NEW FOR BEWITCHING VAGABONDA Breath of January
The last day of the first month. It sounds magickal. But, so far, I’ve never heard of anyone else having a special ritual for this day. I’ve always thought January was a special month. Not just cause it’s the first month of the new year.
It’s named for Janus, the Roman god of portals. Each year January is our portal to a fresh start. But, I feel it’s not like most Pagan holidays. Usually there is some looking back, some sorting out – decluttering. Instead I think January is a month to only look ahead. Don’t start planning your Spring cleaning. Don’t look at old photographs, old journals or anything with dust of the past on it.
January is like a fresh breeze sweeping in to clear away the cobwebs. Think of it as a door opening to a room that has been shut up for a year. Imagine that first current of fresh air flooding into the old air and pushing it aside, enlivening the whole place all at once. That is what January feels like to me.
January is a portal, use it, pull yourself ahead into the new year. No looking back at what was, what might have been or what never will be. Today, on the last day of January the portal is wide open. The future is there, staring you in the face. Fortune favours the bold, reach out and grab it. What ever you want to bring into your life this coming year is there, in the path, just ahead of you. If you’re bold, like January, you can get there. It might take you till the end of this year, but you can get there.
Every journey starts with one single, small step.
Happy January 31st.
FOUND CARMAGEDDON!*OLDIES BACK-UP* // Carmageddon
I’m downloading Carmageddon! Finally found a site where it’s abandonware, free for the downloading. A hefty download but just wait till I’m wrecking cars again. I’ve missed version one. As much as I like Crashopolypse (spelling doesn’t look right) version one had a charm of it’s own.
EROTOBLOGVeronica’s erotoblog
GHOST TOWN WEBRINGGhost Town Webring homepage
FIBER ARTS BLOGGERSFiber Arts Bloggers Webring
“You must have a weblog about your textile projects, ideas, and adventures: things like spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, lace-making, braiding and kumihimo, etc.”
I’ll look at this one again. Getting too tired now. Still have a few things to do online.
I’ll join this ring. But, I need to put something up on my site about the games I play. That should be fun.
ANGELIC CALENDAR[ A N G E L I C N E T W O R K ] V.12
This is where the beautiful calendar on my main page comes from. She is updating for 2003, I’m hoping it will be out soon. The current one goes to her old site.
KNITTING BLOGGERSNetRing: Knitting Bloggers
Just poking around when I should be getting ready for work. I don’t knit but I like to see what blogs are in a blogging ring. Lots of them here.
BUTTERMILK AND MOLASSESButtermilk & Molasses
I’ve become addicted to buttermilk. I was thinking to look up buttermilk and molasses (which just smells so great) and see what came up in a Google search. I didn’t even have to do that tonight. I just searched for buttermilk (looking for whatever came along) and here is a blog called Buttermilk and Molasses.
ODP EDITOR CODEODP ver=”1.2″ code=”shedragon E++ F+ D++++ XD N+++ G++ Q+ A+ H+ W- O+ B- T+ I”
My ODP Editor sig code. Damned if I know what loser and luzer are though.
There are some really interesting topics on the list. I’m applying for one (not on the list) but may see how it goes and take on a couple of others that really tempt me.
BLOGARAMAI’ve listed my site in Blogarama. I chose Arts/Culture as a subcategory. I wish they had a feature that let you look up other Canadian/ Australian/ etc blogs. I like having the flag next to each entry though. That helps.
GEOURLThis was in Liz’s blog. GeoURL, another way to find bloggers in your neighbourhood.
I put the link and graphic on my front page.
WHAT IS A BLOGWHORE?lizvang.com
I noticed the BlogWhore thing a week ago. I went to check it out but never really found any answer to the universal question…. “What is a blogwhore?”
*sigh* Why did I ever expect the universe to co-operate. Silly me.
Anyway, Liz is in the running to be a blogwhore. She must certainly know what a blogwhore is. Mabye, she’ll whisper the secret to me.
