November 2010

betsy, tacy and tib, my old friends

November 19, 2010

I have this old friend named Betsy Warrington Ray. Do you know her? Any of you Betsy-Tacy fans? Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books were my no-contest favorite books as a girl. I can still see the particular corner where the “L” books were shelved in the portable that served as my hometown library. In fact, […]

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fired up

November 10, 2010

Yep, Little Man, I get it. I get what it’s like to be fired up about something. [flickr]5165233697[/flickr] This weekend I went out of town with a couple of writing friends. We woke and walked along the beach and wrote and walked to the beach again and wrote some more. We cooked from what seems […]

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the search engine post, volume 2

November 2, 2010

One of the best parts of blogging is, of course, the comments one receives. On days that I don’t receive comments, I have to satisfy myself with reading my blog stats. On WordPress, there’s a very handy, easy-to-read, single-page stat report. And one section of that report lists “search engine terms”–the phrases that people type […]

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