Did you know April was National Book Blogging Month? Neither did I, until I read Jennifer Mattern’s link post on turning your blog into a book. That post included a link to Nina Amir’s post about writing a short book on your blog this month. These posts (and the others in Jennifer’s post) caught my … Read more
Middle Zone Musings’ groupwrite project for this month is What I Learned from … 2009. Robert Hruzek has challenged us to compile a list of our favorite, best, most popular, whatever we choose posts for each month of 2009. Choices like this are always hard for me for a couple of reasons: How do you … Read more
I grew up on a farm so you would expect me to know something about plants. However, south Texas was experiencing the worst drought in history for much of my childhood. Though the drought we’re in right now is more severe than the 1950s drought, the earlier one is considered the worst because it lasted … Read more
The theme for this month’s group writing project at Middle Zone Musings is What I Learned From Bloopers, Mistakes, and Embarrassing Moments. While I’d like to say I’ve never experienced any of those, you’d know I was lying. 🙂 The hard part was deciding which one to write about. When I was in physical therapy … Read more
A few years ago, when you talked about your community, you meant one of the first two definitions at Dictionary.com: 1. a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. 2. a locality inhabited by such a group. Today, you’re … Read more
The theme for this month’s group writing project at Middle Zone Musings is What I Learned from Adversity. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you might think I have plenty to write about. I’ve been through a number of experiences that could be called adversity … things like: Rejection, both personal … Read more
photo credit: karen horton The theme of the February What I Learned From … group writing project at Middle Zone Musings is love. My first experience with love was the love shown to me and my siblings by our parents. They never had much money, but they always showed their love in countless ways. My father … Read more
You’ve probably seen those mysterious hints around the blogosphere of something big coming to Middle Zone Musings soon. And you’ve probably been wondering what in tarnation Robert is up to now! The secret is out. You can read the complete announcement at BLOGAPALOOZA – What I Learned From 2008. To participate, write a post with … Read more
When I read the theme for this month’s group writing project at Middle Zone Musings, it was déjà vu all over again. I was sure Robert had run out of topics and was starting to repeat himself. The topic is What I Learned from Government, and I knew I had written on that subject before. … Read more
photo credit: Bhernandez Stress. We all deal with it on a regular basis. Some stress is good. Right now, I’m stressed as I plan my book launch party and schedule my blog book tour … and wonder if anyone will buy my book. That stress pushes me to be more productive so the launch of Dream … Read more