For those who celebrate or commemorate it, I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day. Today many of us in the WordCount Blogathon are posting a Wordle, a word cloud design of popular words used on your blog or website. I got a kick out of the fact tha two of my largest (and, I’m guessing, most used) words [...]
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Blogathon Wordle Day
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged 2012 WordCount Blogathon, wordle on May 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
If I started blogging today…(Blogathon Theme Day #2)
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Writing, tagged blogging advice, wordcount blogathon on May 23, 2012 | 6 Comments »
The Blogathon’s second theme day asks us to reflect on what we’ve learned as bloggers. If we were to start blogging today, what would we do differently? There is one thing above all others that I would change: I would pull a Lindsey Buckingham and go my own way. There is a lot of blogging advice [...]
Summer Berries for Haiku Monday
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged haikus, wordcount blogathon on May 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s Haiku Monday, a WordCount Blogathon tradition. In the past, I’ve written about chocolate and kitchen mishaps. This year I was inspired by summer berries. Juicy, tangy, bright In coffee cakes, scones, crisps, jams Sweet summer berries. If you’re so moved, please share your own haiku below. I’d love to read them.
Beach season begins
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, tagged candy kitchen, cruisin' event, maryland, ocean city on May 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I’m down the Maryland shore for the Cruisin’ Ocean City event, a 4-day car show where the the streets are loud and packed with the low, dull roar of gunning cars. We actually didn’t come for the car show, but the old cars are parked everywhere and many of their drivers are constantly cruising down [...]
How to make an herb planter box
Posted in Design and DIY, Fun Food Bites, tagged basil, chives, making an herb planter box, planting herbs, rosemary, thyme on May 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »
WordCount Blogathoners write about their “second acts”
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Writing, tagged career change, life transitions, secondact, wordcount blogathon on May 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Last week Michelle Rafter, founder of the WordCount Blogathon and a writer for the website SecondAct, which is geared towards those over 40, asked Blogathoners to write about their “second acts”: risks they’ve taken, changes they’ve made, or revelations that have come to them in the second half of their lives. To me there is nothing [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged rose bush on May 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
To all the moms out there, including my lovely mom, I hope you have a wonderful day!
5 blogs to explore from 2012 Blogathon participants
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged bike with jackie, gadget girl tips, jennifer willis writer, mridu khullar relph writer, outlaw garden on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This year more than 250 people are participating in the 2012 WordCount Blogathon. That’s more than 7,750 blog posts that will be written by the Blogathon group this month alone. I’ve only briefly skimmed through the list of bloggers, but here are a few new-to-me blogs that caught my eye so far. None of them [...]
Big Summer Potluck and What’s Next for MMC?
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged big summer potluck, gluten free girl, the ivory hut, three many cooks, wordsxo on August 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I didn’t plan to stop blogging for an entire month. It just worked out that way. I could tell you that it’s because I was busy with my move or my summer class or my thesis. Or that my new place has a very old stove with two ovens that are covered in splattered grease [...]
Eating Adventurously on a Budget on Culinate
Posted in Fun Food Bites, tagged budget cooking, budget recipes, culinate on July 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday Culinate – an online magazine that “helps people put food at the center of their lives” – published my story on eating adventurously on a budget. Head on over to Culinate to read the full story.
