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#268; local flair
I’m trying to get more into the Boston blogging scene as a motivation to write more often (my writing over the last few months – fiction & blogging – has sadly come to almost a stand still) and would love to know what Boston blogs you all ready that I should check out. I’m also slowly but surely getting to know the city better (starting with trying to get off the redline every so often – this has resulted in many a great restaurant & wine bar discoveries, which I’m hoping to write more about soon). Besides, I’ve been here a year now, I’d better start at some point, right? And so, I’ll start us off with two such sites:
Chef on a Diet (she’s my best friend, and we all want her to write more often, so obviously she gets a shout out) and Deep Dish & Democrats, a former Bostonian now exploring Chicago and national politics. Both good reads with a lot of potential so check them out, let me know what you think, and leave your favorites in my comments!
#267; Characters of the Ws
I was given a challenge the other day to come up with five characters that I love, all to do with the letter ‘W’. And so, here you go. If you’d like to try it, let me know!
The Rules:
1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
#266; be my honeypie
#265; family reunion fun times
It’s truly amazing to me how the time passes; how people you considered your annoyances, your best friends, and biggest rivals – somehow, over the years – become your family. I’m lucky to have a huge family. On my dad’s side, there are five of us in our generation and now we’ve nearly doubled thanks to marriages, plus they all have little baseball teams of babies. On my mom’s side, there are over a dozen in our generation, now nearly twice that thanks to people partnering off, and I got together with a few of those cousins this weekend in Maine. My cousins even invited aunts and uncles I haven’t seen in years, with nearly 30 of us all in one house for cook outs, photos, and dirt biking (including my boyfriend Piece in his first Maine reunion with us, my parents up from Myrtle Beach, and my aunt who moved to Ohio a few years ago). Check out how the years have changed us…
#264; women as targets
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me, but they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim, they all want to control women. They want to control how we dress, they want to control how we act, they even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe. But even here at home, we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us because America needs to set an example for the entire world.” ~ Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton
