Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 26 – Having fun blogging with friends

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Sunday Post: Perspective: Best Luau Ever

Thank you Jake for this challenge to help me share my perspective of our luau experiences. To learn how to enter your own posts about perspectives, visit Jake’s Sunday Post. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bravo Lake

I have to admit that I’m mad about Bravo Lake. It takes up about 1/4 of the area labeled on a map as Woodlake, and you can’t stand on a […]

Speaking of Bird Eggs

Today I am my own guest bloggers. I got the idea from Cathy, better known as ShareChair, who reposted some of her earliest posts. I posted this one year ago, one […]

A Word A Week Challenge: Angle

I was inspired by a new blogger friend, Bambang (Bams) Triwoko, to create a post for this Word a Week Challenge: Angle. I don’t know whether I can put a […]

Branding

In my neck of the woods, cattle get branded, but I’ve been DOING Twitter, and reading about branding. Apparently, if I want to my blog to take off and really […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background

Michael Pick would like me to do something different in the background – me, not the scenery. No wonder they call it a challenge. People/objects we know and love, or […]

Book Reviews: Susan Hunter Mysteries

I love a good mystery, and these Eastern/Midwestern setting, Susan Hunter mysteries are all fun and “easy breezy” reading. I’m writing one post about several of these books for several […]

Personal Stories

Investing Before and During Retirement

Today I thought I would write about investing for retirement. I didn’t invest by doing anything difficult or brilliant, but I am pleased with my outcome at this point. When […]

Photo Challenges

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it […]

Alfred Hitchcock In SF

As I begin to compose this post, I am listening to the stories about the tornadoes in Oklahoma, and I’m so sorry for those of you who are dealing with […]

Personal Stories

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my […]

Like, Free Speech?

I don’t usually write about news or controversial articles on my blog, but I can’t resist this one. I just read an online article “Is Liking Something On Facebook An […]

Book Review: Soul’s Child

Soul’s Child, the 2012 award-winning spell binder by Dianne Gray, unearthed and explored a love/hate relationship between co-dependent father and daughter after the accident in which Aurora Jones’ mother and […]

San Francisco Walking Tour

Sixty-seven percent of you wanted to read more about the walking tours we took. (that’s about 4 of you!) Walking tours in San Francisco are free, ours were both well […]

Norton I, Emperor of the United States…

Joshua Abraham Norton came from England to the United States, and like thousands of others rushed to California to enlarge his already hefty fortune of $40,000. After amassing up to […]

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

As Sarah Rosso says, “Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental. They can be decorative or merely a result of repetition, and often patterns can be in the […]

The Eyes Have It

Who’s eyes are these anyway? If you know, you are a better authority on who’s who in San Francisco than I am. I’ll post a little more of his face, […]

Happy Mother’s Day

Today would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Every so often her birthday fell on Mother’s Day, and this is one of them. She lived to be the ripe old […]

Well Maintained

On one of my first dates with my husband Vince, he thought he was complimenting me when he told me that I was “sure well-maintained for my age,” (barely 43 […]

My First Yoga Class

This weekend after my meeting in Los Angeles, and my dentist’s appointment in Brentwood, I spent a couple of days with my friend, Elane Geller. Elane is amazing. At age […]

The Paso Place to Go

A few weeks ago we had lunch with our friends Spencer and Margaret in Paso Robles, CA. Paso has the best of both worlds. You have just exited the most […]

Chocolate Lovers Rejoice

Here is a nice reflection on the sweetness of life. Mary and I had to make difficult choices at Reimer’s Candy Shop in Three Rivers, CA. This is a favorite […]

A Book Review: Wolf Pear

You all know that I’m a Dianne Gray fan, and I just finished reading her 2010 novel Wolf Pear. The reader has no idea whether or not the two main […]

See the Very First Website i.e. the Entire Internet, as it was in 1992

Originally posted on sharechair:
photo credit: wikipedia It seems this is a week for anniversaries! A few days ago it…

J.G. Burdette Scares Spammers Silly

My regular readers know what a hard time I had with spam when I first started. No, not the typical barrage of spam you get from other people – I […]

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

Even in 1855 few humans had choose between living in an enchanted forest with fairies or living with humans, between dwelling in a forested utopia or in a nation about […]

Good Morning World

I do love blogging, and I try to post consistently so that my blogging friends will know I’m alive and keep coming to see me. I recently read a recommended […]

Bellavista

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would […]

Walking on Ice

I haven’t been reblogging as much as I used to, but this is amazing. Have YOU ever been inside a glacier ice cave? Do you think you ever will be?

Wildflower Photography Class

I’ve been shopping at Mike’s Quality Camera for several years, since I got my digital camera at Costco, and the original lens quit working correctly (after the warranty expired). Unfortunately […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I enjoy the WordPress challenges. This one, UP, was particularly fun. Up is ubiquitous. As I looked up my photos, “up” took on one meaning after another. Some of my […]

Photo Challenges

Where to Find Color for a Photo Challenge Like an Expert

Weekly Photo Challenge: Color Woodlake Botanical Gardens At the Kiwanis […]

Wordless Wednesday: Purity

I’ve Been Tagged

Before I start, I want to speak my condolences to those in Boston, and my prayers are with you. As I was digging into Ute‘s blog today I found out […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

I started quilting many years ago, then took about a 35 year break. Over the years the quilting hobby changed drastically. This year I noticed that quilters incorporate much more bling […]

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