– The following are answers to questions from a writer’s blog hop that I was invited to participate in by Polly Brown from A Year to Think it Over. What am I writing/working on now? I recently finished a feature on a woman who hiked the Camino, a 500 mile pilgrimage through Spain and […]
Finding the perfect blog theme is like finding a good mate, a needle in a haystack, a perfect pair of pants that actually fit. When it comes to my blog, I like to keep it simple, nothing too stylized, no flashing lights or soundtrack that sneak up on you, no hard to find links or […]
(Or at least get a face lift.) When my local webhost server told me he could no longer afford to host Loose Leaf and was planning to shut down his operation, I seriously thought about not blogging anymore. Being on an out-of-date Moveable Type publishing platform with a blog the size of Texas, I knew […]
My very first blog entry appeared online on March 12, 2005. In honor of that I’m posting a collection of excerpts on blogging from entries written over the past four years. ——————————————– When something exciting happens and my husband Joe hears me say, “Now that’s something to write home about!” he knows it means I’m […]
AKA: Computers aren’t the only things with hard drives that crash. My blog is the driving force behind my writing. It’s the place where everything starts, the day to day marriage between my love of the written word and my love of record keeping. If my published writing was a theatre film, my blog would […]
I took some time off from my blogging schedule to have lunch with a friend who has a new blog so that we could talk about blogging. Listening to the radio on the drive to the appointed restaurant, I caught the The Diane Rehm Show, which was all about blogging. Her guest was Scott Gant, […]
Suzi Gablik is an art critic, artist, and teacher with an interesting sidekick named Virgil. A reptilian muse with an impressive IQ, Virgil wonders if President Bush googles himself. He isn’t too shy to ask Ivana Trump about her bra buying habits or to say “doo doo” in public when necessary. Virgil is currently busy […]
Last week when I was in town hanging flyers for the April Spoken Word Night, I saw an interesting scene. Two workers were laying a new sidewalk in between the old Rake’s mansion property and the new Village Green site and leading to the Hotel Floyd construction. It looked like an elaborate production. I was […]
My writing is an extension of and a way to organize my thinking. I’m more of a thinker than a writer. For me, writing is the natural final product that results from thinking. I think! ~ Comment recently made by Colleen to Kim (a thinking blogger). I’d like to thank Blue Mountain Mama – who […]
Tell me a story of things that smell lovely … Jasmine … Patchouli … I love you truly … ~Colleen As a blogger, I don’t need to know that Janet likes Johnny Depp, Naomi has a sweet tooth for chocolate, Rick grows hot peppers in his back yard, or that Terri drives around her […]
The following essay is the one that recently aired on our local PBS station, WVTF, and it appears in its entirety here. You can listen to me reading it at the WVTF website. When I first started blogging in March of 2005 many people asked, what’s a blog? Less people ask me that same question […]
When I say “work” I only mean writing. Everything else is odd jobs. -Margaret Laurence I don’t remember who was holding the camcorder at the time, but the question posed was, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” My brother Jim had just answered. “A photographer,” he said. He was nearing […]
