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 [...]
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Aug, 2017
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Jan, 2017
How I Feel About Blogging
"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 [...]
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Dec, 2016
Artful Blogging Giveaway
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.) [...]
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Sep, 2016
August Was…
{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, [...]
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Aug, 2016
5 Years Ago
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 [...]
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Feb, 2015
My First Newsletter
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 [...]
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Jan, 2015
Four Years of Blogging
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 [...]
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Dec, 2014
12/12/14 – Time Capsule
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 [...]
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Sep, 2014
Blog Post No. 500
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! [...]
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Jun, 2014
My Writing Process – A Blog Hop
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 [...]
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Feb, 2014
Reflections on Three Years of Blogging
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 [...]
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Dec, 2013
12/12/13 – A Busy Day
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 [...]
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Oct, 2013
To All My Dear Commenters
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, [...]
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Aug, 2013
August Break Wasn’t for Me
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 [...]
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Jul, 2013
August Break
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 [...]
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Jul, 2013
How I Found a Most Meaningful Book
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 [...]
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Jul, 2013
My Blogathon 2013 Experience
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, [...]
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Jun, 2013
Blogathon 2013 World Cloud
Today is word cloud day at the Blogathon; this one captures my most frequently used words on this blog over the past month.
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Jun, 2013
Meeting a Blog Reader in Person
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 [...]
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Jun, 2013
How a Master Commenter Does It
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 [...]
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Jun, 2013
A Lamp Facade
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 [...]
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May, 2013
Blogathon 2013
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 [...]
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May, 2013
Banner Update
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 [...]
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Feb, 2013
A Blog Thank You
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 [...]
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Feb, 2013
Reflections on Two Years of Blogging
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 [...]
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Dec, 2012
12/12/12 – A Quiet Day
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 [...]
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Dec, 2012
A New Blog Banner
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 [...]
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Jun, 2012
Blogathon 2012
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 [...]
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May, 2012
A Big Thank You to all my Commenters
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 [...]
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May, 2012
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May, 2012
“If I started blogging today I would….”
"...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 [...]
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May, 2012
A Finite Number of Words
"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 [...]
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Apr, 2012
Blogathon Coming Up!
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 [...]
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Apr, 2012
Returning Home to Myself
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 [...]
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Feb, 2012
Reflections on a Year of Blogging
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 [...]
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Aug, 2011
Blog Mash Up: Spreading a Little Blogging Warmth
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 [...]
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