“We are born in a certain time and a certain place and like vintage wines we retain the flavor of our origins.” ~ Carl Jung “Where I’m From” is inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name, from the book “Where I’m From, Where Poetry Comes From.” I first learned of it from […]
I was doing a search for “writer’s blogs” (as if I don’t have enough to do) and came across a story that caught my attention about how blogging saved novelist Ayelet Waldman’s life. Waldman, in her own words, said in her March 14th column “Living Out Loud Outline,” for Salon: The first inkling my husband […]
This one illustrates the potential of doing your own blog-thing, found at blogcruiser from The Daily Yomiur: It’s a blog called “True Stories: A Diary on My Demonlike Wife” and is written by a Japanese man who started it as a way to deal with the stress of his domineering wife. Written under a pseudonym, […]
I live in a one stoplight town. I get my honey from the woman who works the front desk at the Community Action Center and my fresh eggs from the Gralla-Shwartz family. Some of the egg shells are actually light green and the cartons have feathers and pieces of hay in them. I also grow […]
My voice has been silenced, but I can still tap my fingers – one for YES and two for NO… For 3 days now, my Outlook Express Email program has been acting hauntingly peculiar. Some of the emails I receive have been blank – empty – nothing in them. And most all the messages I […]
Last fall I got a message on my answering machine from a woman named Ellen Smith. She was thanking me for something I had written. I can’t remember if it was The Jim and Dan Stories, a political commentary, or something else. She said she was from North Carolina and left no return phone number. […]
Sometimes I wish the word “blog” didn’t sound so much like “blob” and remind me of the 1958 movie (The Blob) staring Steve McQueen where something falls from outer space and gets stuck on his arm and then grows and grows until it covers his body. It’s good for blogs to grow – more readers […]
As a foster care provider for the past 8 years, and a person who has done some basic family genealogy research, I understand the importance of good documentation, and I consider my blog to be another form of it. Some of my friends have concerns about the nature of blogging, such as: Don’t you feel […]
