I realized this week that I haven’t had the energy or inspiration for “art” in several months. My blog-babble friend, NRKII, is taking a break from her writer’s blog, and it made me take another look at my output and motivations. While I still have the desire to write, I have completely lost the ability […]
Month: October 2007
Free Rice
This is a cool website. Improve your English vocabulary — and do something good for people who have need. Free Rice. It works a little like the old word association tests in school. They give you one word, then you choose the closest equivalent from four others. If you get it right three times in […]
Take Note
I am going to start a new category on my blog. Sometimes, as I am reading “stuff” I see things that I don’t really want to blog about, but I think you would find interesting. Here, you will discover quotes, articles or other things that generally fall into one of the categories I often write […]
NaNoWriMo?
Like a challenge? How about adventure, romance, thrills and chills? Aspire to be/do/say something a bit more than the average? November is National Novel Writing Month. I think I will give this a try. I managed to write a chapter in the BabbleStory today… 978 words in one hour. How hard can 50,000 words be? […]
Blossom Night
This is the lovely watercolor I picked up today at the Apple Affair. If you like it, the artist is Amanda Waggoner. She has many more watercolors… First the whole shebang… And a detail of the moon and pink blossoms on bare branches. I just love this!
An Apple Affair
I love this day. I look forward to it every year, and every year it seems to get better and better. Here are some shots of the grange before people started to come in… you can see Jeannine at the till checking the change. Apples, apples and a few autumn squash… And the long row […]
A couple very nice days
Have I mentioned I love working with my mother? Here she is, doing what she loves: She is an amazing teacher, and I am so grateful that not only I have the chance to see her in action, but my boys also. Here they are yesterday (Friday, October 19) in her classroom, helping with a […]
More Environmental stuff
Check out a few more links I found or rediscovered since posting yesterday’s blog piece… Planet in Peril from CNN, a series on how climate change and other ecological concerns are affecting the world. Care2.com is a social networking site with many places you can explore for ideas on ecologically sound living. Email groups, networking […]
Blog Action Day: The Environment…
So many things a person could write about, I spent all weekend thinking and working on this post. Here is my meagre contribution to this month’s Blog Action Day. Of course, we all know by now that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was given out to people who have been working on Environmental Issues (Global […]
My Inner Role Player…
I am a Neutral Good Elf Cleric! Take this silly and fun D&D character quiz.