One thing, her blog is sucking the life out of my web connection. Only a true blog whore would have that many big files on her pages. I may lack a lot of sophistication and technical wizardry but my blog loads in a few seconds.
Is that something to be proud of? Oh well, take it where you can get it. 😉
ARE YOU DEAD?DiedOnline.com – The Internets first ever death notification system!
How would all your online friends know if you died? Although I’ve also thought about this it still seems kind of morbid and twisted in a black humour sort of way.
In my case it would be useless. Although I’m tempted to join I KNOW I would never remember to login by my due date. Everyone would think I was dead when, in fact, I was just disorganized.
WALLFLOWER GUIDEI’m a wallflower in disguise. What’s a wallflower? The word is old fashioned but lovely, I’ve always thought. A wallflower is a shy or unpopular woman who sits alone, by the wall, at social occasions and events. A flower on the wall. That’s me but you wouldn’t know it. I’ve learned all kinds of clever disguises.
I pretend you see. I pretend I’m not intimidated by everyone. I pretend I’m just as normal as everyone else. But, I know I’m pretending. Now and then I forget, or I choose to forget. But then reality creeps in and I remember that I’m really just a wallflower, quite out of her natural element.
Someday this might make a good topic for Bewitching Vagabond. Not tonight though, I’ve got to be up early for work.
WALLFLOWER TAKE A CHANCE ON METhere’s a wallflower song. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it. I like the words.
Wallflower, wallflower
Won’t you dance with me?
I’m sad and lonely too.
Wallflower, wallflower
Won’t you dance with me?
I’m fallin’ in love with you.
Just like you I’m wondrin’ what I’m doin’ here.
Just like you I’m wondrin’ what’s goin’ on.
Wallflower, wallflower
Won’t you dance with me?
The night will soon be gone.
I have seen you standing in the smoky haze
And I know that you’re gonna be mine one of these days,
Mine alone.
Wallflower, wallflower
Take a chance on me.
Please let me ride you home.
Bob Dylan
A WALLFLOWER IN DISGUISEAdded a new phrase to my Adult column. “A wallflower in disguise.” It’s so perfect. Cute even.
ARE WE THERE YET?This week in WordCraft…
Are we there yet?
Isn’t is a good thing we have kids to remind us what’s important? How often do you look ahead and think of the time when you will be there? Where is there? If you aren’t really sure it’s time you made plans and put them in writing. Where do you want to be in your writing? Is it a career or a hobby? What’s your genre of choice, what’s your style? Fiction or non-fiction? Would you be happy as a freelance writer forever or would you like to become a publisher, a magazine editor, or someone who writes best selling romance novels or technical masterpieces known to only a select few?
Are you there yet?
What is there for you? How successful, famous, wealthy or happy do you need to be to be there? Which matters most? Is fame what will be there for you? Then you need to think about making yourself famous. Consider publicity, get your name known. If it’s wealth, then learn more about contracts, collecting your money and maybe using an agent. If it’s happiness that will be there for you… you’re on your own. Everyone has a different version of what makes them happy.
How do you get there?
What a silly question… you write yourself into it!
What if you’re already there and you just don’t see it?
Make a list of your achievements. Take time to get any you may have forgotten or don’t think of as all that great. Now, think of where you were when you decided you wanted to write. Would that list seem impressive? Could you be closer to being there than you thought? If not, make plans. Decide what you need to do to get on track and stay there until you get there.
Happy writing.
THE OLD SOLDIERThis came in the newsletter from the Legion. My Dad joined the Legion but I picked it up since he’s in Florida. There was a cute snowman graphic photocopied on the front and this was on the back:
The Old Soldier
Medals such meagre payments for priceless years willingly thrown away,
Are taken from their casual resting place in bureau drawers,
And proudly polished to a sheen brass buttons once were given.
Then pinned to coats by hands less steady than when they held the gun
The faint notes of Reveille can be heard or are they just imagined –
As a final wipe is given to already gleaming shoes.
The dark blue tam is tugged to a familiar cocky angle
And the old soldiers, downing something to ward off November’s chill, fall in once more.
