Happy Monday, folks! I’ve put away the crowbar for another week — there’s nothing like getting a couple growing boys out of bed on a Monday morning to give those biceps a good workout with garden tools. No one was smiling this morning. Well, except me. See, Monday morning now means a quiet house where [...]
Archive for March, 2009
put on a happy face
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged Gretchen Rubin, happy face, Mondays, The Happiness Project, Zebra Sounds on March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
spring is all a-Twitter
Posted in seasons, Writing, tagged Addictionary, Bambi, IMDb.com, twitterpated, Urban Dictionary on March 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
My new friend Karen introduced me to a new word: * twitterpated *. We were discussing flutterbys vs. butterflies and somehow twitterpated was suddenly in context for the conversation. I don’t know how I went through four decades and never heard of this charming word. Urban Dictionary has 17 definitions for twitterpated; my favorite is [...]
bubble boy
Posted in something important, I'm sure, tagged bubble bath on March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I think he is clean now.
is wordling a word?
Posted in Writing, tagged J.A. Konrath, Jonathan Feinberg, Wordle, Zebra Sounds on March 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I like the wonderful blog Zebra Sounds where I always find fun, inspiring, and thought-provoking word bites. This author pulls together information from diverse sources and she weaves it in an entertaining and enlightening way. I particularly enjoyed her post about Wordle and how it is being used to make a statement in politics, advertising [...]
migrations
Posted in Photography, seasons, tagged hummingbirds, migration, snowbirds on March 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
For those of you in the United States and Canada, I found this site to track the hummingbird migration for 2009. I do not have an official map from the AARP, but I think the retirees heading north from Florida should be following roughly the same migratory patterns. We have found that if you feed [...]
psst, I’ll be hiding
Posted in good reads, Motherhood, Writing, tagged Christina Katz, mail, Writer Mama on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s March Mail Madness, folks. Yep, another package. This one was not a surprise, but it is still fun to get the plump, promising-looking envelope out of the box. This time, I found the prize from the day I was the lucky winner of the book Writer Mama: How to Raise A Writing Career Alongside [...]
the pre-wash cycle
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, Motherhood, tagged dog, pre-wash cycle on March 19, 2009 | 17 Comments »
There is an ongoing debate in my household about the “best” way to load the dishwasher. I just put the dishes in. Apparently that is not exactly right. Apparently it is very important to stack them using a very complex logarithm that maximizes the mean number of individual dishes that can be wedged into every [...]
scaredy-pants
Posted in good reads, Writing, tagged A Newbie's Guide to Publishing, Afraid, blog tour, J.A. Konrath, Jack Kilborn, Katherine Battersby, scaredy-pants, The Well Read Rabbit on March 18, 2009 | 11 Comments »
How did I ever get mixed up with a guy like Jack Kilbourn? It started out innocently enough… One of the very first comments I ever received on my blog was from a lovely children’s book illustrator and writer. Katherine Battersby had stumbled upon my blog in its first few weak-kneed days and was kind [...]
an amazing day
Posted in Writing, tagged blog, Jane Friedman, There Are No Rules, Writer's Digest, Writing on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In December, I attended a Writer’s Digest Editor’s Intensive event. I found it extremely helpful and informative. Jane Friedman, the Publisher and Editorial Director of Writer’s Digest, did an extraordinary thing for me today: she quoted a letter I wrote about that experience, and included a link to jane, candid in her blog There Are [...]
the ultimate what?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged The Ultimate Mom on March 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Later yesterday, when I was ready, I did the trip back out to the mailbox and retrieved the package. I carefully slit open the tape, peeled back the brown box, and there it was. The anthology The Ultimate Mom. I went straight for the table of contents: whew, I spelled my name right on the [...]
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