Category Archives: Miscellany
Reverb11: What Made Me laugh This Year?
Prompt: What made you laugh this year? Many things made me laugh, and normally I would find this question too broad for an effective answer. Yet this year one thing stands out. My youngest niece. She was born in June of this year. My tenth niece overall, but my younger sister’s first child. It may …
Dabbling in Reverb11
Last year, several of my blogging friends took part in “Reverb”: a year end reflection on different subjects related to the previous year and its impact upon a person via daily blog posts during December. Each day had a specific prompt about which the blogger would write. It made for some enlightening reading. I don’t want …
My 2011 MVPs.
On this Thanksgiving it is of course appropriate I show some gratitude in my blog post. In this case, I am proud to present my list of social media MVPs! A bit of explanation is in order to begin with. This list was difficult to compile. I started thinking about it in early October. It …
Of Sweatshirts, Paint, and the Familiar
The other day I was goofing off. I got home, took off my sweatshirt and swung it around like a lasso, before tossing it onto the couch. (I think many of you have done this at some point.) Only when I picked up the sweatshirt later, I realized that my little mindless stunt had torn …
Brief Thoughts on an Introvert Halloween.
I am a little disappointed this Halloween. I had no Halloween party to go to. You know me. I am not a huge party person, and indeed I would have only gone to any for Halloween had it been of a certain size and attended by certain types of people. Yet no such event took place, and …
