Humor
The Bluebird of Happiness — Do We Forget About The One In-Hand?
Have we raised our expectations for what will make us happy to unreasonable heights? I wonder. Too often it seems as if we are striving and searching for a bigger, better kind of happiness. And always more, of course. It’s as if we are determined to prove that when it comes to the Bluebird of […]
BTSN Reviews: KISS CHRONICLES by Virginia Sanders
I love personal journeys and people brave enough to share them. And, in KISS CHRONICLES, author Virginia M. Sanders doesn’t hold back. Frequently humorous and occasionally raw, her emotions are always real. First kisses and cancer are an intriguing combination. Both are prepackaged emotional triggers, but, usually on opposite sides of our emotional spectrums. We […]
~ Seeing Things In A New Light: Windless Kite Festival
A Windless Kite Festival (An oxymoron, if there ever was one.) Held indoors (Of course, where else do you fly a kite.) In January (Any other month every sane person would outside flying their kite — in the wind!) An annual event celebrating its 12th year in 2013 (It’s a joke. Right? What could there […]
~ Merry Merry Up-Side-Down Christmas
I originally posted this in 2010, but it still makes me smile. So here it is: I clearly remember going into gales of laughter as a child when seeing anyone talk while up-side-down. Chin talking is what they call it now. I don’t think we had a name for it then. And I don’t remember […]
~ The Sisterhood Of The Never Imagined Empowerment NOW T-Shirt
I recently went on a trip to a city I’d never been to before to hear a woman I’d never met in person speak to a group I’d only read about in the news and it prompted me to send my nieces a cartoon t-shirts I’m calling “THE SISTERHOOD OF THE NEVER IMAGINED EMPOWERMENT NOW T-SHIRT”. It […]
~ For The Joy of Animals: Hamster Spin
People complain that life and work are such a “Rat Race.” To me, at least, it all feels like a giant “Hamster Spin.” Is your life a rat race or hamster spin? ##
~ Celebrating Creativity: Somebody That I Used To Know
It is always fascinating to see how creativity feeds and inspires creativity. It’s a cycle that happens within and across every field imaginable. Ask any inventor, artist, writer, musician, designer or engineer — they seek and find inspiration anywhere and everywhere. Somebody That I Used To Know - by Australian-Belgian singer /songwriter Gotye, featuring New Zealand singer/guitarist Kimbra. It starts […]
~ Dear Fifth Wave Feminists, We Need You!
In Caitlin Moran’s outrageous, funny and heartbreakingly honest feminist manifesto How to Be a Woman, she calls for a fifth wave (by her count) of feminism to rise up. Pointing at the statistics that say only 29% of American women and 42% of British women call themselves Feminists, she rails at the anti-feminism sentiment and […]
~ For The Joy of Animals: Lip Smackingly Cute Possum
There is something about the sight of a Possum that usually makes me sad. Mostly because it’s almost always dead on the side of the road. But also because a little part of me is secretly relieved that what is died isn’t someone’s cat or dog. The relief is wrong — but it’s always there. […]
~ BTS Reviews: STIRRING UP TROUBLE by Juli Alexander
” … a delightful witchy … YA romance … “ Did you ever wonder why witches are ugly, green and have warts? Well… It’s not their wickedness showing through. It’s their punishment from Zeus for using their powers for self-serving purposes. Which leaves nerdy 15-year-old Zoe Miller, who is a witchwiz at STIRRING UP TROUBLE, trying […]
~ Soliloquy For An Avid Reader
Earlier this summer, fellow writer Suzie Ivy posted My Writer’s Twist on Shakespeare based on the “To be or not to be” Soliloquy for Hamlet over at the Reading and Writing Cafe blog. She urged other writers to follow suit with whatever issues they were feeling conflicted over — work, parenting, eating, exercise … Like most people, I have a […]
~ For The Joy of Animals: Woe Is Henri, the Cat
Oui. It is true. The sun hides, while the wind stills. The air chills and the clouds weep. The earth languishes in sodden sympathy. As millions watch. And laugh. At the woeful tail and frenchified air. Of Henri, the cat. ~~ ### (h/t S.Ivy – Henri 2, the first video above, was uploaded to Youtube […]
~ For The Joy Of Animals: Gambolling Cows
After a winter spent cooped up in a barn eating oats and grains, can there be a better celebration of spring then seeing cows surging toward the heady smells of the fresh open air rejoicing at the uninhibited freedom of the great outdoors and rediscovering the sheer bliss of personally selecting their own patch of grass […]
~ BTS Reviews: BAD LUCK OFFICER by Suzie Ivy
” Ms. Ivy bares and shares it all with humor, passion and candor … a riveting read “ If you love cop shows and cop novels and think the various CSI television series are how law enforcement actually works, then let me introduce you to someone who will set the record straight and tell it like it […]
~ Is It 2012 or 1812?
Regardless of what side of the religious/contraception insurance/abortion debate you are on, you have to admit it is rather odd that in 2012 when women are educated participants in every field imaginable, that our government… and the media… __ would think that only men were qualified to discuss the merits of these issues that are so intimately […]
