Writing the good read
Mean Lady has needed some help with Mean Baby while Mr. Mean Lady is out of town on business for a few weeks. It’s been a gas for me since I’m stuck in the middle of parenting a teenage mutant on the verge of getting a driver’s license. It also helps that she’s a girl,…
Before I write this blog I want to make something very clear: I’m a white middle-aged woman who has never had to come out of a closet about anything of my own, have never felt my life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness threatened by some physiological or psychological trait. I’ve never had to hide something…
Here are a few more good reads I’ve discovered through the blogathon experience. Popcorn Homestead by Joan Lambert Bailey takes you on a brief trip through her life in metropolitan Tokyo. It’s a unique opportunity to see what living in Japan is like, read about it in real time, and not have to read Japanese!…
Do you like words? Books? Esoteric discussions about words and books? The Happy Bibliophile takes a writer a week and uses that person to explore the world of writing and words. I love the idea. And happily, I love most of the writers! Another great book blog is Some Can Whistle. I particularly like that…
I need to come back to the issue of fair. I struggle almost daily with the fact that I can’t see “fair” in the world, that there isn’t an evident balancing out of good and evil. I want to see the people who do wrong brought to justice and those who do right rewarded. But…
There are maybe 150 bloggers writing daily in the merry month of May as part of the third annual WordCount Blogathon. A few days ago, I mentioned a few of the gems I’d found. I’m more than halfway through the alphabet and have another batch I’ll keep visiting or subscribe to after this month is…
As many of you know, this is my second year participating in the annual WordCount Blogathon, wherein I will blog every day for the month of may, in the hopes that it will become an ingrained habit and not just something I think about doing in the wee hours of the night (when I am…
I saw the movie Babies today. It’s a lovely film that looks at the first year or so of life of four babies, one born in Mongolia, one in Namibia, one in Japan, and one in San Francisco. That movie taught me a few things. Some may seem obvious, particularly to someone who has been…
My childhood friend Pam wrote me a note recently that she couldn’t directly help with a project because she was still woozy from a great bowl of Pho. It was August. Granted, Seattle in August isn’t hot, at least not often. But soup in August? I don’t get it. Unless it’s gazpacho. We have a…
Second to soup, stew is one of the pleasures of chilly evenings in fall and winter. Making one is simple. Together with a salad and a nice loaf of bread, it can be a great dinner to serve for guests, or (since it freezes well) something you can pull out of the freezer in the…