The ranks are even thinner this year than each had feared.
A different foe – old age – aided perhaps by too many glasses drained to numb the painful legacy of war.
Has claimed another score or more of comrades
Bringing home to those remaining the realization that this might be their last parade.
Not time for that, the pipes and drums have sounded
It’s effort enough to keep in step on a route that lengthens every year
Nor is it shortened by the knowledge that the crowd of onlookers has also thinned
And some have come to jeer, not pay respects as others did before
Some of the scoffers, too young to ever hand been touched by war.
Snicker when the bugler falters as he plays Taps
They smirk at each other as the Speaker intones “Lest we forget”
While a thousand eyes look up at them sadly
And five hundred hearts whisper, “if you only knew”.
Tom Douglas.
DMOZ GRIPING AND SWOLLEN HEADSOpen Directory Public Forum
Just came across this. Not sure if it’s really all that useful. I read some of it and decided not to register and not keep the URL even. Far too many swollen egos on both sides. At times I think there are too many persnickity nitpickers, niggling over the skimpiest details that really don’t seem to matter one dot. Sometimes they seem so small minded you wonder what keeps their head inflated that big. It’s very frustrating to try to get anything accomplished. These days I just give up and work along as it is.
Not all of them are frustrating people, some are human. But the few that are not (or at least don’t think they are) have really spoiled things. You would not believe what a great community Dmoz once was, so long ago. I miss all that. I’ve really stuck with it because I’ve put too much into it to let it go to pot now. Not that I’m putting in anything like the effort and time I did before. You can’t be that obsessed unless you feel joy along with passion.
Not that it would die off without me, I’m under no illusions in that regard. But, I like to keep my areas maintained, at least not see them become wastelands. We aren’t supposed to call them “our” areas. But, when you are the only person active in maintaining an area it does become personal. I don’t see how you can avoid that.
Anyway, my brother is here to use the other computer to check his email. He shovelled the snow while I made him soup but he’s rearing to get online now.
HAPPY LITTLE SMILEYSI like those little smiley graphics. I’ve stored plenty of them on my hard drive thinking to make a webpage of them some day. But, to what purpose? So, maybe I will delete them and give my hard drive a break.
Meanwhile there are a ton of links out there, as I have discovered tonight. I’m listing them in a new smiley Dmoz category, slowly but eventually.
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~ Scott Adams ~
SEX KITTENSex-Kitten.net ~ Home of playful, modern pin-up women
Yes, of course that’s me in the picture! 😀
Laura’s Room: Some fiesty opinons, heartfelt thoughts, & fantasies from our Canadian grrl (you know they are secretly trying to rule the world!)
Cute description too. Gracie wrote it. So what do you think of my boudoir?
I’ve also been asked to write for another website, Marquis de Libertine. I’ve decided to do it but haven’t made any breath catching plans for what I will write. Sometimes the best stuff just pops into my head when I’m sitting with the keyboard and space to write.
CAR WOE IS ME’SIdle Words
Good title for a blog.
Someone else with a car not really happy about this cold weather. I just hope mine let’s me get to work on Sunday morning. I need the hours after the Christmas slow down.
IT’S BEEN NICE.I’ve got a headache from not eating yet today. I suppose I should go down and do something about that. I’ve been enjoying the lifestyle of the idle rich today. I did get dresssed, washed, all that stuff. But I spent the early part of the morning reading in bed and the rest of the day has been right here. It’s been nice. Funny how anyone can be rich for the day, if they have the time. Sometimes I feel rich while driving along, having no where I have to be at any particular time. It doesn’t matter that my car is old and dirty from the winter roads. Even someone with great wealth would have those same winter problems. Also, if my car is old at least it’s paid for.
See ya.
NICE AND HAPPYLive in the Delirious Cool
Something like this might work for me. Instead of the text title and subtitle I could create a graphic and stick that in. The problem would be sizing it all up nice and happy.
I like her subtitle for her about section. “Who does she think she is?”. Made me laugh.
