In no particular order-because I’m just too impatient to attempt some semblance of a photo collage, here are my great-fulls of 2009.




What do
the following words all share?
GREEN
CARBON FOOTPRINT or CARBON OFFSETTING
MAVERICK
FIRST DUDE
BAILOUT
WALL STREET/MAIN STREET
Internet and texting blues
-MONKEY
<3
ICON or ICONIC
GAME CHANGER
STAYCATION
DESPERATE SEARCH
NOT SO MUCH
WINNER OF FIVE NOMINATIONS
IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
Lake Superior State University “maverick” word-watchers, fresh from the holiday “staycation” but without an economic “bailout” even after a “desperate search,” have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year’s list may be more “green” than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from “Wall Street to Main Street” say they love “not so much” and wish to have erased from their “carbon footprint.”
This post is about one of my favorite Christmas memories. What’s yours?
Lisa Jordan wrote a spectacular article about me in this month’s “My First Sale” column in Afictionado…and I didn’t even have to pay her.
What a woman! Check it out here.
And read the rest of this great ACFW ezine while you’re there…including an article by moi about the multi-talented Mary DeMuth.
Check out this intriguing infographic on the state of our world. And thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for finding it!
This is from
a blog I stumbled upon-one of those link from a link from a link happy occurrences.
Deborah McLean is a stylist, and I am enamored with her work. I just love scrolling through and looking at the juxtapositions and flashes of colors and mish-mash of textures.
If you want your eyes to have dessert today, check out her blog.
As you may already know if you’ve been to this blog a time or two [or more, I hope!], I am a Jessica Hagy groupie. Her Indexed blog is clever, witty, intelligent. I’m posting this one because it seemed so appropriate for my life on this, the 28th anniversary of my 29th birthday.
