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Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Simple Life

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. – Seneca
Colin and I went to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin this weekend for our friend, Andy’s, ordination. Andy is married to Aimee, my best friend. Aimee and I were maid/matrons of honor at each other’s weddings.
After years in London and our life now on the hectic East Coast, it [...]

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Problogger Content Madness!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

OK, STOP already. Darren Rowse, the true-to-his-title “ProBlogger,” has tweeted, digged and dumped into my reader the same post, under a dozen different titles, over and over again and I can’t take it anymore!

So, to you Bloggers with no audiences, the answer to the repeated and repeated question, “Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build [...]

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British Columbia Tour, Part two

Thursday, August 21, 2008

I forgot to post the rest of our photos from our trip to Canada, so if anyone is interested, here they are.

After we left Jasper, we took the Skeena train (two days) through Prince George and stayed overnight there, (Hi uncle Lloyd and Aunt Jackie!) then on to Prince Rupert.
There we picked up the B.C. [...]

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Comments Accepted

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Not too long ago, I did something stupid on this blog and changed a setting. That setting made people “login” to comment.
The downside of that was that people I WANTED to leave comments got stopped from doing it. The other downside of that was that people I DIDN’T want to leave comments somehow figured out [...]

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The Company of Songbirds

Friday, August 15, 2008

Something in the new birdseed has songbirds clamoring at the brass cage around my feeder.
Wild songbirds– sparrows, chickadees, blackbirds, nuthatches, purple finches, tufted titmice, cardinals– they have come to visit me at my back window.
When my family was here these past weeks, it made me tired. Feet on the floors above, the water running always, [...]

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Summer Ending

Thursday, August 14, 2008

After the hail storm, the summer seems to have given in.
The days are noticeably shortening, cooler… the humidity still clings, but something within the sunny days isn’t full of the same hope that it bannered in the early part of June. The clouds have come and are bringing the first longings of autumn.
Time for [...]

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Tree versus the Tide

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

I got trapped out on my screened porch the other day during a very bad storm. I locked myself out of my house. My neighbors on both sides were home and they had keys but my trees were casting their branches off into the wind. I huddled in the corner of the porch and hoped [...]

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London Blue Sky

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Occasionally, when I am just drifting off to sleep, or while I am in savansa at yoga class, I have a sudden flash from my memory. It’s a sensory flash, like a living photograph.

Lately those flashes have been of London, of my home around Maida Vale,
and of the color of the sky and the light [...]

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How does ljcfyi do it?

Saturday, August 2, 2008

One of my favorite bloggers, hands down, is little Jenny C., the official blogger for Kodak. I’ll tell you, all I want to know is this: how does she do it? She is updating her blog everyday, but not just the front page. She also works on updating her pages on the following:

MySugar
Twitter
Youtube
Plaxo
Kodak’s Thousand Words
Rocha-Chatter
Craftster
de.licio.us
MySpace
And [...]

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Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Simple Life

British Columbia Tour, Part two

Comments Accepted

The Company of Songbirds

Summer Ending

Tree versus the Tide

London Blue Sky

How does ljcfyi do it?

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