FORTY SOMETHINGforty.something
Great layout. I’m trying to fiddle with mine, getting a graphic up there in the title block. Not a clue just how to do it in regards to location of the HTML. Yes, I could make that sound more complex.
THAT SONGThey’ve just started that song, “Let me be your Hero”, on the radio station I’m listening to. That was the song of my divorce. I’ll never be able to hear that song without feeling near tears or some other emotion. So much to feel for just a few words.
Part of it all is that I doubt I’ll ever have any of that. Too old, too un-pretty, too hard to trust or believe, too unlikely that anyone will look at me that way.
Let me be your hero
Would you dance
If I asked you to dance?
Would you run
And never look back?
Would you cry
If you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul, tonight?
Would you tremble
If I touched your lips?
Would you laugh?
Oh please tell me this.
Now would you die
For the one you loved?
Hold me in your arms, tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
Would you swear
That you’ll always be mine?
Or would you lie?
would you run and hide?
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
I don’t care…
You’re here tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
Oh, I just want to hold you.
I just want to hold you.
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
Well I don’t care…
You’re here tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
I can be your hero.
I can kiss away the pain.
And I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
You can take my breath away.
I can be your hero
Listening to that song is like picking at a big scab and wondering how long it would take to bleed to death.
I AM THE WINDI am the wind beneath many wings. I’d like to sprout some wings of my own but they seem to be taking my own sweet time. But, it’s not so bad being the wind.
My ex-husband needed wind. We met as penpals when we were both 14. I saw his ad for a penpal in a penpal zine. He wrote about being a science fiction lover, that’s really all I remember. He was looking for friends, nothing romantic. So I wrote cause I didn’t want romance either.
It wasn’t till much later, after years of keeping the letter writing communication going, that I found out he was agoraphobic. It was something that grew in him over time. He went to school, finished high school, applied to college. But that’s where it stopped. You’d have to talk to him for the specifics. But, to me, it seemed a lack of confidence, to make it simple. Of course, nothing like that is ever so simple.
Anyway, when we met face to face we were in our early 30’s. I stayed just a day, didn’t even see him in the morning as I left back for my home in Canada. It was a very long drive (down to southern Illinois) for such a short visit. But, that was the start in our next phase. He began to change, I helped. Maybe my ignorance of agoraphobia helped too. To me it seemed he just needed to get over thinking everyone was looking at him or even cared who he was or what he looked like. So, he started making trips out and about. Eventually, he made the big trip up to Canada to visit me.
After that I was the trippy one. I went back and forth from Canada to the US many times. All of it as an illegal alien. When I did get stopped at the border that put us into the next phase. But between then he had already gone through a big metamorphosis. He was working full time, driving a car, getting out a lot more and being his own person, not so afraid of the world, the people walking around on it.
I’ve been other people’s wind too. Right now I’m mentoring a columnist at BackWash. She doesn’t really need me but if nothing else I’m helping her find her feet around how things work. There are others here and there who I give a little wind, an encouraging word or a bit of cheer when it helps. Over all the years of my life I can look back and see I was a lot of people’s wind beneath their wings. Most of it small stuff, but the odd case where I really did help someone accomplish more than they thought they could or would.
It’s great helping people. But, in the end it’s lonely. That’s the problem with being the wind. Once someone has their wings they tend to fly away. Not that I want them to come back really. I like watching them soar.
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This is what I have just written for my next update at BackWash. Not sure how Todd will like it when he reads it. He has never liked having himself revealed. Me on the other hand…. I feel like I’m writing to a flock of strangers.
GK: The Goddess of Vintage BeautySomewhere she has started her own blog. Can I find it before I have to leave for work in about 15 minutes?
THE BLOGGIESFairvue Central >> Features >> Third Annual Weblog Awards
Anyone nominate me? 😀
Well, maybe 2006. By that time I might have learned enough code to sharpen up this site. I’d like to put a graphic up there to get rid of that annoying chunk of white space. Maybe on Thursday when I’m not working….
See ya! Off to work and spending time with Zack after work.
