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

13 Thursday Face Off

1. Best find on Facebook this week: street art made with plastic bags inflated by hot air rising from subway steam grates HERE.

2. My Asheville Potter Son Josh’s recent Facebook comment read: Studio Stroll. So I sent him THIS link.

3. Cropping pictures in Adobe photo shop is a lot like hemming pants.

4. Searches that landed people on my blog last week: Asheville loose leaf pick up 2010, the eternal sadness from the great beyond, map of Tasmania slang photos, junkyard postcards, think pink virus computer, reason to smile at work, what’s another word for “wet cement,” how to find loose leaf on word, blue sky boys pumpkin headed baby, how to red man loose leaf?

5. Thanksgiving feast tidbit to remember from wastefood.com: every year, through uneaten food, we waste 70 times the amount of oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico during the three months of the Deepwater Horizon spill. More HERE.

6. Read Gary Boyd’s Coffee Muses’ account of his visit to Floyd HERE.

7. Variety is the spice of life: On the plane to Boston (where I’m going to be helping to take care of my mom who is getting out of rehab after suffering a stroke), I was surrounded by women my age. One had spiked hair and wore miniature high heel shoe earrings, one in a pink raincoat was doing business over the phone, and another was reading a magazine article on hormone replacement therapy.

8. I was reading Irish columnist’s Nuala O’Faolain’s memoir on midlife, Almost There, which was described by The Irish Times as “unputdownable.”

9. Nuala’s first memoir Are You Somebody? was instrumental in giving me the courage to write my book The Jim and Dan Stories.  Her voice was personal, her style was unorthodox, and her story of growing up one of nine with an alcoholic parent hit home.

10. Strangest item found in the Sky Mall catalog: a remote control tarantula.

11. Another good Facebook Find:  The Day There Was No News HERE.

12. From the realistic original … to the impressionistic print … My face is a canvas of life un-still … becoming abstract with age ~ From Self-Portrait  by Colleen

13. The Mirror ~ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understand ourselves. ~Carl Jung

November 17th, 2010 colleen Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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