BLOGtober Fest Day 4: Promote a post from the past

Well, this title is self-evident.  This is day 4 of our BLOGtober Fest challenge from Arkansas Women Bloggers, and I’m in Madison at a conference.  So here’s a post from last fall about fall in Madison – seems appropriate.   What makes me laugh is that the post (from last fall), references an earlier post aboutContinueContinue reading “BLOGtober Fest Day 4: Promote a post from the past”

Things I need to say on the eve of 9/11

I’ve been thinking about this entry for a while. Well, for about 10 minutes anyway. Last night I found myself at a local professional theater’s production of Noises Off, and as I was telling my date (my colleague from work, don’t get excited) how many times I’d seen it, I realized the last time wasContinueContinue reading “Things I need to say on the eve of 9/11”

Missing home, thanks to the Hudson River School

It’s safe to say that I’ve been working pretty hard at falling in love with my adopted hometown here in the Ozarks recently.  I’ve been hiking all over, exploring some really beautiful areas, visiting cool places like the Ozark Folk Center and spending time with my super-cool Arkansan friends.  And of course, I see allContinueContinue reading “Missing home, thanks to the Hudson River School”

Storytelling in the Ozarks

It’s a familiar feeling for me. I’m in a store, chatting amiably about nothing much with the checkout clerk.  And then I feel it.  That antsy, gotta get-away-feeling.  That sense of “ok, I don’t have anything else to say, can I leave now?” Maybe it’s my Yankee upbringing.  Maybe I’m impatient, or even a littleContinueContinue reading “Storytelling in the Ozarks”

A blogging conference that wasn’t really about blogging

CAUTION:  Introspection ahead. Now then, before the incredible ladies who put together the Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged (AWBU) conference get too upset, let me clarify.  This most certainly was a conference about blogging.  There were sessions on blogging and dozens of bloggers hanging out talking non-stop about blogging (among other things).  Heck, even the servers atContinueContinue reading “A blogging conference that wasn’t really about blogging”