Seen on the street in San Francisco:
I hope she enjoyed her trip. Apparently, her co-workers
missed her!
for the slightly snarky tone of my post here. After several blog readers gently corrected my impressions of you, I bought your June/July issue and
checked out gardenandgun.com.
You are most certainly not aimed at careless gun-toting yahoos, but
at upscale readers who appreciate the uniqueness of southern culture and have
the disposable income to purchase custom bicycles or handcrafted tables, and
visit Bermuda on vacation. I quite enjoyed the article “Pit
Stops,” listing readers’ favorite places to stop on a road trip in the south—everywhere
from cemeteries to art museums to roadhouses and produce stands. (Two places I
know and love were listed: the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art and Bok Tower Gardens .)
So please forgive me for my uppity attitude and let’s be friends.
So please forgive me for my uppity attitude and let’s be friends.
Which just goes to show something I should already know: you
can’t judge a book (or magazine) by its cover (or title). Do not make
assumptions about things or people without taking time to get to know them.
Stumbled on this magazine at the grocery store:
I had not seen it before, but I see by the cover it’s
celebrating its fifth anniversary! I don’t know who thought of it, but
apparently someone felt that gardens and guns were a nifty combination. And
many other someones must agree, or it wouldn’t still be in print.
I should have flipped through it, but I was in a hurry to
finish shopping. Next time I see it, I’m going to take a peek.
What interesting combinations have you seen lately?
Last week while I was out of town (more about that next week), Danielle at A Work in Progress tagged me with the 7 x 7 link award. So while I’m unpacking and organizing my photos and doing laundry, I’ll stop for a minute to complete this meme. Here are the instructions:
1. Tell everyone something about yourself that nobody else knows.
2. Link to a post you think fits the following
categories: Most Beautiful Piece, Most Helpful Piece, Most Popular Piece,
Most Controversial Piece, Most Surprisingly Successful Piece, Most Underrated
Piece, Most Pride-worthy Piece.
3. Pass this on to seven fellow bloggers.
1. Most of the bloggers are skipping this one, and there’s
not much that nobody else knows (that I care to reveal, anyway!), but let me
think… how about: though I don’t know if my shoulder tendonitis would permit
it, I would like to learn how to fence—en garde!
2. Posts for the following categories:
Most Beautiful Piece: Personally, I like the dreamy feel of After the Rain.
Most Helpful Piece: The Good Enough Blog Post.
Most Popular Piece: Judging by number of comments, I’d say
So Much More has been the most popular.
Most Controversial Piece: I don’t “do” controversial—but
maybe this one comes close?
Most Surprisingly Successful Piece: The reading challenge
posts last year here and here seemed to attract a lot of interest and comments.
Most Underrated Piece: Life Lessons from a Panda. Not everyone likes to take their life lessons from cartoons…
Most Pride-worthy Piece: Discovery: Ellen Glasgow.
I loved reading Barren Ground and researching Glasgow ,
and was proud of how this piece turned out.
I had fun reviewing nearly two and a half years of posts. Do you agree with my choices?
The seven bloggers I tag are:
Laure at Painted Thoughts
Elizabeth at More to Love
Kathy at Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy
Michelle at A Reader’s Footprints
Sage at The Path of Possibility
Kelly at Red and the Peanut
Elizabeth at A Nature Art Journal
Don’t worry if you don’t want to play, and if you’re not mentioned and this meme sounds fun to you, consider yourself tagged also!
Kathy at Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy
Michelle at A Reader’s Footprints
Sage at The Path of Possibility
Kelly at Red and the Peanut
Elizabeth at A Nature Art Journal
Don’t worry if you don’t want to play, and if you’re not mentioned and this meme sounds fun to you, consider yourself tagged also!
I enjoyed this post by Crazy Aunt Purl (Laurie Perry) from several years ago, and since she did tag “everyone on the planet,” here goes:
- I taught myself to eat with my left hand when I was a teenager and still find myself doing so sometimes.
- I never met a scone I didn’t like.
- I know how to give intramuscular injections to a horse.
- I no longer have a gall bladder. (Too much information?)
- I was very into acting in high school and was the president of the Thespian Club. (One of my specialties was imitating Lily Tomlin’s character, Edith Ann.)
- I learned to drive in my mom’s electric blue Camaro (much to the envy of my son, who learned to drive in a Honda Accord).
- I write poetry.
- I love flea markets and antique stores.
- I’m hopelessly un-athletic.
- But I try anyway. Sometimes. If I feel like it.
NINE places I’ve visited:
- Be kind.
- Feed me chocolate.
- Make me laugh.
- Be Hugh Jackman.
- Cook for me.
- Even better, clean for me!
- Talk to me, listen to me—connect with me.
- Did I mention chocolate?
- Read all the books on my to-be-read list. (I’d better live forever.)
- Learn another language.
- Write a book.
- Live for a few months in several different cities.
- Love my body.
- Find out where the moths in my pantry are coming from!
- Lightning.
- Losing the people I love.
- Wasting my opportunities.
- Contracting a debilitating disease.
- That the Hokey-Pokey is what it’s all about.
- Uncomfortable shoes
- Bloviators (it’s a very descriptive word!)
- Talk radio (see “Bloviators”)
- White chocolate (come on, people, it’s not even chocolate!)
- Humidity
- Be cruel to a person or to an animal.
- Try to convince me that your opinion is right and mine is wrong.
- Try to manipulate me or make me feel guilty.
- Fail to understand my absolute and uncontrollable need to browse in every used book store I see.
- Read.
- Laugh.
- Brush my teeth.
- Solitude.
- Cuddling with my dog.
- Tablets vs. Netbooks vs. “Ultrabooks”—and do I really need any more technology!
Tag—you’re it! How are we the same? How are we different? What’s on your mind right now?
