I have three things that warrant honorable mention. First, a shout-out to Christy to thank her for my lovely gift of hand-made stitch holders (click here for Christy’s pic): They are beautiful (and in the colors of Mardi Gras!) and are the inspiration I needed to dive into my next knitting project. Thanks, again, Christy. [...]
Yesterday, I drove out to get satsumas for Christy over at Misplaced Southern Belle. I ended up at DeWitt’s Fruit and Vegetable Shed on River Road (this stand has been at this location for over 50 years). I have driven past it many, many times and never stopped. So, thanks, Christy, for giving me an [...]
It’s hard to believe I have been sharing pieces of my life through blogging with the unknowns of the Internet for just over a year now. I think I am starting to find my voice. Here’s a short list of things I’ve gotten from blogging: 1. New NOLA friends, Katie, Leigh, and Stacey that I [...]
When I started blogging just over a year ago, I had little expectations of what it’d give me. I began for one purpose: to exercise my writing muscle. From that perspective, I have met my goal. But something happened along the way. I found that I began to look at the things that I do [...]
Here are the answers to yesterday’s truths and lies: 1. I cannot drive stick. This is TRUE. Years ago, several friends tried to teach me and a few telephone poles came close to getting hit. I am happy to drive standard. 2. I will not ski or snowboard or skydive. It is TRUE that I [...]
Katie and Greta recently tagged me for two different memes. Neither meme really blew my skirt up. So instead I will follow something Katie recently did on her blog (and it is similar in what Greta’s meme asked). I’m going to list 6 things—4 of them will be true, 2 will be false. I ask [...]
I love the semicolon; it’s my all-time favorite punctuation mark. My love for it stems from the first author to whom I ever really found myself truly devoted, John Irving. In “The World According to Garp,” Irving sings the praises of “the good ole semicolon,” and my love for the semicolon was cinched from my first [...]
I was tagged to do a Seven Random Facts About Me meme by Brandy at My Fertility Stories. Here goes: 1. I am left-handed. And this is a right-handed world. From scissors to school desks, from serrated knives to diaper bags (yes, diaper bags–many, if you look close, are designed to be worn on your [...]
If you have been reading me for some time, you may remember when Pete switched my blog software to Word Press. At that time, he set it up such that my website went from simply www.nolanotes.com to www.nolanotes.com/wordpress. Being the anal retentive person that I am, that “slash wordpress” has annoyed me ever since. Today, [...]
Katie over at Overflowing Brain challenged her readers to do better than her on an Eighth Grade Science test. I failed said test The site she linked to, however, has all manner of fun quizzes. Quizzes to test whether you’d survive a zombie apocalypse (36%), how much your dead body would be worth for its [...]