A support group? A union? A class or convention? There was talk of track backs, permalinks, and spam. Mostly, we enjoyed meeting each other, some for the first time. We were old bloggers, new bloggers, wanna-be bloggers, and blog readers. The lap tops were lit up and the stats were compared. I learned that bloggers [...]
My blog is a year old. It was born on March 12, 2005 at Blogger.com. Five days later, with the encouragement of friends and fellow Floyd bloggers, it took its first steps and made its way to Moveable Type. Below are excerpts from some of Loose Leaf’s first words: March 12: How’s It Working For [...]
The hardest part of Guerilla Blogging is finding your cursor when the daylight casts a glare on your computer screen. You’ll need to learn how to balance your lap top while riding a bike, turn your laptop carrying case into a makeshift mouse pad, and be ready to pick up and move at a moment’s [...]
The following are my answers to interview questions posed by Jake from the Jake Silver Show: 1. When do you first recall wanting to be a writer and what inspired that? I began writing Bob Dylan-inspired poetry as a teenager in my bedroom and then “letters to the editor” for local newspapers. As a young [...]
“She spends more time with people she doesn’t even know than she does with those she knows,” my husband said to friends we were having dinner with when the subject ‘what have you been doing lately?’ and then blogging came up. “Not more time,” I protested, and then added with a laugh “…about the same [...]
My blog is 7 months old! In honor of my 200th entry, which actually happened when we were in Colorado, I’ve picked out some past excerpts to post: Shortest Post: In My Own Handwriting ~ Found on a scrap of paper this morning and in my own handwriting: “If no one is going to quote [...]
(Photo: Colleen at the control panel) I was once a prolific letter writer. I suspect that many bloggers were. As someone from a large family, who lives in a different state from most of my family members, my letter writing skills came in handy. When xeroxed Christmas letter became popular, I jumped on the bandwagon, [...]
All the people in my life should know this: Anything that happens when I’m with you could end up in a blog post. It’s not like I go around recording everything. Not even I know what will end up in a post. I just follow where the Muse leads me. I’m her slave. So just [...]
AKA: Sunday is Optional When I was growing up Catholic, we couldn’t eat meat on Fridays. Girls wore hats to church and the mass was still done in Latin. During Lent, we gave up candy and other sweets. No one shopped on Sunday because all the stores were closed. In the spirit of the colonial [...]
I wish all my recent road trip blogging looked this pretty. This is David St. Lawrence of Ripples, blogging at our own wireless Café de Sol, here in Floyd. He’s actually writing about women from Hingham in this shot (see photo and question below).
When Gretchen St. Lawrence and I first met in June for a blogger met-up, we were excited to discover that we hail from the same place. Although we both live in Virginia now, she is from Hingham, Massachusetts, and I am from Hull, the next town over. At our second meeting, last week in the [...]
My fantasy is that at some point during the recent Floyd World Music Festival (Floyd Fest), I would have finagled myself up on stage, grabbed a microphone and shouted to the crowd, “How many bloggers are out there? Let’s see a show of hands!” After all, didn’t my friend, Steve P, get up on the [...]
I can still recall when over 10 years ago a close friend looked me straight in the eye and announced, “I love my Mac.” I turned up my nose and looked at her like she had two heads. Sometime after that, my sister, Kathy, told me that I would love using a computer, once I [...]
My baby blog is 3 months old. Today is my 100th post. In honor of that, a little review is in order. ~ Most commented on post: “Is it Summer Yet?” with 17 comments. It was inspired by Fragments from Floyd, when Fred asked his readers, “When do you know it’s summer?” ~ Most commented [...]
As a writer, my blog gives me the opportunity to break down my body of work into digestible bite size pieces. About a week’s worth of posts will fit on one page at any given time. I think of them like I think about a 7 course meal. I like to have a variety of [...]
People at my Writers’ Workshop want to know why I haven’t been bringing any work for them to critique. They probably think I haven’t been writing, but the opposite is true. I’m writing more and faster than ever, but our circle only meets twice a month. Therein lies the problem. Although 3 out of 8 [...]
The meter is ticking… When asked by a fellow blogger if my stats had gone up after Loose Leaf was listed in the Roanoke Times “Blogging in Southwest Virginia” list, and after my friend, Fragments Fred, who was also listed, told me his had gone up, I had to admit that I didn’t know anything [...]
Legend has it that Peter Merholz coined the word “blog” when he published a side note to his website in the spring of 1999. “I’ve decided to pronounce the word ‘weblog’ as ‘wee-blog.’ Or ‘blog’ for short.” Today the word blog is in the Oxford English Dictionary. ~ From “Who Let the Blogs Out” by [...]
