Writing the good read
My son turns 17 today. He’s a typical teenager: sleeps a lot, eats a lot, answers complex questions with a grunt, and complains that the world is “not fair!” I love him to death. I don’t always like his behavior (that’s my shrink talking; can you tell?). He’s mildly autistic, has ADD and a mild…
Today in my Health123.com blog, I write about ways to put more veggies and fruits in your diet, particularly now that so many beautiful fresh specimens are available. Here’s a tease. Click below if you’d like to see more. …There are many previous blog posts right here on this very site that can show you study…
I said a couple days ago I was toying with linking to some other great blogs that were not participating in the blogathon, but which were great reads. There’s not a lot that I go to regularly, so I thought for a Sunday night’s reading, why not? First up is my guy’s blog, One Piece…
I’m a sucker for dystopian stories of future Earth. When I heard that Tom Perrotta’s book The Leftovers was being made into a TV series on HBO, I thought I should get the book and read it already. It had been on my list since it was published in 2011. There have been other similar…
The remaining blogs I’m singling out as special don’t have a lot in common. Some of them have a kind of hippie-chick vibe that appeals to me — a grow your own food/do it cheaper kind of thing. But others are just good reads, great information, or plain old fun. Margarette Burnette runs the Coupons…
I thought this, the second part of my blogathon link-love post, would be about food AND gardening. Nope. Not going to work. I have to break it up. My gardening blog love is tied up with some hippie chick homesteading/crafting/living on the cheap blog love. So food today, the rest tomorrow. Now go get a…
There are more than a hundred blogs participating in this year’s Freelance Success/WordCount Blogathon (for a full list, see this post). Every year I participate (this is my fourth), I make it a point to visit each participating blog at least once. Some of them sign up and don’t do much. Some are not to…
Seattle is in the middle of construction hell these days. Along with the usual summer pothole fixes and repaving, there are highway projects to make way for light rail, existing light rail projects that seem never ending, a planned tunnel to replace the seafront viaduct that has been put into stasis by a giant drill…
Just about every Monday, I have a blog posted at Health123.com. I love the work I do for this local health and wellness start-up, and I believe in the company. It not only works with companies to help their employees manage their health, but it offers great tools to help individuals keep track of how…
The man pictured above isn’t my actual dad. I call him dad, but he’s really the father of my high school best friend Andrea. Sometimes now that I’m grown up I call him John, or Dad M (for his last name, Mortenson). But when, as a teen, I lived in Santa Cruz and my dad…