In My Own Handwriting
Found on a scrap of paper this morning and in my own handwriting: “If no one is going to quote me, I’ll quote myself.” Is that a quote?
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
Archive for March, 2005
Tools of the Trade
1. “Are you digging the snow? was my preferred line all day yesterday after 5 inches of the white stuff fell on us, here in Floyd County. I used it on everyone I spoke with, online or otherwise. It started out innocently enough in a blog comment I made to Doug, after viewing his photos […]
Moving Day
My first blog was born on March 12, 2005. Five days later it took its first step. With the help of my friend, Doug Thompson, I have moved on to another server, faster and easier to use, I am told. Coincidently, on the day my blog was being set up at this new location, the […]
Question for Other Bloggers
10:00 a.m. – Are you familiar with the impatient weight in your fingers when you have a post “copy” to “paste” but have nowhere to paste it? And what did you do with your time when you couldn’t get on the blogger.com site all of last night and so far all morning to post today’s […]
Spring Fever
Since my mid-twenties I have struggled with something – for lack of a better explanation – in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome family. My current Chinese Medicine Practitioner does not approve of the term. The emphasis on “chronic” might enable a self-fulfilling prophecy, he suggests. He might refer to my problem as “a yin deficiency”…or maybe […]
The People I Want To Thank
Ed Wilhelm: I moved to Floyd County in 1985 and immediately got involved in the production of the “Museletter,” a locally published forum that includes event listings, poetry, columns, and more. Back then it was called The ERC Newsletter and was, as it remains to this day, supported mostly by Floyd’s “alter-natives.” It was Ed, […]
Do you feel like this?
The Poem: It starts out as a sensuous pleasure, the right chemistry of words and feelings at play. But then comes the daunting work of putting it all together…digging deeper for the details…editing out the unnecessary…laboring over every line break…all done with an underlying urge to get it all just right. If you can persevere […]
How’s It Working For You?
The Good News: Putting up my first blog was easy. In fact, I inadvertently created 3 of them. The Bad News: It took me 5 hours to post my picture in “About Me,” and in the end it wasn’t me who did it. (Thank you to Nelson Pidgeon, my tech support webmaster). Posting blog messages […]
