Category: blogging

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Getting away

This post is part of SoCS: http://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-july-1214/  This week’s prompt is “getting away or getting out.”

It’s important to get away. The schedule/responsibilities/routines/demands get to be too much after a while. Without a break, it is hard to keep going effectively.

My favorite getaways are with my husband, heading out somewhere scenic with places to stroll, fun shops to browse in, cultural sites like historic homes or museums, a bed and breakfast or small inn to stay in, and the hardest decision of the day being which great restaurant to choose for dinner. Somewhere like Skaneateles in the Finger Lakes or Lenox in the Berkshires.

When we come home from a getaway, it is back to reality and the usual stuff, but it’s easier to think clearly after the break.

Maybe we should get away more often…

My thought for the day

I appreciated this post on the excitement of being a new blogger and poet. Not my exact story, of course, but certainly struck a chord with me. Many thanks to The Confidant for this post.

One-Liner Wednesday – Nelson Mandela quote

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
– Nelson Mandela

For Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday – http://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/one-liner-wednesday-in-the-end/
( I know this is technically not a one-liner, but I didn’t want to alter the original quote by using a semicolon instead of a period and I felt the second sentence needed the context of the first.)

 

checking stats at 3:30 AM

Because I was up and posting, I checked my stats and found out that the only person to visit my blog so far today was in Australia and reached this post because they searched for “raining on volcano.”

This is slightly mind-boggling to me. Someone on the other hemisphere from me – times two – visited my blog due to the power of a search engine.

I don’t know if s/he read my post. They may have been looking for science, rather than travelogue/musings. Just the concept of global connection is enough to make me ponder.

Little me and mystery person half a world away brought together for at least a moment.

*****

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Blog promotion thread open on HarsH ReaLiTy

http://aopinionatedman.com/2014/07/02/wordpress-meet-and-greet-3-all-bloggers-welcome/

OM has opened his thread for bloggers to post info about their blogs or other projects. Post something yourself and check out what others are doing!

JC

One hundred!

Yay! I have published one hundred posts! Well, a few of them are re-blogs and some people publish a hundred posts in the space of a couple of weeks, but one hundred is a milestone for me, even though it took me ten months.

Facebook Page

For anyone who is on Facebook, I’m issuing an invitation to like the Top of JC’s Mind facebook page. The address www.facebook.com/topofjcsmind should work.

Life has been very hectic lately, but I hope to get some posts out next week – the good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

Guest Bloggers – Blog for HarsH ReaLiTy?

Wish I could swing putting in for this right now, but life is intervening. I did want to help spread the word, though.

HarsH ReaLiTy Challenge – Got an Opinion?

One of the blogs I follow has issued this opportunity for reblogging opinion posts. Read his post and see if you want to take up the challenge.
JC

WordPress Meet and Greet #3 – All Bloggers Welcome

OM is hosting another opportunity for bloggers, authors, photographers, etc. to post their links and a blurb to go with it in the comments of this thread. Check it out! You may find some new blogs to follow and get some new reads or follows for your own work.