Have a Fabulous Holiday Full of Food and Love…

…and football, if you’re into such things!
I’m going to be off-line until next Tuesday at the earliest… Even more than a premature jonesing for my daily internet fix, which I have survived many times, this is the first time in my life that I feel like I am actually going to miss my internet community. [...]

New Feature: Top 5 lists

I love to play the game “Top Five…” which is of course inspired by the novel “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby (upon which was based the 2000 movie of the same name starring John Cusack).  I want to play it here on a once-a-week basis, and hopefully some of my readers will be inspired to [...]

First Anniversary

As I reflect on passing the one year blogging mark, I am humbled and grateful for the experience.
A year ago my husband’s best friend was visiting us from Wales. He showed me the blog he had just started ( Movie Waffle  – A more witty and intelligent film review site could never be found!) and the [...]

Submission

The first time I submitted a piece of writing for consideration in a publication, I was 13.  I sent a poem to a local lit mag, very tiny thing it was, and I won some prize or other for my age group.  I was hooked.
Since then, I have periodically sent off my poems and essays [...]

Internet Community, or Just a New Way to Play With Yourself?

What does it mean when the people you interact with most on Facebook are the people you live with?
I like that I am connected to people in my past. And by past, I mean just the last couple of years. We recently moved across the continent, and all those folks I got to [...]