Have you played around with this site xtranormal.com? You can make animated videos of your writing, and it is a seriously fun way to spend more time that you have available to you. I decided to turn my recent blog post about bad parenting into a movie. Now, instead of reading about how you are [...]
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What’s Going On
See. I tricked you! You thought I was back and writing, but then I took another week off. Actually, I didn't really take a week off of writing. I have been writing and some other things besides, which I'd love to share in some way that's witty and literary and dazzling. But all I've got [...]
Codependence Is the Mother of Invention
Before I knew my husband was a sex addict, I knew that he liked flirting with other women. Probably a little too much. I could tell he got a thrill out of it, and I worried that he would accidentally take this "entertainment" too far. He'd lead some poor woman on and she'd get aggressive [...]
Great Interview Experiment 2009
Image credit: Photo by MoRpH Snim•° on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last year I participated in Neil Kramer's Great Interview Experiment. In the process, I got to know two interesting new bloggers and was lucky enough to make a lasting friend in the absolutely fabulous Headless Mom. Who could ask for more than that? [...]
Fixed!
Whew! I fixed the problems with my comments and feed. And this awesome plugin fixed the problem with WordPress automatically changing my straight quotes to curly quotes. You know, the one I broke my blog trying to fix in the first place. So now everything is working right! I love it when a plan comes [...]
Sabbath
Image credit: Photo by Vanessa Pike-Russell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Spiritual inspiration can come from the oddest bits of serendipity. I was at a talk a few months ago by a Zen Buddhist who talked about making each moment sacred, about how we could light incense before doing the dishes and make the [...]
Digging Out
This image is copyrighted. All rights reserved. As of this moment, I have a backlog of 283 messages (and 608 Google Alerts) in my e-mail inbox. (Maybe there's one there from you!) So, I've decided that rather than writing today, I'm going to try to dig through at least some of that virtual clutter. While [...]
We Build What We Can
Image credit: Photo by gilest on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A friend forwarded me a link to a wonderful blog post by Christopher Niemann full of minimalist Lego representations of all things New York. The heading, above photo after photo of clever little scenes and objects, reads: During the cold and dark Berlin winter [...]
Look What I Won!
Hey, what's that over there? Could it be artwork on my fridge? Yes indeed, it seems to be a picture of our family (complete with cat in the window of our house) drawn by my daughter, Janie. Don't we all look happy under that blue sunny sky and... Wait. What's that holding us up? Could [...]
Working the 12 Steps Online
Image credit: Photo bybeachblogger on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons I have mentioned a few times that I'm working the 12 Steps with an online group, and several of you have asked where you can get in on the action yourselves. The group I'm working with is at The Junkies' Wives Club. We are currently on [...]
