Category Archives: blogging
Blogiversary
Like Anjali, I recently passed my 500 post milestone for this blog, which I first posted in on July 12, 2007. That also means that my blog will turn five this summer, the same year that my children and my marriage turn ten. That first month, I had stopped posting in an old personal blog …
Jumpstarting My Writing
As important as writing is to me, and as central as it is to my identity and conception of myself, when something has to drop from my daily juggling act, too often, it’s writing. So for 2012, I’m determined to jumpstart my trajectory as a writer and poet. This is a broader goal, not a …
Twitter, One Year Later
A year ago, I succumbed to my curiosity and joined Twitter, despite deciding six months previously that it wasn’t for me. Since then, I’ve tweeted over 800 times and follow more than 110 people, and have over 50 followers myself, which are tiny numbers in the grand scheme of things, but also show, I think, …
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …
Cooking with Pioneer Woman: Pizza Crust
This weekend, we tackled our first recipe from my self-imposed Cooking with Pioneer Woman challenge. I say “we” because it ended up being a team effort, with my husband and Lucy both pitching in with me to make dinner for us all the Sunday after Thanksgiving. For this first leap, I chose PW’s recipe for …
Cooking with PW: Step One
So I went through the Pioneer Woman cookbook last night, getting ready to plan my challenge and made a three-column list: recipes I’ve made before, recipes I won’t want to eat, and recipes I will want to eat. I figure the recipes I’ve made before don’t NEED to be made again unless I feel like …
Cooking With Pioneer Woman
I’ve been a huge fan of The Pioneer Woman for years, and one of the biggest appeals for me has always been her cooking section, the source of many of my favorite recipes, from Twice-Baked Potatoes to French Breakfast Puffs. I like the hearty American style of most of her recipes, but even more importantly, …
Pioneer Woman and Me
Thanks to a dear subscription-having friend, I finally got to read the entirety of the recent New Yorker piece on The Pioneer Woman, otherwise known as Ree Drummond, otherwise known as one of my favorite, must-read, daily-check websites. Like many of her readers, I suspect that Ree and I don’t have much in common: I …
Oscillating Wildly
I have always been the kind of writer who hops from piece to piece, genre to genre; if my energy starts to run low with one, I jump to the next, trusting that the novelty will be invigorating. The benefit of this approach is that I sometimes do go back and find myself willing to …
Twitterpated
After doing a lot of thinking about Twitter and ultimately deciding it wasn’t for me, you may be surprised to see a “follow me on Twitter!” button on my website now. Why did I do it? Well, I’ve already posted my first statement tagged #edchat, and also a link to the latest post on my …
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