Month: June 2013

Relaxing: …. In Photoshop?

How could Photoshop be relaxing? Well, for one thing it’s not 110 in my house! That’s helpful because it is about that outside. I walked and swam this morning, but […]

Travel

Sordid Friday Tales: Catherine II, the Great

One of my friends, a world history teacher, told me that he adored Catherine II, the Great. I wondered if there was more to her than the sordid rumors I […]

Hobbies

Manny Goes to Spain – An Interview with Manny

Many of our readers know Manny as my lovable little […]

Personal Stories

Weekly Photo Challenge – The world through your eyes

For the most part I see things through rose-colored glasses, […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Holding Up the Earth by Dianne E. Gray

Hope, aged 14, became an orphan at age six when […]

Travel

Ask Marsha Lee: WP Reader V Inoreader

If you have a WordPress website, then the WordPress reader allows you to skim through hundreds of websites quickly and press “Like” and move on. The people on the receiving […]

Personal Stories

Relaxing – Organizing and Cleaning the Junk Room

Everyone has a little clutter. Today is cleaning day. Working […]

Travel

Sordid Past – Mine Again

Sordid is a dirty word involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt. I think I may have mentioned burning down my mom’s house in one of my […]

Hobbies

Manny and Marsha at the Botanical Gardens in Kauai, HI

The air dripped that day, but not with rain. The […]

Photo Challenges

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

I had curves growing up, my knees and my elbows! Most everything else about me is straight. EXCEPT that I have astigmatisms in both eyes, and I can’t draw straight […]

Travel

Mondays – Ask Marsha Lee: Blogging Challenges

Do you ever get the blogging blues? I had them […]

Personal Stories

Weekend Relaxing #2 Gardening

I have decided that picking most fruits and vegetables is best done by children who love to play games. I think that fruits and vegetables get their jollies by playing […]

Travel

Weekend Relaxing – Blogging?

I searched all my posts for something on relaxing, and came up with 9 posts out of almost 400. So much for reposting something! Vince is relaxing today playing poker, […]

Travel

Sordid Pasts: Marsha & Randy

I don’t have enough pictures scanned yet, so this one is bringing up all the memories of our earliest years in Portland, Oregon. There is no date on this picture, […]

Travel

Blogging Schedule

I want to thank you for responding to my last poll. Y’all blew me away with an astounding 98 responses. That’s up from ZERO on my first poll. Your opinions about […]

Travel

Book Review: The Worst Hard Time…

Before I start my book review, which I promised you last week, I want to thank you for responding to my poll yesterday. I will be establishing a posting schedule […]

Travel

Getting More Traffic On Your Blog

My husband, Vince, asked, “Why are you interested in more people visiting your website, anyway? Don’t you have enough? Do you want everybody to love you? That’s a thought-provoking conversation […]

Hobbies

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

SC got me started on this quest in a fleeting moment when I was thinking of writing something else entirely, but I do love WP Challenges. Some ideas to get […]

Hobbies

Travel Theme: Costumes

Am I too late to post a quick post about costumes? Alisa’s travel theme for last week fits a good many pictures I have. In my collection I have pictures of […]

Hobbies

Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

We spent only a week in Kauai, HI, but I have way more than a week’s worth of posts – even though they are not written yet. I’ll post this […]

Travel

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

Sara Rosso has invited us to write and photograph signs in this Weekly Photo Challenge. While we were in Kauai, Hi, we noticed, not signs, but a dearth of signs. […]

Hobbies

Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

We, V, C, M and I, just got back from a wonderful vacation in Kauai, HI. Manny’s favorite place in all of Kauai was a famous restaurant in the little […]

Travel

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

Extreme bad times give birth to silver linings. Disasters and tragedy can bring out the best in people. Right now we think of those in Oklahoma who are suffering with […]

Marsha Ingrao – Always Write

Having fun blogging with friends

Month: June 2013

Relaxing: …. In Photoshop?

Sordid Friday Tales: Catherine II, the Great

Manny Goes to Spain – An Interview with Manny

Weekly Photo Challenge – The world through your eyes

Book Review: Holding Up the Earth by Dianne E. Gray

Ask Marsha Lee: WP Reader V Inoreader

Relaxing – Organizing and Cleaning the Junk Room

Sordid Past – Mine Again

Manny and Marsha at the Botanical Gardens in Kauai, HI

Challenge Me: Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Mondays – Ask Marsha Lee: Blogging Challenges

Weekend Relaxing #2 Gardening

Weekend Relaxing – Blogging?

Sordid Pasts: Marsha & Randy

Blogging Schedule

Book Review: The Worst Hard Time…

Getting More Traffic On Your Blog

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Travel Theme: Costumes

Monk Seal at Poipu Beach

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

Manny Goes to Grove Cafe in Kauai, HI

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings