s a smaller sealed box within the larger outer box); there was just no reason to (other than to look...