The ring is dead. But I still see it on a lot of pages. I guess that shows how often people check these things.I’ve just started a couple of rings on RingSurf, mostly out of curiousity to see how they will do. Also that ever driving need to push myself to be some mythical super woman, something even I’m not sure I want to be.
But, such is life. Who really is what they want to be?
PROGRAMMER GRRLSProgrammer Girls
What a shame it’s a dead ring. It was a good idea. I’d guess no one found it in time to join. Last update was in 2000, at RingSurf.
This is like my own form of online urban exploration, ghost towns and such.
WHO KNOWS, WHO WILL EVER KNOW?Laura’s Thought for the Day: For People who Don’t Have Enough of their Own…
I just thought it was a cute title.
Do you ever wonder about people who were never born? Maybe it’s because my Mom lost a baby (a miscarriage during moving to another house) but I do seem to think about unborn people every now and then.
What might they have invented, written… how would their lives have affected the world at large? Maybe they wouldn’t have made as much as a tiny scratch in the paint. Who knows, who will ever know?
BLOGCHALKING UNDER CONSTRUCTION?BlogChalking seems to be back today, finally. I was wondering how long I’d wait before I removed it. Bugged me having that dead graphic on my site.
But the site itself is still a dud. The graphic is coming from here but that site isn’t in English, what little there is of it. I don’t read Spanish? but it seems to be a place holder and nothing else.
UNDERSTATED WIT IS SO ELEGANT.JM Spoofe – About Me
Best About Me page I’ve read in ages.
“Life’s more enjoyable if you pretend that you have an audience.” Spoofe.
I’ve done that too. Why else would anyone, from the midst of the masses of the unfamous, put up a blog?
“So, that’s about it. I hate writing conclusions to things like this, so I’m simply going to stop writing. If you were expecting some sort of witty zinger to follow this all up, then I apologize.”
Don’t know who Jeff will become but it would be interesting to follow the journey. Understated wit is so elegant.
REAL WOMENI wrote this, a rough draft, for another website. But, now that I sent it to her I’ve changed my mind. It still feels scattered and too angry for what I want. Not focused either. So, I’m sticking it here, likely the only place I will end up using it, as is. I can always break it up as individual, more focused essays.
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Real Women
What is your body for? Some people might think it’s a mode of transportation for their brain. Some people might think it’s something to be used to lure men to their doom, like the legendary sirens. Some might talk about procreation, having babies, continuing the species, all that sort of stuff. Some others might think it’s just a advertising in motion.
Whatever it’s for, do you know much about how it works? How do breasts make milk for babies? Why does your vagina leak even when you aren’t having an orgasm? Why do women have hair in odd places where only men should have hair? These and other questions can be answered if you care to find out. Most young women don’t know about milk ducts, or how the vagina cleans itself by leaking mucus. They don’t know what makes a woman’s breasts start having milk. Why are they so ignorant?
I think it’s because we are so focused on making women’s bodies into sex toys that we have forgotten there is a real purpose for women being different from men. It’s not just a way to turn them on. No, Virginia, there really is a vagina, not just a pussy.
Women have babies, that’s the whole point of that period thing women get monthly. Women feed babies, that’s why we have those pair of lumps stuck to the front of us. Women give birth to babies that’s why our hips tend to be wider than men’s. No, it’s not all there to sell cars, sorry, you have been sadly misinformed.
The saddest thing of all is that so many women are getting breast implants. A breast implant turns what starts out as a natural thing into nothing but a sex toy. Once implanted with those plastic bags of goop a breast can no longer function for breast feeding a baby. Is that such a small price to pay for having the biggest hooters. Is that all there is? Is that all you want to be?
Real women have breasts, not tits. Real women have a vagina, not a love tunnel. Real women are women, not sex toys or a great marketing campaign. They might not be size 2 with a D cup bra but I can tell you one thing, real women live for themselves, they don’t wait around for some man to approve.
