I enjoy Jeff Galloway’s e-newsletters about running. I have a lot of respect for Jeff, and I know that his route to success went through Tallahassee, which leads me to feel a commonality with him. But I have been unsettled about something Jeff wrote in his April 2011 newsletter. Even though I have not been an Olympic runner […]
Hey You! Are You Talking to the Air? (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
This week, random.org “assigned” me Mama Kat prompt number five: The 10 Dos and Don’ts of Airplane Etiquette. I love to fly, and it takes a lot to really tick me off in an airline/travel situation.When I first sat down to compose this post, I thought I would have a symmetrical list – five “do’s” and five “don’ts.” […]
Wordless Wednesday (Sweet Summer Finale Edition)
As the second week of school gets underway here in Tallahassee, we say goodbye to summer with the Sweet Summer Finale of the Crazy Days of Summer Photo Challenge. I suppose I could look at the summer as something that started full of anticipation: and ended up empty: but I think it is just the […]
Mother’s Milk/La Leche de Madre (A Let’s Reverb Prompt)
The August 2011 “Let’s Reverb” prompt is: Describe an unexpected moment, activity, sighting or conversation that touched you during July. I have responded via a vlog: Featured in the vlog: The wooden nursing symbol teether is from Little Sapling Toys. The picture of the Guatemalan woman is from: Nurturing Across Cultures and the RebozoWay Project (the Nurturing Across Cultures link […]
Get the Picture? (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
This week, random.org “assigned” me Mama Kat prompt number five: top ten reasons why you’re glad you’re done with school. Due to the time consuming nature of life, I have had to choose just one reason for this post. I am glad school is behind me because I will not be in any more… School Pictures Do […]
Wordless Wednesday (Not THAT Blue Sky Edition)
I found this week’s Crazy Days of Summer Photo Challenge theme (blue skies) quite challenging. After all, each blogger is working with the same basic material: Unfortunately, as I alluded to in Sunday’s post, my son has spent way too much of this summer looking at someone else’s engineered blue sky rather than the real […]