The Thirteen Thursday Blog Pie
1. Some would call my blog a personal one, but I say it’s all about the news: the news of life, both the inner life and the everyday slice of it.
2. Some days come with everything on it. Others are plain.
3. Speaking of pie, my son Josh’s favorite birthday cake is a blueberry pie (see post below).
4. I relive my mother’s frustration … while patching the dough where it’s spotty or torn … trying to stretch what isn’t enough … nine kids … two hands … and a sticky mix … that clings to wax paper … Finish reading A Blueberry Pie for Joshua HERE.
5. Last week while playing Scrabble with my poet friend Mara, she forfeited points because she didn’t want to play a racist word. She played ogre instead and later I played troll.
6. Recent words searches that landed people on my blog: pieces of loose leaf from one tree, loose leaf on word, loose leaf appointment, students use loose leaf, loose leaf magazine, loose leaf double wrap black journal, looseleaf natural hand made, red man leaf, Lose Leaf, and how to say looseleaf in Italian.
7. Great line seen on Facebook: When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
8. I think its stranger than science fiction that we all keep using plastic even though its known to leech a chemical that is linked with breast cancer, early puberty, childhood obesity, and neurological and behavioral changes such as autism and hyperactivity.
9. And it’s sad that so much is invested into disease treatments (because pharmaceutical drugs are such big business) and not enough into finding the cause and preventing the disease from happening in first place.
10. I must have looked strange to my neighbors today when I walked to the mailbox with a sharp knife in my hand. I was intending to go to the garden to harvest beet greens for lunch but had a change in plan.
11. As a writer, my blog gives me the opportunity to break down my body of work into digestible bite size pieces. About a week’s worth of posts will fit on one page at any given time. I think of them like I think about a 7 course meal. I like to have a variety of short and long entries highlighted with a photo or two, a quote here, a link there, and a poem for those who have room for dessert. Sometimes a post is meant as an appetizer to whet one’s palette for a future main course and often the entries (knowingly or not) are loosely related or compliment each other in some way. After preparing and serving up my own offerings, I frequently go to someone else’s site to see what they’ve been cooking up.
12. What ingredients do you think make for a good blog?
13. Soundtrack for this entry: HERE
See what else is cooking on Thursday HERE.
July 15th, 2010 9:08 am
What ingredients do you think make for a good blog?
Hmm, visual appeal, diversity, humor, legible, and uniqueness.
I love doing Thursday 13. It’s the one time each week I can veer from my writing to share something completely off the wall with an ever growing group of bloggers from all walks of life.
Great idea for a post. Happy T13!
July 15th, 2010 11:27 am
I love #5…give Mara a hug for me 🙂
July 15th, 2010 12:30 pm
Laughing over #7 — love it! Hope your son enjoyed his pie. I think you might like my post for this week. 😉
July 15th, 2010 3:28 pm
Interesting read as usual. Blog ingredient? I love photos.
July 15th, 2010 4:53 pm
I’m with your son. Blueberry pie sounds delicious. The knife thing made me laugh – you were simply multi-tasking.
July 15th, 2010 9:08 pm
Regarding #9, when I worked at the Cancer Center, pharma reps brought lunch at least 3 times a week for 50 employees. (One of the reasons that pharmaceuticals are so expensive, in addition to the salaries of those reps — anywhere from $60,000 per year to $150,000 per year.) There were always leftovers, which I brought home for my dog since I don’t eat meat. (My dog was very happy!) My son refused to eat the leftovers for two reasons: (1) the food wasn’t that great, and (the reason he stated, tongue in cheek, was that they probably put carcinogens in the food to promote business.
Regarding #10, you could always say that the knife is your letter opener!
Regarding #11, you are making me hungry!
July 15th, 2010 9:17 pm
I LOVE this Post, Collen, and the previous one, too….Life is like a Pie and so is a blog…!
You are such a WONDERFUL writer, my dear, and have the most wonderful way of putting things….I agree about the Medical Profession and The Pharma Company’s…But, as long as they are “in bed” together—this is the way it will go….!
I think what makes a wonderful blog is the blogger being true to themselves….And if they have things to say and share–whether in words or pictures–it will be truly interesting and sometimes, profound! Just my opinion.
July 15th, 2010 9:49 pm
Great idea, Yvonne. I posted this line on Facebook and someone just said: I can see it now: Redwoman goes postal! Someone else said, “very Southern Gothic.”
July 15th, 2010 10:21 pm
I really like your explanation in #11, and as always another great TT. xo
July 15th, 2010 11:23 pm
A little humor, a little grammar and many complete sentences that end with periods and begin with capital letters!
July 17th, 2010 8:40 am
I prefer strawberry pie for my birthday meal. Better’n cake!
A good blog is lively and is a mix of good writing and photos. I prefer personal blogs and not blogs that are set on using keywords, etc. to attract readers.
July 17th, 2010 9:54 pm
8. it is odd. even going for a picnic I cringed at how much I relied on plastic. reuseable baggies around cheese. plastic container for apricots. its wormed in deep. it takes a conscious practice to weed reliance on it back out.
12. regular, bite-sized life affirming pieces in good-humour like you do are nice to consume.
July 18th, 2010 1:24 pm
lol @ 10 whaooo you d have me run for my life 😉