These last few weeks have been crazy. Forgive my apparent loss of interest by suddenly falling off my schedule to post regularly. My partner and I have moved into a new house, I landed full time employment (impressive considering I’m 20 weeks pregnant) working with at risk teen boys, our internet is not even connected to the house yet, and we had quite a few financial issues all crowding my mental space. But rest assured, I will not quit this project. Delays should be expected, especially now that I will be working, but if anything my job will give me fuel to write more.
Quick update, baby is healthy. We had an ultrasound today to determine sex, which we are keeping on the DL because we want to avoid gender bias among our family and friends. No barbies or steroid infested GI Joes relatives! Let's not establish an unrealistic body image that quickly. At some point in your lives, I hope you all take the time to watch this video by Jackson Katz called "Tough Guise" about the cultural standard of being male and its connection to domestic violence, and low emotional maturity in men. Watch this video and then you will understand my caution.
In other news, You can now contact me with comments, ideas, etc. via email. Even if you just send a quick greeting, I will be tickled to know I got an email for the site. I need to find the motivation to research ways to increase my readership and make the site findable. So keep reading!
Loves.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Give a Little Bit
(Click to play song). Gotta love cheese.
Local florist Judy's Flowers & Gifts and radio stations are giving away 10,000 roses on Sept. 1st 2010 in spirit of Good Neighbor's Day. The idea is you pick up a bouquet (12 roses), keep one for yourself, and hand out the other eleven to friends, strangers, family, neighbors. Gifting a simple rose to a person might be the only good thing they receive that day.
I know of a few other towns and cities that would greatly benefit from such an event, but of course it happens here in the Rogue Valley where everyone already loves each other. Ew. Just vomited a little.
I plan on participating in this event. It is first come first serve, starting at 8am. I invite my friends to break the routine of that day and join this beautiful event.
The more I talk about this, the more nauseating it sounds. Obviously this is a targeted marketing campaign by the community. But if you're going to advertise, what a great way of going about it.
Just mark your calendar and do it.
This is the perfect scheme to disperse my newly developed neurotoxin. All of the valley will yield to my commands! Muahah!
Local florist Judy's Flowers & Gifts and radio stations are giving away 10,000 roses on Sept. 1st 2010 in spirit of Good Neighbor's Day. The idea is you pick up a bouquet (12 roses), keep one for yourself, and hand out the other eleven to friends, strangers, family, neighbors. Gifting a simple rose to a person might be the only good thing they receive that day.
I know of a few other towns and cities that would greatly benefit from such an event, but of course it happens here in the Rogue Valley where everyone already loves each other. Ew. Just vomited a little.
I plan on participating in this event. It is first come first serve, starting at 8am. I invite my friends to break the routine of that day and join this beautiful event.
The more I talk about this, the more nauseating it sounds. Obviously this is a targeted marketing campaign by the community. But if you're going to advertise, what a great way of going about it.
Just mark your calendar and do it.
This is the perfect scheme to disperse my newly developed neurotoxin. All of the valley will yield to my commands! Muahah!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Update
I just added the monetize feature on this blog. Waiting approval right now, but hopefully it doesn't create problems. Trial run for a few days. Let me know if there are any annoyances. Be aware that I can't customize specific ads displayed yet, but soon I will.
Thank you to all who have read a little here and there. I enjoy just seeing reaction votes. It is also interesting to see which stories readers enjoy. Not what I expected. For instance, the Building a Mystery post was originally meant as a prologue. I am keeping in mind that at least friends are curious about personal details, that not all the stories need to be generic.
Loves!
Thank you to all who have read a little here and there. I enjoy just seeing reaction votes. It is also interesting to see which stories readers enjoy. Not what I expected. For instance, the Building a Mystery post was originally meant as a prologue. I am keeping in mind that at least friends are curious about personal details, that not all the stories need to be generic.
Loves!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Welcome to my playground!
This first entry will serve as a starting point for new readers.
I will be slowly publishing a two year compilation of short stories aimed at conveying the various ways in which that Voice can manifest, in a similar fashion as Neil Gaiman did with his Sandman Series. Originally, I planned on organizing my material into a book, but I’ve discovered this idea to be so inspiring and uplifting for me and those few I’ve described it to, that I chose to organize it on this site. This will provide the opportunity to share and explore this idea with readers and friends in ways I could not hope to until the book was published. And since publishing can be a drag (*cough* scam), I figured this would be a more meaningful way of conducting my reeesearch. My mission for this site is to experiment with the ideas I have so far, edit my stories, remain disciplined enough to work a little each day, explore related cultural examples and personal interpretations from readers, in order to have a near complete book by the time my baby is born (due: Feb, 5th 2011). Perhaps I will have a series underway by the time 2012 hits and my baby is almost two.
Here is a general description of the idea:
That Voice refers to the various manifestations created by our adaptive minds to fulfill basic human needs, primarily companionship (or more accurately, a voice besides one’s own). Follow as I explore my relationship with a psychological manifestation in an effort to understand the purposes he serves and how the that Voice idea might unify such disciplines as theology, psychology, cosmology, and anthropology.
Note: I realize the Related and Sponsored Links seem random. For now, they are simply potential sources for inspiration regarding this project. Some will be links of friends that I have agreed to sponsor in order to generate traffic.
I will be slowly publishing a two year compilation of short stories aimed at conveying the various ways in which that Voice can manifest, in a similar fashion as Neil Gaiman did with his Sandman Series. Originally, I planned on organizing my material into a book, but I’ve discovered this idea to be so inspiring and uplifting for me and those few I’ve described it to, that I chose to organize it on this site. This will provide the opportunity to share and explore this idea with readers and friends in ways I could not hope to until the book was published. And since publishing can be a drag (*cough* scam), I figured this would be a more meaningful way of conducting my reeesearch. My mission for this site is to experiment with the ideas I have so far, edit my stories, remain disciplined enough to work a little each day, explore related cultural examples and personal interpretations from readers, in order to have a near complete book by the time my baby is born (due: Feb, 5th 2011). Perhaps I will have a series underway by the time 2012 hits and my baby is almost two.
Here is a general description of the idea:
That Voice refers to the various manifestations created by our adaptive minds to fulfill basic human needs, primarily companionship (or more accurately, a voice besides one’s own). Follow as I explore my relationship with a psychological manifestation in an effort to understand the purposes he serves and how the that Voice idea might unify such disciplines as theology, psychology, cosmology, and anthropology.
Note: I realize the Related and Sponsored Links seem random. For now, they are simply potential sources for inspiration regarding this project. Some will be links of friends that I have agreed to sponsor in order to generate traffic.
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