4th of July and a Moving Milestone
Happy Fourth of July! Despite appearances, I have not in fact declared my independence from blogging. I am still madly scribbling down The Seven-Year-Old’s questions for…
The Six-Year-Old discovers the thrill of NaNoWriMo
Love it or hate it, every year National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) inspires hundreds of thousands of writers around the world to spend November in an…
Wordless Wednesday: Lost in a good book
This is supposed to be a wordless day, so I’ll keep it short. Things have been quiet here lately because I’ve been distracted from blogging. Ironic,…
In which I begin to explain the recent Great Silence
Long-time readers know that it is not my practice to burden either of us with a long post on Saturdays, but since I haven’t posted since…
Weekly Hodge-Podge of Moderately Useful &/or Interesting Things
How to make your own watermark for photos, papal resignation trivia, and other news of the week.
My view today
Our third snowstorm in three weeks didn’t drop quite enough snow to make snow cream, but I’ll happily settle for lacy trees and a day off…
Let me explain what you are going to see on Caterpickles this week
The recent events in Newtown are crushingly sad. So sad that I didn’t think about Caterpickles after I heard about it, and you will have seen…
And the winner is…
Recently someone stole some of my blog posts and tried to pass them off as their own. Loyal reader and good friend, David Bowles, helped me fend off the unscrupulous masses.For actions above and beyond what I had any right to expect, I’m pleased to offer David the 2011 Caterpickles Defender of the Realm award. David, I’m glad you’re in my corner. Thank you.
In which I become an Award-Winning Blogger
Last week, I got a piece of very exciting news from a wonderful writer, K.L. Branson over at Kate’s Bookshelf. I read Kate’s blog whenever I’m in need of some inspiration, a good book to read, an occasional dose of poetry, or a quick dose of flash fiction. This week I was honored to discover that Kate likes my blog too, enough to give me the 7×7 Link Award.
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