I Always Wanted To…
...visit the Montfort Castle in northern Israel. As my contribution to the Field Guide to Everyday Magic Blog Hop, I'm sharing how I finally did so because I have found [...]
...visit the Montfort Castle in northern Israel. As my contribution to the Field Guide to Everyday Magic Blog Hop, I'm sharing how I finally did so because I have found [...]
Masarykova, Liberec, Czech Republic Finally, finally, it's up and running and all the behind-the-scenes Google stuff is working as well (that had been my stress point these past [...]
"How do you feel about blogging?" Barbara Bos asked yesterday in the Facebook group Women Writers, Women's Books that I belong to. That got me thinking. Then it occurred to me that [...]
Today is St. Nikolaus, a day I remember fondly from my childhood (see my essay Giving Up Christmas in Tablet, which, incidentally, is an excerpt from my book Jumping Over Shadows.) [...]
{August Break 8/31: August was...} ...long! And not as peaceful as this photo, taken from the Rogers Park beach pier on the northside of Chicago. But there were peaceful moments, [...]
Canyonlands National Park, Utah {August Break 8/18: 5 Years Ago} Five years ago I was taking a road trip with my family: five weeks, Chicago to California and back. It [...]
I need to revitalize my blog; I need to get back into blogging! I miss it! So, even though I've said before that prescriptive blogathons are not for me, I [...]
As a contributor to Bella Grace Magazine, I was invited to participate in the blog hop celebrating the launch of Grace Notes, their blog complementing this utterly gorgeous magazine. My [...]
If you've been using Google Friend Connect to follow my blog, please note that it is currently being phased out by Google, in particular the ability to use it with [...]
I've been quiet on this blog not because I've been sitting quietly by the pond but because I have been immersed in rewriting my memoir manuscript based on editorial feedback. [...]
I have been absent from this blog, which also means I have been absent from myself. Funny how over these past four years, blogging has become a barometer of how [...]
I just clicked the Send button for my very first newsletter, and I have to say it is like skating out on a pond, not quite knowing if the ice [...]
My four year blogging anniversary came and went, and I didn't even notice until I was looking for something else in my Morning Pages book from a year ago and [...]
I am keeping with my tradition of creating a time capsule of the 12th of December, begun as a project on 12/12/12. One day, way in the future, it might [...]
My post with a detailed recipe (including step-by-step photos) on how to make Zwetschgendatschi remains one of my most popular posts. Who would have thought? Not me. 500 blog posts! [...]
I've loved Stampington Company's magazine Artful Blogging ever since I discovered it on a bookstore browse in Denver three years ago, and now they have come out with another stunning magazine: Bella Grace. [...]
Writing on the couch I've been tagged by my friend Gillian Marchenko, a former student of mine and author of the memoir Sun Shine Down, to participate in the #MyWritingProcess [...]
Library at Alcatraz I started this blog more than three years ago, and since I reflected on two years of blogging last year, it's high time to share my insights from three [...]
My weekdays begin with coffee and Morning Pages; in the background are the iced-over windows of winter. I decided to make another time capsule of December 12, based on last [...]
Dear Commenters, This morning I had over 50 spam comment notifications from "Anonymous" in my email inbox, and that is simply too much. I don't know why sites in Russia, [...]
I jumped into August Break without thinking twice, but agonized for weeks over whether I would have the stamina in June to do the Blogathon. Turns out I had no problem [...]
I've decided to participate in August Break, hosted by Susannah Conway (see my take on her book This I Know). After 30 days of straight blogging for the Blogathon in [...]
Sometimes it is interesting to retrace where something began, when a meaningful connection was made. My interview with Susannah Conway appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books last week, and [...]
First of all: I did it! I posted to this blog every day for the month of June and completed the Blogathon challenge. Looking back, I shouldn't have doubted myself, [...]
Today is word cloud day at the Blogathon; this one captures my most frequently used words on this blog over the past month.
Allison and I after her reading last night - photo taken by Dinty W. Moore. "So, you're Annette Gendler!" a bubbly voice says right behind me as I'm leaving the [...]
Today is guest blogger day at the Blogathon, and I am happy to be hosting William Kendall. Regular readers will recognize him as this blog's most steadfast commenter. His dedication to [...]
Continuing yesterday's lamp theme - here's a facade in the former French Connection area of Shanghai that I thought was really cool. And above it, the ever hazy grey sky [...]
After sitting on the fence until the last day to sign up, I have decided to join the Blogathon again this year, mainly because it is plain fun. The Blogathon is [...]
It's time to switch out that blog banner again! I've discovered I am pretty consistent about doing this every six months; my last update was December 7. So here's what's [...]
Article in the French Jewish magazine Tenou'a featuring the same art work by Michael Thompson I featured last May. Coming on the heels of my damp review of hosting guest [...]
Shaker Village Bonnet - as featured on shuttersisters I've been blogging for two years now, and since I reflected on my first year of blogging a year ago, it's time [...]
Inspired by Xanthe Berkeley's challenge on Shuttersisters to create a time capsule of 12/12/12, I decided to capture this ordinary day so that sometime in the future, maybe 20 years from [...]
About every six months, I get the urge to change my blog banner. I grow tired of the old one, and I feel it doesn't represent me anymore. Thanks to [...]
Need I say more? Yet again it was fun to participate in the Blogathon, and while I'll miss it, I also have to admit I'm a little tired of posting [...]
Thank you notes by Man vs. George Design I'm under a writing deadline today, so first I was going to post a poem, but then I saw in my summary [...]
"...customize my blog's design right away." Completing this sentence is today's Blogathon topic, asking participants to reflect on what we would do differently if we were starting out blogging, given [...]
"I'm convinced that there are only so many words per day in the human body: If you do some longish emails and a few tweets, you feel done." Anna Quindlen [...]
Just a little warning that my dribble of posts this past month is about to turn into more of a flood as I will be participating in the Blogathon, hosted [...]
One open door leads to the rabbit hole, and then what is to be discovered? I often think of my forays into all the connections of the blogging world as [...]
Nevada Road - see corresponding photo essay on wild horses What a ride it has been! I started this blog in January last year because I wanted to have a [...]
I received a Liebster award yesterday, thanks to my blogging and real-life writing friend Nancy, and I've been following the thread to find out where it came from and why [...]