BE A ZINE QUEENBackwash – Content – Grrl Gets the Goods
Bonnie Burton: How to be a Zine Queen
To be accepted into the ring your code has to be on the same page as your blog. That’s pretty much why I didn’t join. Plus, I don’t talk much about my sex life here, it would be a let down for all the HNG’s (trolls).
PAGAN WEBCRAFTERS ASSOCIATIONThe Pagan WebCrafters’ Association :: Editorials
I like the WebCrafters Rede. Lots of articles to read too. Including one about signature files being a bad idea for mailing lists. I can’t imagine what point he will bring up in support of that. Being an ASCII artist, I love email signatures and only restrict them to 7 lines just to be polite for those oddballs who get all bent out of shape over them.
the experience wisely. – Auguste Rodin
WEEKLY EZINE FOR WRITERSInscriptions, the e-zine for professional writers
Inscriptions by Bev. We’re birthday twins. 🙂
CARMAGEDDON GAME GRRLAbandonGames.com – The Number One Search Engine For All Your Favorite Abandonware Games
I’m still looking for Carmageddon. InterPlay has written it off, so why haven’t more of the abandonware sites picked it up? Underdog just sends you to Sci Games to order it. But, there are none to be ordered.
Doesn’t someone have a nice CD with Carmageddon for me? Ideally #1 and #3 but #3 would be just ducky all on it’s own. EA Games said (if they had one in) it would be selling for $6.00. Still irks me that WalMart had one but it was going for over $50.00. Maybe I’ll go back down there and see if they’ve put it on sale now that Christmas is over. I thought about getting a price quote from EA Games and taking it to WalMart as a real test of their price match policy. With my luck, they will be all out of Carmageddon anyway. Why is one old game so hard to find? Why didn’t I just buy it a year ago when I was in the US and EA Games had plenty of them in stock.
Woe is me, the game grrl who waited too long for the sale. *sigh*
BLOG CHALKING DEAD?What’s going on with BlogChalking? The graphic to their site has been broken for several days. It’s not fair, I don’t like having a broken graphic on my site.
Can’t access their website, it’s just coming up 404 every time.
REVAMPING WITH THE BROWNIESThatGrrl
Trying to revamp my page. So far the webrings are the worst problem. I’ve taken them out for now. It’s 3:20 AM, time to let it settle and see if those good hearted brownies come in and secretly work their magic to fix all those little mystery glitches.
*sigh* The odd thing is that sometimes that is just what happens.
MERELY MADBackwash – Content – Consistently Inconsistent Gossamer Girl
A new column at BackWash, my first mentee has posted.
I’m so cold tonight I’m blowing my breath over my fingers and making Darth Vader noises.
Good night, good night, good night. Won’t my bed be surprised to see me this early!
WHERE THE WILD THINGS AREBackwash – BW Newsletter – Archive
For better or for worse, I’v started a new newsletter at BackWash. This one is geared to Pagans. Four subscribers before I even put out the first one.
While dreams leave their visions behind
For each of us nurtures the longings we have
In our heart and our soul and our mind.We draw inspiration from scenes we admire
Find peace in historical homes
And then in our minds shape a castle of dreams
Whose blueprints are ballads and poems.
The structures we find so lovingly built
By skilled hands now folded in rest
Are vistas we treasure that always inspire
Whose image remains ever blessed.
Where beauty and function, happily wed,
Have weathered the passage of time
The builders impart their message to us
Still current but also sublime.
Alan W.C. Tustin
— From my new 2003 calendar of Old Ontario.
You’d never guess I was just updating Bait & Switch would you? Another good blog. This is geared to women who want to explore pornography withough feeling shy about it. Kind of my idea behind my own writing at Adult BackWash.
An erotic blog, it’s not for everyone. Some good links. Check the stick figures.
DMOZ BLOGSOpen Directory – Computers: Internet: On the Web: Weblogs
Add your blog to the pile. It seems I’m the only active editor in Weblogs these days. But, I’m slowly catching up on the submissions. My ultimate goal is to have 5,000 blogs listed (including resources, tools, etc.) I figure I’ll get there by the end of 2003.
