In honor of my tres gauche faux pas of leaving my Thursday Thirteen up just a tad too long, I am going to start my meandering at the Thursday Thirteen site.
I'm going to visit the 13th poster from this past Thursday and then visit the 13th blog on the blogroll. (If there are fewer than 13, I will visit the last one.) And we're off...
My Life in the Urban Zoo is inspired to write about flowers. I agree that flowers are beautiful and fraught with emotion...but right now all I can think about is how they make me SNEEEEEEZZZZZE!!! Yes, it's Spring allergy season for Di!
How exciting! My second stop took me to Tinkerbell in the Netherlands! I love to meander abroad! She starts off with a somewhat mundane accounting of recent events including the purchase of a lovely computer desk and ends up in a godess-y fantasy that was quite interesting!
When I came upon Stainless Steel Droppings, I was immediately
drawn in by the
beautiful, distressed, antique-y books in the graphic. And just when my eyes had adjusted to the beauty before me...I saw that the blogger is offering a reading challenge!!! Oh, serendipity. I think I might just join up.
For All the World to See is author Colleen Gleason's blog. She writes The Gardella Vampire Chronicles which, if the book covers tell the story, is a cross between Ann Rice and Philippa Gregory...except that several of the cover models are WAY hunkier than The Other Boleyn Girl. Apologies to Ms. Gleason if I reduced your books to one glib sentence without even reading one! When I glanced at the header, I fully expected to see some shameless self-promoting blog that would end my meandering on a cynical note. Instead I found a post about the merits of Drew Barrymore as the heir apparent to Meg Ryan. Now this is a topic to which I have not given much thought, but upon further reflection, I see her point! I may just have to read a Gardella Vampire Chronicle!
Next stop, Quixotical: Chasing a Fallen Star... In her understatement, "What a week" she tells of climbing out of a relaxing bath and going to the door to find an EVICTION NOTICE!!! She sounds so calm. Turns out her landlord has stopped paying the mortgage. Staying calm seems to have worked, because by post end, she found a new place to live and was consuming comfort reads in her bed!
Orpheus Sings the Guitar Electric details 32 things "learnt" in her 32 years. Uh-oh...am I behind? Not sure if I could detail 45 things that I have learnt. Well, maybe 45 things I have learnt, but not 45 things I necessarily abide by. Two of my favorites: "Life is too short for long, boring books. So it's okay to die without finishing Moby Dick." and "Everyone
has something to teach you. Even the people you hate and don't respect.
Especially the people you hate and don't respect." That is SO hard to remember when you are very busy dwelling on why you hate and don't respect someone!!!
Berkeley-ite Bloglily gets philosophical about traveling to Texas with her boys and some friends. There's nothing like flip-flops and a new pedicure to give you some perspective on Spring Break travel. I'll have to remember that next week when we head to Florida for Spring Break.
My meandering is so literary today...next stop A Century of Nerve, author Emma Bolden's blog. Besides a prismatic take on the writing process, Emma offers this wonderful kernel: "I’ve been thinking a lot about change, how, perhaps, the most important
part of it is just being ready, and being patient enough to wait."
And now, alas, a cul-de-sac at the end of my meandering...Creative Writing Contests. I hope that some of my writer-ly readers will visit there...but it doesn't really take me anywhere. So I'm off until next Monday's meandering....
Di
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