"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman

This Way to the 13 Thursday Ramble

1. Joe and I have recently been so taken with a PBS NOVA show on the Hubble telescope that we’ve watched it more than once. I love seeing what outer space looks like but I can’t wrap my brain around this: The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, because light takes billions of years to cross the observable universe. This makes Hubble a powerful “time machine” that allows astronomers to see galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago, just 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang.

2. Excavating the pockets of last year’s shorts is like doing an archeological dig into the summer of 2009. So far, I’ve found seashells, a coin, a chocolate wrapper, and a few pieces of straw from the garden.

3. My first car was a blue rambler.

4. I distinctly remember driving it home from the factory where my sister Sherry and I worked singing Layla at a stoplight at the top of our lungs.  We call this period in our lives our Laverne and Shirley Days.

5. The scoop on the Tea Party and Sarah Palin’s involvement, written Floyd blogger, my blog hoster, and head of Capitol Hill Blue news site HERE.

6. Anger:  I think of it as a message, like pain. When you feel it you have to pay attention and see what is hurting. Like pain, it will subside. Take care of it but don’t let it fester or poison others. Keep it clean.

7. Sign seen on Facebook: “synanym is a word you use for one you can’t spell.”

8. My contribution to spreading Free Hugs Day is HERE.

9. How to write a book HERE.

10. Best reader’s comment to a past Loose Leaf Notes post entitled Why Write: I write because it’s a great way for an introvert to interact with people on her own terms.  Read more reasons HERE.

11. Is “smother” the plural of too much mother?

12. I was recently interviewing a Floyd chiropractor named Garry about his new spinal decompression machine. I asked him how he came to have 2 R’s in his first name, and he answered that he had a twin brother named Barry.  His parents named him Garry with 2 G’s because they didn’t want him to feel slighted or think he was missing out on anything.

13. An unlikely butterfly:  “What resembles dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour — fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!” In other words: a thousands of years old nebula HERE.

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April 21st, 2010 colleen Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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