March 2008

Connected Lives (Part One)

March 31, 2008

My generation is comprised of folks who remember life without much technology. Sometimes we joke around about it. My girlfriends and I laugh about how our parents used to make us get off the telephone in the evening and on weekends. We spent all day together at school, but still found things to talk about at […]

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Friday’s Feast #185

March 27, 2008

Friday’s Feast #183 Appetizer What does the color dark green make you think of? The beautiful green hills of Northern California. Topics: Friday’s Feast

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Friday Fill-Ins: Volume 4

March 21, 2008

1. The return of spring is so exciting! 2. Strawberry fields forever, of course. 3. Bailey’s sounds like it would taste delicious! Topics: Friday Fill-Ins

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Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part Five)

March 17, 2008

Recently, another blogger wrote about the intersection between his real and online lives, in particular his recent connection via Facebook with a coworker. He declared that now his “writing life and [ ] real life are the same thing.” That writer “works with lawyers.” He explained that, “beyond that, I don’t name the firm, the […]

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Carnival of Family Life: St. Patrick’s Day Edition

March 17, 2008

Top o’ the mornin’ to you! Welcome to the very special St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! The luck o’ the Irish is certainly with us because there are a wide variety of excellent articles amassed here for your reading pleasure! No blarney — just fact! Enjoy! Marjorie presents Change published […]

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Friday Fill-Ins: Volume 3

March 14, 2008

1. Contact may cause severe allergic reaction. 2. The parties hereto do mutually agree to dismiss any and all claims each has against the other with no admission by any party of liability. 3. Disney parks are not nearly as much fun for the employees as they are for the guests. 4. Sleep sounds really […]

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Friday’s Feast #183

March 13, 2008

Friday’s Feast #183 Appetizer On a scale of 1–10 (with 10 as highest), how much do you like your own handwriting? 7. I don’t write much any more, so it isn’t as neat as it used to be. But I have a forgery-proof signature. Took me years to perfect it, too! Soup Do you prefer baths […]

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Wordless Wednesday

March 11, 2008

Topics: Wordless Wednesday

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Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part Four)

March 10, 2008

Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part Four) Pseudonym: A fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity. Lots of authors have written under pen names, the most well-known being Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel Clemens. C.S. Lewis wrote poetry as “Clive Hamilton,” and the early […]

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Photo Hunt: Different

March 8, 2008

The manner in which Memorial Day is observed at Cherokee Memorial Park here in Lodi is different and unique. I know of no other cemetery that makes such an effort to honor those who have served the United States. Each of the large flags and the flagpole bearing it has been donated by the family […]

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Friday’s Feast #182

March 6, 2008

Friday’s Feast #182 Appetizer If you could be any current celebrity for one whole week, who would you want to be? Sarah Jessica Parker. I’d like to know what it feels like to be that petite and able to run in heels that high. On “Sex and the City,” she was constantly running around New York […]

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Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part Three)

March 3, 2008

Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part Three) It wasn’t that long ago that blogging was a concept embraced only by the ultra-techy. How quickly the world changed. These days, maintaining a personal blog is commonplace. In fact, many bloggers have multiple sites. A great percentage are authored under pseudonyms. For good […]

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Photo Hunt: Party

March 1, 2008

Mattie-Boo’s 16th birthday party. My kids always want to have their parties at our favorite Mexican restaurant … and never want their picture taken. Topics: Photo Hunt

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