Daylight Saving Time Redux
If you’ve been following me for awhile, you’ve already noted that I’m a BIG ADVOCATE of doing away with DST. But, first, what this post needs is a photo. I’ll be right back. While wandering around … Read More
International Women’s Day, March 8
There are two positions on International Woman’s Day, which will be coming up this Sunday, March 8. And (fortunately for me) there’s an absurd aspect to why we do not celebrate it here in the U.S.A. Given my newly … Read More
Flexibility, Patience, and a Sense of Humor
As I collect the various Deleted Scenes to create a small eBook, I’m finding a few I’d like to recirculate. And rewrite! Here’s one from April, 2013, called Finding Serenity. This time around, I’m calling it: Flexibility, patience, and a sense of … Read More
Chincoteague 2015 Writers’ Retreat Redux
Four women came from different parts of the country to join me in my rental property on Chincoteague Island, Virginia last week. It quickly came to be known as the CincoChincoChics Retreat (first annual?) We were together seven … Read More
Breastfeeding Six Year Olds
Two weeks ago I posted a blog about breastfeeding. I thought I had said it all. I hadn’t. In Bringing Cultural Differences Home, I wanted to introduce my readers to some bizarre cultural differences right here … Read More
My Chincoteague Retreat
What’s the difference between a sabbatical and a respite? Merely length of time. I’m down at the Chincoteague house, the house that Woody and I renovated in 2001, and from which we were returning to … Read More
Bringing Cultural Differences Home
I write in my book (At Home on the Kazakh Steppe) that it’s those “cultural differences that make me gasp, make me shout, ‘oh no’ that are of most interest to me.” And, living in historically nomadic, predominately Muslim, … Read More
My 2015 Resolutions
This is the blog where I set out on paper (virtual paper), how I plan to pursue my life in the coming year. And not just in the field of social media. FYI: I’ll tell you flat out I’m … Read More
New Year’s Resolutions
The blogosphere of late has been filled with lists of resolutions for the new year. I don’t mind them. I actually enjoy peeking into other people’s psyches. And after reading ten or twenty of them, … Read More