It started with an essay in the (supposedly) high-minded publication for Wall Street Journal subscribers, WSJ Magazine. This comes out every other month in the print edition, and is a slick magazine designed to appeal to high-income readers. It is filled with ads for expensive clothing, watches, and jewelry, and features stories about people and …
Category: Random Musings About Life
Photo Challenge – Warmth
How about a sleek black cat, lounging in the warm sun in her fur coat. Warm! http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/
Photo Challenge: Yellow
Here's a little guy I captured through my kitchen window in January of 2011. He is a Townsend's Warbler and he comes around most winters. I love the black mask on the yellow background.
Easy One! Photo Challenge: Twinkle
I must have hundreds of pictures of the beautiful Christmas lights in the "Bavarian Village" of Leavenworth, Washington. Here's one of my favorites. Leavenworth is in the Cascade Mountains, just west of Wenatchee on US Highway 2. Every summer, my husband goes there to the International Accordion Celebration. We try to drive up there a …
Just some thoughts on blogging…what do readers like?
I've been doing this here blog for a few years now, and I have noticed some things. Like, I seem to get new followers whenever I do a post that's not relevant to the theme of my blog (conservatism). And a goodly number of other WordPress bloggers seem to blog about their personal lives, and …
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Something Different-My Own Recipe
Have you ever invented your own recipe for a main course or side dish for your family? I did, while I was single, and couldn't afford to eat out. Since I cooked all my own meals, I had to introduce some variation to my somewhat monotonous menu. I actually came up with this one while …
Thanksgiving
I subscribe to the RushBabe49 Properly Grateful Theory of Life. Often throughout the year, I stop and think about how fortunate I am to live in this Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. By the accident of birth, I had upper-middle-class parents, in one of the most beautiful parts of this country (Pacific Northwest). I …
I’m not Catholic, But…
This recent move by Pope Francis concerns me. Since Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope, much has been written about his leftist leanings. His writings have indicated that he is open to relaxing some Church strictures on marriage (in favor of Communion for divorced or cohabiting people) and homosexuality (playing down the strictures against homosexual behavior). …
Read The Fine Print! World Hello Day?
I received an email from a colleague at work today. It seems that Friday is one of our other employees' birthday, which happens to coincide with "World Hello Day". I had never heard of the November 21 "special day", but I had to read all the way down to the bottom of the email chain …
