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Category > Mysterious things
Frustrations - Escala Video
I was so frustrated yesterday. On YouTube I saw a video I wanted to share with you all. The video featured eScala - four beautiful girls with electronic strings doing wonderful things with music. I thought you would all like it too.
However, I couldn’t figure out how to get WordPress to let me do it. […]
Facing the blank page
I’m determined to write a post today, but at the moment my mind is blank. Anyone who knows me will tell you I talk at 500 words per minute with gusts up to 750 WPM. That’s my spouse’s saying, actually, but there’s truth to it.
Many people also know I blog […]
Charging the batteries of the mind
It’s a mysterious thing - the effect that nature in all its glory has on the mind. One minute you’re about to crawl up your arm and fall off. The next minute, you’re stunned by the beauty and your mind quiets and rests while you just look and listen.
We camped this weekend at Rancho Guahome […]
Looking back on a good trip
We are home from vacation. Some of the places we visited were heart-breakingly beautiful. This is Ashland, Oregon, home of a Shakespeare Festival. It wasn’t festival time when we were there, but it was wonderful to eat our lunch outside, then browse through the shops. Ashland doesn’t take itself too seriously, at least not in […]
Heading south
It took me a full day to get used to taking the highway that was going south. I guess we were traveling a one-word trip. We needed to change “north” to “south” if we were to go home.
It’s been a good trip. We breezed through central Oregon with a stop for lunch at Ashland, OR. […]
Vacationing in wet places
As we traveled north, it became greener. For a drylander trees of this caliber are a wondrous thing. Now, north and east of Seattle everything is green. The trees are tall and numerous. Ferns grow underneath. And everything is dripping wet.
Today I had to buy a warm jacket. I don’t mind shopping, but I don’t […]
We are vacationing in beautiful places
We are traveling south to north on the west coast. This is Oregon Coast.
These are California redwoods.
See you a few miles down the road.
Marilynne
The Kids Are In School
There is a new school next to our home. For the first time, from our home we have the sound of children at play, the ringing of bells, and general fussiness that goes with schools.
Our home borders one edge of the new school, so we got to attend all the input planning meetings about building […]
Why Mentor?
A large number of published writers are exposing the secrets of the trade to anyone who wants to read it. Astounding, isn’t it? Check out Poe’s Deadly Daughters. Here, day after day, the bloggers not only promote their books, but give advice to budding authors. This is free.
Why do they do this? Because they believe […]
