Archive for August, 2009
28 Aug
Simply Because It Is Awesome
27 Aug
Linky
Over the past couple of days I have updated my blogroll and links sections on the right of the blog. I encourage you to check them out. It is not an exhaustive list (thank you Google Reader!), but I do read each of them. I’ll add some more hopefully soon.
26 Aug
Dark Night of the (Joyful) Soul
Today is Mother Teresa’s birthday.
Excuse me. Today is Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s birthday.
If you wanna know more about her life, EWTN has a great site set up, and I encourage you to peruse it.
I’ll admit, I was never that interested in Mother Teresa. I knew who she was and it wasn’t like I didn’t like [...]
25 Aug
What’s On Your Nightstand?
5 Minutes for Books hosts a monthly “What’s On Your Nightstand?” on the 4th Tuesday of the month. I am 38 minutes away as I type this, but better late than never! (p.s. this is a sneak peek for upcoming book reviews!)
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America by Joe Posnanski [...]
9 Aug
The Wednesday Sisters
I’m trying to read more, and I figured if I’m reading more, then I need to share. So I’ll try to do some book reviews after I finish books. Here’s my first one:
THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS by Meg Waite Clayton
I picked up this book at Target mainly because, well, I read the back and it said [...]
8 Aug
Working my way through a block
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve had a little bit of a writer’s block recently, which is why there haven’t been many posts. The words just aren’t coming. So, to try to kick it, I’m going to do some random writing prompts to simply get me back in the game. I hope you [...]
7 Aug
7 Quick Takes
1. I know, I know. It’s a real post, not just a video of a song I like. Don’t get too excited, I don’t know how regular I’m going to be with this. I seem to be in a small writing drought. I’ve started a post a million times only to leave it blank. I’ll [...]