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The Unspectacular Me is the Monday Meme


This meme is dedicated to the revelation of the mundane. What about ourselves is ordinary and even boring in its typicalness?

Where do I begin?

1) I live in my yoga clothes. I always look as though I am heading off to a class or returning from one, depending on whether I have showered yet or not.

2) I eat breakfast every day.

3) I really like being a housewife. Rob recently pointed out that I live a Hollywood wife kind of existence. Upon closer examination, I realized he is right. My life is by and large self-indulgent now. Even the things that I do daily that are “work” aren’t really when compared to what my life was before or the reality of most women’s lives.

4) I am not a blonde. My hair is sort of brownish strawberry blond. Nothing that would catch the eye.

5) I am still washing dishes by hand and still not unhappy about it.

6) I can read a whole book again.*

 

Meme Terms and Conditions

1. Link to the person who tagged you. 
2. Mention the rules on your blog. 
3. List six unspectacular things about you.
4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them. (Consider yourself tagged– post on your blog, or comment here as it pleases you.)

 

*Reading is the first thing to go when you have been widowed. Don’t ask me why but it seems to be almost universally true – provided you could read in the first place.

A Blog Tour is the Monday Meme


Here is an interesting way to share I found during one of Julie’s Hump Day Hmmm’s at a blog called Carol’s Corner.

The idea was to create a blog post once a week with links back to new blog discoveries you’d like to share. I don’t propose once a week. Just today. And not six blogs but one or two (though I won’t stop you from sharing more.

So here are recent finds that have made their way onto my Bloglines:

Living Oprah – One woman’s year long adventures of living life according to Oprah

Nancy’s Blog – if you like science and science fiction

50 Somethings Moms Blog – more like “women or a certain age” and certainly not “all mommy”

A Novel Menagerie – a book review site

 

And here are a couple of oldies that I love:

Girl with Pen

Trailer Park Refugee 

Planet Books

Girl with Pen is my feminist inspiration because I just couldn’t make myself read any of the genre icons this summer. 

Daisyfae at the Trailer Park is who I want to be when I grow up.

And Karen’s book site is a treasure trove of reviews, author interviews and book give aways that is a must check out.

So now, what’s on your Goggle Reader?

A Request to Imagine is the Monday Meme


I was reading a review of a book written by a book critic on the art of writing.* The reviewer pulled a sentence from the book where the critic, James Woods, takes to task the idea that many writers apparently hold quite dear in that realistic fiction is too conventional. He says,

“Fiction does not ask us to believe things (in the philosophical sense) but to imagine them (in the artistic sense).”

I love that last part about asking the reader to imagine. Such a simple and yet daunting task.

There is so little imagination in day to day living.

How can we combat this? Comment or link back, s’il vous plait.

*That’s mainly what I do with highbrow “how to write” books. I read the reviews. When I buy them, they sit on the self. When I check them out of the library, I return them skimmed at best. Perhaps I need to pencil in a few weeks of reading about the art of writing? But I am booked through January with writing projects already.