Anyone interested in becoming an editor is welcome to apply. I have no say in who gets accepted.
FEELING ALMOST FAMOUSBig Pink Cookie – Taking the Blah out of the Blog
People are actually reading my blog. I feel almost famous and at the same time I wonder what I’ve posted that I’ll regret later. Oh well, I’ll just focus on being famous.
Wouldn’t you like to be a diva too?
BLOGITTY BLOGmovabletype.org
I emailed to Ben at Movable Type and it seems the killjoy in my blog loading is BlogRolling. So, it will have to wander off onto another part of my site or disappear altogether. You would think Blogrolling would have worked out any kinks with MT blogs by now.
Anyway, the site redesign is going slowly. I want to create magick but I’m not sure how to pull it off, technology wise. Well, more like personal brain power wise. I have most of the technology, I think.
One more MT related thing… I got the book today!! There I am on page #230. As if it would move around. 😀 I’m going to read the book and find out what else I can do with my bloggitty blog.
MAKE OVER MADNESSHerCorner.com | When writing feels like a sixth sense.
Does HerCorner need a facelift? Have I just been looking at it too many times, too long?
One more thing to think about. Katherine at HerPlanet is the site designer. She does a beautiful job. Have a look at HerSupport and the HerPlanet site itself. She has done others but I can’t think of which ones offhand.
HOW RUDE OF MT!Has anyone ever found a fix for the MT bug that causes it to chop off your blog? I have reloaded several times and mine is not fully loading. How rude!
I’d like to do some of these things with my blog too. For one, the smiley faces. But she also does quotations, just as I do.
QUOTEMemory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. – Oscar Wilde
WRITING FOR WORDCRAFTI’ve just gotten an idea to use for WordCraft, the writing newsletter at BackWash. I was downstairs, getting some cereal and looking at the breakfast dishes my Mom left when my brother came to take her to the airport this morning. I was thinking how we imbue (there’s a 20$ word for you) inanimate objects with feelings, thoughts and ideas. I mean, it was just a coffee cup, but it made me feel a twinge of sadness. Funny how that cup is still exactly where she left it, as if waiting for her to finish her coffee. Meanwhile, she is now on the plane, flying back down to Florida, right now.
Anyway, that’s how the idea started. It got me thinking that we do the same thing when we write. After all, words are just flat letters on a flat page or computer screen. Whatever life they have, whatever feelings are life and feelings that we give them. Not just in fiction writing where you have to make readers care or have an interest in reading about your characters. But, in non-fiction too where you appeal to readers curiousity, make them read on, to hear what you have to say. Make them want to read about and consider your ideas.
So, writing is in fact like being Dr. Frankenstein – giving life to inanimate objects. Though the writing isn’t a dead thing being brought back to life it does compare as the same words and letters have been used over and over for so many generations of writers. Words can be a dead thing if no one gives them that spark of life.
Anyway, there is the general idea. Now I just need to spark it up (organize it too) for WordCraft.
BLOG ROLLINGI’m starting with Blogrolling today. I’ve seen it around awhile but didn’t really look at it. Maybe it will be useful. But, I’m not sure if everyone has to be registered as a user to look at my links. That would be a nuisance as the whole idea of links (for me) is to just stick them up there for anyone and everyone.
Anyway, we’ll see how it looks momentarily.
ASCII FAIRYI added a new ASCII picture to my ASCII art pages. It’s a little fairy. Not sure how well (clear) it turned out. But it feels good to have made something new, especially since I haven’t done a fairy before now.
WEBSITE BATTLESI really need something new and more together looking for my index page of the site. I like my beige/ cream colours but the layout is really nothing. This week is a slow work week at Zellers. Tomorrow my Mom leaves, going back to Florida. Today Grace left, back to Vancouver. So, I should have more time to myself. I hope I can get my page fixed up. I’m not even sure what I want, I guess that doesn’t help. It would be really neat if I could put together all my ideas somehow. (The ASCII art text page along with the freehand drawings and nice colours). Maybe I’ll figure it all out. You never know what you might create if you let yourself.
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