On day 24, I’m forgoing the funny for a drizzle of sap. I’d like to thank Nicky and Mike @ We Work for Cheese for hosting the 30-day blogging challenge. I jumped in on day 17 and this morning, on day 24, I had a blogging epiphany. Blogging is nothing like writing and all about… Continue reading
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If a blog post falls in my head, does it make a sound?
The silence in my head speaks louder than the brain gremlins feeding on muse droppings and thought decay. All those lovely ideas scribbled on Post-it-Notes and envelopes, screaming to be saved. They telepathically collect rejection slips, while waiting in the dark chamber of neglect in the lobby of paper limbo. I’m still working out the… Continue reading
Have You Seen This Avatar?
The Google Friend Connect widget, once populated with faces on my sidebar, now appears empty and clueless, a border of its former self. On March 1st, Google discontinued Google Friend Connect on all non Blogger sites. Since that day “that will live on in infamy,” I’ve tried to find a Google Friend Connect plugin or… Continue reading
A Left Brain Plot to Kill a Right Brain Post
Fear hangs out with the letters on my keyboard among the dust clusters and granola bar crumbs. Actually, fear appears as a red herring, a fishy character that presumably kills off my blog post. But I know the real perpetrator, Perfectionism. The Perfectionist evil doer hijacks my brain, duct tapes my arms to the chair,… Continue reading
The Irrational Fear of Blogging
I woke up today and remembered that I had a blog. I’m slightly amnesic after a Google search algorithm sideswiped me while I was surfing Craigslist. I also might be HTML intolerant. Lately, the word “blog” sounds more like “blahg” when it rolls off my tongue, as if a rotten pistachio nut left a bad… Continue reading
WTF? I Received the Eternal Sunshine Award of the Spotted Mind.
I thought it fitting to post this on Friday, the day of Ivy’s great meme, WTF Friday, which you can find at her site Unscripted Life. In Ivy’s words: Every Friday, I bring you a true story that will leave you asking (as we say in the Unscripted family) “WTF mate?!?” Ivy has poured her… Continue reading