I often subscribe by email to comment threads on other blogs so that I don’t miss replies.
I just checked my email and found that a whole bunch of those emails got shunted to my junk folder at the same time that many others landed correctly in my inbox.
Weird.
I am really tired. I got up at 3:45 AM because I have a cold and started coughing.
And I am too tired now, forty-five minutes later, to write much of anything cogent.
I doubt I’m going to catch a nap later, so SoCS is going to be short and sweet.
Not quite as short and sweet as One-Liner Wednesday, but close.
Well, close on the short side. Not on the sweet.
Did I mention I am really tired?
Wishing everyone a good weekend. I hope that no one else has a cold or is tired…
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Linda’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week is “tire” – alone or as prefix or suffix. Join us! Find out how here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/02/12/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-1316/
In honor of my new email address for Top of JC’s Mind, I have updated my About page.
I wish I could say that I was also drafting exciting new posts and poems, but I am coming down with a cold and not trusting myself with anything that takes a lot of brainpower.
It finally dawned on me that I should have an email account for Top of JC’s Mind, so I just set up a gmail account.
The address is topofjcsmind@gmail.com.
Not very original, but it makes sense.
Now, I just have to remember to check it periodically!
I’m guessing that most people will prefer to leave comments as usual, but there is now a way to reach me that is not public, if you so choose.
Please don’t flood me with messages just to see how long it takes me to notice or respond! 😉
~ Joanne
On Monday, I posted about putting in my first poetry submissions of 2016 and promised that you would be among the first to know if I got an acceptance.
I am pleased to announce that Silver Birch Press has accepted my poem “Crowning Glory” as part of their upcoming “My Mane Memories” series.
Poet-friends, submissions are open through Feb. 29. The call for submissions is here. Unlike many publishers, Silver Birch Press accepts previously published work. Short prose (up to 300 words) is also part of the series.
I will post the link here at Top of JC’s Mind when my poem appears. You’ll also be treated to a new photo featuring my silver mane!
“I would love to live like a river flows….carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
~ John O’Donohue
Join us for Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday! Find out how here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/02/10/one-liner-wednesday-a-disco/
I managed to get my act together to do two poetry submissions today, my first of 2016. I have had a poem published this year, though, which you can find here.
I submitted my poem “Crowning Glory” to Silver Birch Press in response to their call for submissions for the “My Mane Memories” series. Silver Birch is looking for poetry and short prose pieces about your hair. It was a lot of fun to write! Submissions are open through the end of February, so there is time to participate if you like.
I also submitted four poems to The Tishman Review. I had submitted to them last year and received positive feedback, although not an acceptance. They encouraged me to submit again and I finally have. They read blind, though, so they won’t know that I have submitted again until they have decided whether or not to accept. I’m hoping to have chosen the best matches for their editorial preferences. Unlike most of the journals to which I choose to submit, Tishman has a fee to submit, $3 for 90 day response per set of 3-4 poems, or $6 for a two-week response. However, if they accept your work, you do get paid. I’m figuring that if I do ever get paid, I can consider myself a professional poet, instead of just a published one. 😉
So the wait is on. If I get an acceptance, you will be among the first to know!
As a blogger from the United States, I feel obligated to post on the Super Bowl yesterday.
Even though I am not a football fan or inclined to party over sporting events…
So, here are my impressions.
Why did the National Football League ignore its usual habit of counting the Super Bowl in Roman numerals? It should have been billed as Super Bowl L, not Super Bowl 50.
The one thing about the game I was looking forward to was Lady Gaga singing the National Anthem. She has a beautiful voice and did a really good job singing our not-easy-to-sing anthem. I appreciated that she had a piano so she had some grounding for pitch in the inhospitable environment of the football stadium.
After that, I would just have soon watched the news or something stashed on the DVR, but B decided to watch the first half and half-time show. I paid more attention to my email inbox than to the game, which seemed to be proceeding with quite a lot of fumbling and flags being thrown. I learned a couple of penalties that I didn’t know existed.
At 9:00, we got a break from the game to watch Downton Abbey. That was fun!
We switched back over to the game and watched to the end. So Peyton Manning and Denver, the more experienced team, beat the Carolina Panthers, making their second ever franchise appearance in a Super Bowl. That made sense.
One reason many people watch the Super Bowl is to see the advertisements, which are sometimes clever and innovative. I admit that there were not many that drew my attention this year. My hands-down favorite was Dame Helen Mirren telling the public in no uncertain terms how despicable it is to drive drunk.
That is the most important message that I hope people received from the game.
I posted last week about a new record for likes.
I am shocked to report that that record, 66 likes, was shattered yesterday, setting a new record of 103 likes!
And, in the odd record-keeping of WordPress, I had only 79 views…
I realize part of that is that I allow full posts by email and in the reader, so some likes come in that don’t register as views.
I had four posts yesterday.
The first was a re-blog of gorgeous flowers from My Food and Flowers. It attracted likes and some new followers from the photo-blog sector, including one who went on to explore and like a lot of posts. Thank you, v4vikey!
My planned post yesterday was about the ever-popular subject of exercise, featuring adventures with Wii Fit.
Then, there were two spur-of-the-moment posts on my re-vamping of my blog theme, one on the new header and one on the menu. Posts about blogging always seem to attract attention – among bloggers. Go figure!
Part of the success of the post-likes in a single day is the time of day when the posts appear. All four posts appeared in the morning in my time zone, so it gave more hours for my readers to find them the same day.
Thanks to all my readers and “likers” – especially those of my followers who visit on a regular basis. I really do appreciate your visits, comments, and likes here at Top of JC’s Mind!
Wishing you all a great weekend,
Joanne
Grandma has developed a trigger finger. It’s a cute name, but not a cute condition. Basically, the tendon rolls over the bones in the knuckle at the base of the finger down where the fingers meet the rest of the hand. This makes the finger bend down and catch so that it can only be straightened by taking the other hand and prying it out of the bent position.
And it hurts!
I brought her to see the orthopedic who had done a prior hand surgery for her – and who had done shoulder/arm surgeries on both my husband and me. He is the best person in our area to see for hand and arm things because he has done advanced fellowships.
He injected cortisone into the tendon sheath and, after a couple of days, the pain was gone. After a couple of more it would occasionally catch, but could be unbent without having to be pried open with the other hand.
In a few days, we have a follow-up with the doctor. I’m not sure what he will recommend. The original finger is still catching once in a while and now another finger is getting in on the act. He can do an in-office surgery, which may be necessary to have a permanent solution to the problem.
Trigger finger – not just a gangster term.
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Linda’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week is “finger.” Join us! Find out how here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/02/05/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-616/
