wordle day!
It’s the last day of the 2013 Blogathon, and the word-cloud theme day. I’m guessing that Wordle pulled text only from my most recent posts; otherwise, I’d have expected to see a lot more instances of “colonoscopy.” đŸ˜‰
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heat wave and best intentions
Today, I’d hoped to announce?finally?the launch of The Indie Pub podcast. That’s not going to happen. We’re at the beginning of a heat wave here in Portland, and I’m laying low for a bit. I’ve found that my ideal temperature is around 58 degrees F. I start to have trouble when the thermometer sails past…
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The Good Things Box
In the waning days of 2012, I read this “Jar of Good Things” post, or something remarkably similar to it. I immediately loved the idea of sending “atta girl!” notes to my future self during the new year. Instead of using a jar, I found an old shoe box and scribbled “Good Things Box” on…
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why are books always better than movies?
Friday night, we went to see “World War Z” in the theater. I hadn’t read the novel ahead of time, but even though the movie isn’t reported to follow the book closely at all I still left the theater feeling pretty sure that I would have preferred Max Brooks’ version. I’m beginning to wonder if…
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colonoscopy report
As I’d blogged earlier, I had my first colonoscopy a little over a week ago. It was not an awesome experience. The clear-liquid diet was easy, but the prep?with three different kinds of roto-rooter-strength laxatives?was painful. I didn’t have IBS symptoms, as I’d feared would be triggered. Instead, it was all about acid burns and…
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silence
“Your silence will not protect you. I blinked at the bumper sticker on the car stopped ahead of me at the traffic light. I hadn’t heard or read the statement before, but if I had been walking or skipping down the road these words would have tripped me up. I hadn’t read Audre Lorde’s powerful…
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elusive genius
The other day, I finally got around to watching author Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk, “Your elusive creative genius.” Gilbert, of course, is the author of the best-selling Eat, Pray, Love and its follow-up, Committed: A Love Story, and I loved her comments in this talk about the grave possibility that her best work is behind…