Blogging Reigns Me In Until I Feel Like Bursting

 

Blogging has an “anything goes” reputation. Bloggers are known to go off on extreme tangents and tell you exactly what they think. Sometimes anonymous, sometimes angry, blogging has traditionally been known as ranting.

For me, blogging is the opposite. Sometimes around elections I feel like I’m going to burst.

Through the years, I’ve never been one to tell people how to vote. Often people ask me, even on Election Day, when they show up at the poles and [...]

August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: All My Writing | One comment

The Men Were Surprised We Were Women

This summer a small group of Cub Scouts from my Pack went away to sleepover camp. Four moms joined me as adult leaders. It never occurred to me that a group of women would be noticed, never mind create a stir.

One night we had to prepare our own fire then make “foil dinners”. You take meat and vegetables and wrap them in foil then throw them in coals from a fire. We had apples with [...]

August 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: All My Writing | One comment