A Book Plate that is in the Public Domain This book-plate is from a book of collected book-plates by Frank Brangwyh, , 1867-? and Eden Phillpotts, 1862-1960. The plate was for the library of Mario Borsa. The only alteration I have made to the image was to crop it and extend the black border to […]
I Want To Be On This Chicago Sea Dog Cruise!
I really wanted to go on this cruise on July 24th, the night before the BlogHer Pre-con, but I missed the deadline for posting the info – included below – to be entered into a pool of bloggers who could attend. Drat. But as I was doing some PR for a post I wrote about […]
5 Ways to Keep Blogging Fresh
“How do you keep BLOGGING fresh year after year?” is the prompt for Monday, April 22nd in BlogHer's NaBloPoMo. Because I'm creating an A to Z theme this month, I am freely rearranging prompts to fit my needs. This is the “B” post. I have given this a bit of thought and I have identified […]
The Worlds Inside My Head and The Worlds Outside My Door
I've been neglecting my virtual world in favor of the physical world. This is atypical for me. The world inside my head, my thoughts, ideas, and my written expression of them have always been real to me. I can keep myself entertained for days on ends with my own thoughts. I tell people I could […]
From Ashes I Rise
I started writing this post a few days ago on Ash Wednesday. We are now into the season of Lent. I don't know exactly what that means for Catholics. I'm not Catholic. I'm not exactly a NONE either. What's a NONE? It is a term derived from when a person checks “None of the Above” […]
Some Days Nothing Gets Done
This was one of those days when writing just did not get done. What I did do today was focus on graphics for the BoomHer site and the new This Month in BoomHer History feature I am putting together. And I also made a couple generic graphics for the day itself. Feel free […]