Writing the good read
The list of blogs below? They are all folks who are participating in the Freelance Success/Wordcount Blogathon. Some of them will blog daily, like me. Some won’t. A few will drop out altogether. Don’t be judgy. You don’t know what’s going on in their lives. At any rate, take a look at them. All of…
Have a great Friday! Shabbat Shalom to fellow Members of the Tribe.
Brought to this week by Sucuri, for when you don’t want to see what your mobile device wants to show you [Voiceover]: Previously on Landguppy Productions — Our intrepid leader found herself overwhelmed for months with family traumas and the business of serious writing and thus several months have passed since she has been able…
I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours trying to undo what the Russians have done. For many people who have tried to access my website with a mobile device, they have been surprised with porn that’s impossible to unsee. Tasteless. Not erotic at all. Icky. The particular hack is pretty well known. Sucuri, a…
I turn 50 in nine days. Today, I got the card pictured below in the mail. I know other people who, on the verge of hitting the half century mark, also got their invitation to join AARP. I don’t know what database they bought to know that I am about to turn 50 — or…
Like many people who have a blog, I started off with the intention of writing regularly. Like many bloggers, life and intentions collide and I have found myself, at times, slacking off. Happily, there is the annual Freelance Success/Word Count Blogathon to get me back on track. Usually, though, I don’t go seven months without…
I’ve blogged 30 straight days. It’s harder than I ever remember. You know how people say that if a woman remembered the pain of labor and childbirth the race would die out? The Blogathon is like that. I forget every year how hard it is to write every single day. We have a tradition in…
I understand that people of some faiths have problems with issues like marriage equality and abortion. I understand that those people may have the strongest belief that their faith is the one true faith, and that people who are gay are going against God’s law, that people who have abortions are killing a human being….
I never grow enough peas or beans. Each year, I would plant a few vines of each, just enough to satisfy me as I picked them as they ripened. No peas or beans ever made it to the house. So I decided to plant more. I have three kinds of peas growing — shelling, mange-tout…
Earlier this month, I wrote about my new-found respect for Phillip Lopate, regarded as one of the best living writers of thepersonal essay. I wanted to expand my knowledge of the genre — and I had never thought of it as that before, but as the way some writers opine on a variety of subjects…