Tagged: puttingwordstogether

07
Jun
2015

A PERSUASIVE ESSAY CONCERNING THE FEASIBILITY OF STRIKING THE LETTER M OUT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Originally written for English 213 class, early spring, 1984 First of all, I wish to be clear that I will not be objective about this paper. I want you to agree with this idea. I want to wring you for all you’re worth, using any technique I have to, in order to achieve this end. I want to squeeze tears out of your eyes and yeses out of your lips and I will stop at nothing to do this. Forget Logical, goodbye Rationality; there is no place for these paltry ideas. We are talking Persuasion here, and we want (and...

25
May
2015

FEELING LIKE WRITING

I don’t even know what to write about anymore. There are things I can’t write about that are filling up my brain. There are things I could write about, but I don’t even know what they are. Ideas run through my mind and bubble into nothing by the time I sit down. Funny conversations disappear into the air, expelled on the breath of memory and forgetfulness. Even when I have ideas, they seem stupid. They seem trite and banal and, above all, boring. And then I forget what I was going to say again. I’ve been keeping this blog since...

17
May
2015

ALL BY MYSELF

My friend Sheryl recently wrote about having no one to do things with; that her family has other interests and most of the time they don’t coincide with hers. I often feel the same way. I know that people think I have a perfect life and a perfect family, but the truth is, I have a good life and a family that, while we love one another and enjoy each other’s company most of the time, have very different needs and hobbies and passions. I have a couple of good friends here that share some my interests and thankfully I...

16
Feb
2015

WORDS, MORE WORDS, SOME MARTIN, AND MEMORY

It’s so quiet round these here parts, with half our family gone for the week. I’m sure Martin is loving it: getting to sleep in and play WoW as long as he likes without having to wrestle his sister for the computer. He doesn’t get to wrestle me for it, because if I say I want it, I get it. Snap. Last Friday I bought season 5 of Downton Abbey (which I’m pretty sure I have typed as DownTOWN Abbey every single first attempt at typing it, ever) and we are already done, plus we found the Christmas special online...

17
Dec
2014

MIRROR OF THE MIND

I know, I know, using my blog to write to-do lists is the ULTIMATE in lame. And yet. Who else should I share the most important things in my life with? You think my husband and children give a rat’s ass about my to-do list? It’s short. Or at least it is from this end, when I haven’t actually started it yet. Write Christmas cards Buy stamps Mail Christmas cards Post online Christmas letter Bake Christmas cookies Check gift pile status…are the kids’ presents balanced? If not, remedy Clean the freaking house Buy Christmas food, Swedish and American style Work...

21
Nov
2014

GUEST BLOGGER

Since I didn’t want to just toss out another throwaway post, I asked Martin if I could post his latest article for his school IB newspaper. This is the third article he’s written, though this one was a collaboration with a friend. The first article was about indie music and the second about Halloween costumes for those who want to avoid store-bought witches, vampires and sexy cats. So, here you go, an extremely well-written article (if I do say so myself) by MY SON (and a friend) which will be PUBLISHED in a (school) NEWSPAPER. American Horror Story—Terrifying tales specific...

14
Nov
2014

PRODUCTS OF THE PAST

Don’t you ever worry about the fact that all the stores with stuff are closing and all that will be left, soon, are clothing boutiques, hair salons, liquor stores, groceries, and restaurants? Bookstores are more and more threatened by Kindles and other e-readers. Stores that sell movies are going under as Netflix and Apple TV take over. Stores that sell music have pretty much already gone the way of the dinosaur. There are still some toy stores out there, but more and more, it seems that we do the majority of our shopping and ordering online. We stream our music...

06
Nov
2013

WRITING ABOUT WRITING AND WHY I WRITE

Only 6 days in and I’ve run out of things to write about. No, that’s not true…more that I’ve run out of ideas for things to write about. It’s a temporary problem that comes in waves: blogger’s block. I’ve been writing this blog since August 2003; that’s over 10 years of journal entries, memories, photos, anecdotes, inanities, bulletpoint lists, opinions, thoughts and random observations. In fact, a quick peek at my LJ stats tells me that I have written 2213 journal entries since August 6, 2003. That’s an average of 221.3 journal entries a year! An average of 18.44 posts...

03
Nov
2013

THE GRIEVING PROCESS

Martin and I are almost done with The West Wing. We have only 4 more episodes left and we just watched Matt Santos win the Presidential election and Leo McGarry die. I confess to having had tears in my eyes. Martin did, too. I never saw most of the episodes from season 7 that we are watching now, but I remember feeling sad then when I heard the news that John Spencer, the actor that played Leo, had actually passed away, unlike the actress that played Dolores Landingham, who only died in character. We were sad about her, too. I...

01
Nov
2013

A MONTH OF BLOGGING?

Doubtful. Judging by the way real life keeps grabbing my arm and dragging me down the street, chances are slim that I’ll actually be able to REMEMBER to write every day much less actually do it. But you never know. I’ve always considered myself a bit of an outsider, in many ways, despite belonging to this group or that group or this organization or what not. The reason why wasn’t because I wasn’t one of the cool kids, though I wasn’t…but more has to do with the fact that I had friends in ALL the groups. In junior high maybe...

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