People, including myself, talk a lot about leading a balanced life. In general, people mean this to be healthy, like eating a balanced diet. However, I started thinking about it, and I really DON’T like the image of myself teetering along a rooftop, or walking a tightrope. Nor to I like to think of myself [...]
Here’s the deal. We just got home from a softball game, and now I have to do some child-nurturing and get myself to bed too. And I’m sending you elsewhere to read about balance, so that I can balance myself. Actually, I’m suddenly wondering whether balance is really a good metaphor for life after all. [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2010 in Technology, Writing
In case you didn’t know, yes, I do blog elsewhere from time to time! Here’s a sampling of what I’ve been doing lately. On What’s the Mission, I post spiritual reflections and book reviews (I belong to a great program called Viral Bloggers in which I get free books!). Latest reviews include Picking Dandelions by [...]
At 5:00 this morning, the alarm clock came to life and blared out that there’d been another earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 6.1. “Oh, no” “What?!” My husband and I responded simultaneously. He turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, since he was going to work two hours late today. I rolled over and [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2009 in books
I don’t do many of these list memes, but I liked this one. Wendy (she’s my sister) started this one. And she didn’t make up any silly rules about tagging people, which is refreshing. Making lists is hard for me, though. Why this one, and not that one? Five Books I Know Better Than I [...]
Posted on May 04th, 2009 in Technology, Writing
I’m dead tired tonight, and couldn’t deal with any of the topics on my list of things to blog about. Still, I wanted to do some kind of writing, even if it wasn’t fit for public consumption. So I’ve been writing, in a very rough form, my technology memoir. New genre? Sure. You see, when [...]
I really need to get more sleep, but I’m caught in a loop. This happens fairly often. It starts with me not getting enough sleep, either because I stayed up too late playing on the internets or because some kid was keeping me awake. Or because I was hacking and coughing all night. The next [...]
In case you missed it, yesterday’s post was a contest. Guest blogger and author Christina Katz posted about why one should write a book, and she asked readers to comment on why they wanted to write a book. All commenters on that post were eligible for a drawing. The winner, by random drawing, is Erin [...]
