I have this friend. Her name is Florinda and she is a book blogger. (She is also in our world famous Wordless Wednesday linkup and she's also doing this Just One Paragraph challenge - our great minds think alike.) That is a person who blogs about books - it's pretty plain and … [Read more...]
Time to Blog
There are a lot of resources for bloggers of every stripe that promise to give one inspiration for blogging ideas. Topics, tricks, what to do when you run out of things to blog about. But that's never been my problem. I have so many ideas, so many things I can write about, but … [Read more...]
The Great Period Debate
Over the last several months I have discovered that there are two things that I have always taken for granted about grammar and writing that are actually questioned by smart people. I'm talking about people like you and me, who read a lot, and even who write a lot. The first was … [Read more...]
The Music in Your Colon
In 2004 I was a story editor on a reality show called "From Flab To Fab." My colleagues and I like to describe it now as a precursor to "The Biggest Loser" because it was, like many of the shows I worked on, ahead of its time. Each episode documented a group of people who … [Read more...]
Nothing Is Ever Wrong With Me
Nothing is ever really wrong with me, except when it is. What I mean is this. Over the years I have suffered the odd mysterious malady that seems to not go away for days or weeks. When I finally seek medical attention, the condition simply disappears. That is what happened with … [Read more...]