The Blogger Sisters
I can still recall when over 10 years ago a close friend looked me straight in the eye and announced, “I love my Mac.” I turned up my nose and looked at her like she had two heads.
Sometime after that, my sister, Kathy, told me that I would love using a computer, once I got used to it. I didn’t agree with her at the time, but I took her more seriously than my friend who loved her Mac because Kathy, like me, is technologically challenged and an unlikely candidate to take to the computer, but she had.
Times have surely changed. My husband recently purchased me a Dell lap top and had it sent to my mother’s house, where I’ll be staying for the next couple of weeks. I wake up each morning and put my USB memory stick around my neck. It hangs from a cord like a key or a whistle, and I feel like a coach ready to get into the game…once I can find an internet connection, which my mother doesn’t have.
This past week, I attended a cook-out pool party, played scrabble, visited family members, discovered a new beer, walked a trail with my nephews and the beach every evening that it hasn’t been raining. I have also blogged…at the library, my niece’s house, my brother Joey’s house, and all three of my sister’s houses.
My sister Kathy’s blog, “A Particularly Persistent Point of View” made its debut a couple of months before “Loose Leaf” did. It covers a mix of political and metaphysical topics, and is set up via a dialogue with her inner critic, which in this incarnation is a tiger. I don’t think I ever could have guessed so many years ago when she was first discovering the world wide web of the internet that we would both end up being so “online,” blogging side-by side (see photo).
Special Happy Birthday Wishes to my son, Josh, on his 26th birthday. Sorry no blueberry pie this year. See you when I get home.
July 10th, 2005 11:23 am
Happy birthday to your son, Colleen. How great it is that happies like this can be shared in this way. May it always be so.
Michele sent me…this time.
July 10th, 2005 11:46 am
Happy Birthday, Josh! Nice to read your sis’s words too; an interesting theory about the source of the London bombings. Time will tell; though I hope whomever is responsible will be found and dealt with quickly.
July 10th, 2005 2:00 pm
Happy Birthday to Josh! I’m still trying to talk my sister into blogging. She’s such a gifted writer (I posted a couple of her poems at my place a while back) and I hope she’ll jump in soon (she’s a Mac girl, too).
July 10th, 2005 3:37 pm
Happy Birthday Josh!
Laptop, I think I see one of those in my near future.
July 10th, 2005 5:54 pm
and i can recall when there was a Mac sitting at the foot of our bed for over a year in 1989 and we never even turned it on. you sure have come a long way babe. i’m so proud of how well you operate the virtual techs to share your wonderful writing to ever widening circles.
you probably will be doing some caoching/mentoring soon to other writers wanting to get into the game.
have you discovered what your laptop screen saver says yet?
i’ll give you a hint. i’m finding mine is really helping me through these intensifying days. xoxo
July 10th, 2005 8:06 pm
Chanced my way here — happy birthday to Josh!
I’m still getting used to the world of electronic submissions and e-zines after decades of snail mail submissions and contributors’ copies that begin as paper….
Lived in Massachusetts for 20 years before moving to Florida; have seen a bit of Hull.
July 10th, 2005 11:55 pm
i recently got my two sisters to start blogging…it is the first thing that we have done together…in a long time…we all live so far away from each other…but blogging has made me feel more connected to them lately….ahhhh sisters and blogging hehe
July 11th, 2005 8:39 am
Sounds like you’re having fun up in the urban north country. The humidity seems to be coming back to SW Va. but I hear the Boston area has been pretty warm as well. I’m curious (my ex-Apple background) as to whether you became a Mac user, and if so how the change to the Dell is going.
July 11th, 2005 1:10 pm
After blogging side by side with my older sister on day..I visited my younger sister next, and we blogged together in two rooms across the hall from eachother…talking to each other as we did. She doesn’t have a blog but likes reading them. I don’t have a Mac, but my sister Kathy does. I don’t even know what I have at home, but my dell lap top is working out fine…except for the fact that I’m using a USB memory stick (works like a floppy but stores like a CD) and the library I’m in has no port for it! They have one port out of 5 or 6 computers but no hardware to use it. I guess I won’t be posting till much later in the day. Good to hear from you all! Haven’t noticed my screen saver message yet, Joey K. Are you talking about the cartoon on the front that says “The bluebird of no more anxiety” or something like that?
July 11th, 2005 1:59 pm
What a beautiful photograph of the Blogger Sisters, Colly! =) The photographer has MUCH talent…hehe
July 11th, 2005 2:14 pm
Hey sis,
It was fun to see a picture of us blogging side by side at your site – matched with your vivid words, it’s another great entry for you. Someday, when I’m not so technologically challenged I’ll learn to put pictures up on mine. And YES, I LOVE my MAC.
When are you coming over again?
Happy birthday Josh.
love, Kathy
July 12th, 2005 9:57 am
It’s hard to forsee what things will impact and become keepers and what will fall away. Lovely to hear you’re spending time at your folks’.
July 13th, 2005 12:34 pm
Very nice post
I have to agree with my sister Molly – a photographer in our midst!
When will you be back to blog at my place? I miss seeing you daily (or close to it) Even if you are just using me for my computer! (LOL)
😉
Love ya Col