Scribblings of an inquisitive mind. I'm either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist. I can never decide.
Progressive/metal/rock band
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)10 Jun 2010 at 3:14 pm
Sometimes, when I want to access my blog and I'm on a computer that doesn't have it bookmarked, I'll just do a Google search.
The other day, I Googled pomegranate tiger and found another Pomegranate Tiger:
Pomegranate Tiger, a progressive/metal/rock band
It made me laugh because I wondered how many of their fans go Googling for them and end up at my blog?
I'm also wondering how they came up ... read more
Fair
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)10 Jun 2010 at 12:55 pm
I'm lazy,so I'm posting something I've done elsewhere. The following is a piece I wrote for an online forum group that was given the prompt, "Fair? You want fair?" It started out as a dialogue between characters having an argument about the fairness of life, but it sounded so full of cliches that I scrapped it. Then I read a piece by Margaret Atwood that got me thinking of trying it as an asser ... read more
Blogger is currently unavailable
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)8 Jun 2010 at 8:15 pm
After more than seven months away from blogging, I decided to post something yesterday (Monday) and was greeted by the above, followed by:
Blogger is unavailable right now. We apologize for this interruption in service.
I ruefully mentioned the irony of this on a forum I frequent and an online friend noted how Catch-22 it sounded. It was a rather Zen-like experience. I mean, the blogger me had bee ... read more
Microfiction Monday
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)8 Jun 2010 at 7:27 pm
I've found a new-to-me site for playing with words. Susan from Stony River says:
Welcome to Microfiction Monday,
where a picture paints 140 characters, or even fewer.
For Microfiction Monday #34
"What's the matter?"
"You always go first."
"No, I don't."
"Yes, you do. You’re doing it now."
"Then you go first."
"No."
"Why not?"
"I don’t know the way."
... read more
(no title)
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)28 Oct 2009 at 12:36 pm
Last night, Lydia dreamed she was a robot. Not a mechanical, metallic, C3PO robot, but a sentient, humanoid robot that thought she was human. She, along with others of her kind had been rejected by society and their human families. They were being switched off. The robot Lydia made a tearful and eloquent plea about love and yearning to the blank stares of human faces . . .
Lydia hadn't writte ... read more
Yippee, Gray Is In!
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)19 Jul 2009 at 6:52 pm
While doing my Sunday surfing, I found a link to an article titled, Do Blondes Have More Fun? The answer, much to my delight, was, "No. Silvers do!"
As some of you may remember from my post a couple of years ago on Time Goes By (The (Not So) Greying of America), it's one of my missions in life to liberate women from the scourge of colouring their hair just to cover up those inevitable pesky gray a ... read more
S is for
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)14 Jul 2009 at 11:40 am
"Stubborn."
He: Who's stubborn?
She: You are.
He: No, I'm not!
She: Yes, you are.
He: You're just as stubborn as I am.
She: I admit I don't give up easily. I have to solve things. I'd say that's being determined.
He: You always have to be right.
She: Not always. Besides, I'll change my mind if you give me an intelligent and logical reason. You don't even want to discuss things.
He: That's not true. ... read more
Serendipity or luck?
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)30 Jun 2009 at 4:29 pm
As you might expect - because of my self-imposed walkabout – my visitor stats have steadily declined and plateaued out. This morning, I saw the weekly Sitemeter report that's been sitting in my inbox since Sunday and, for no particular reason, clicked on through to the live (current) stats. I was shocked. I had more than double the number of visitors in one day than I'd had for an entire week ... read more
Gone Walkabout
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)16 Jun 2009 at 10:29 pm
The term Walkabout comes from the Australian Aboriginal. The idea is that a person can get so caught up in one's work, obligations and duties that the truly important parts of one's self become lost. From there it is a downward spiral as one gets farther and farther from the true self. A crisis situation usually develops that awakens the wayward to the absent true self. It is at this time that ... read more
Facebook and privacy
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)29 Mar 2009 at 4:32 pm
The other day, I left a comment on Kay's post (They Can Do Without My Face) about her concerns over privacy issues on Facebook. Apart from the pros and cons of FB as a social networking site or whether you think it's a waste of time, Kay is not alone in her concerns. As indicated in the video link on her blog, Facebook (and I imagine many similar sites) can pass on the information you disclose t ... read more
More ways to procrastinate
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)22 Mar 2009 at 7:08 pm
I really have a lot of things to do, but . . .
Joy took this Blogthings quiz at Babble On and since she asked, of course I had to try it.
You Are the Philosopher
You love thinking things over and developing theories. Learning is very important to you, and you pursue knowledge relentlessly.
You love to talk about the things you know, often in more detail than people would like to hear.And you know a l ... read more
Taking my own advice
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)21 Mar 2009 at 12:37 pm
While on my tedious (self-imposed) job of re-publishing and re-reading my old posts, I came across this one (Don't Go Away) I wrote just over two years ago. It's too bad I didn't read it before my little hissy-fit of deleting.
It actually contains some decent advice and also my friend, Joy, in the comments.
... read more
Did I just say that out loud?
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)20 Mar 2009 at 1:20 pm
As long as I can remember, I’ve had an active inner voice. By that, I mean there is rarely a time in the day that I’m not thinking about something -- debating with myself (I really should take that class/no, not enough time), making mental lists (go to the bank, drop off library books, pick up some milk, . . .), making plans (when should we go to Hawaii?), commenting on the passing parade (wh ... read more
Re-posting
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)26 Feb 2009 at 2:47 am
I've spent the last few days trying to re-populate my blog archives.
I could have just hit the 'Publish All' button, but decided that this was a good opportunity to do some organizing and tagging of over three years worth of posts.
I began by grouping all the posts that were already tagged as responses to writing prompts. Thus, the "My Scribblings" on the left-hand sidebar. The next step was t ... read more
Grey Skies
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)22 Feb 2009 at 7:42 pm
(This is another piece resurrected from the now defunct First Drafts. It was first posted in January 2006.)
Lydia peered out the kitchen window, trying to get a glimpse of the sky and see what it might portend. Only the usual grey clouds – no sky to speak of. The same grey clouds for the last month. No, that's not exactly true. They were clouds alright and they were grey – but they were always ... read more
I was lost, but now I'm . . .
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)21 Feb 2009 at 12:38 pm
. . . not necessarily found.
In a fit of frustration, angst and self-pity, I deleted my blog about a week ago.
Real life was getting in the way of my blogging. Or maybe blogging was getting in the way of real life. Or maybe it's just the time of year. My ability to compartmentalize seems to be waning (although I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing at my age) and deadline stressors that d ... read more
Don't Divorce Me
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)8 Feb 2009 at 2:02 pm
I saw the following video at The Boomer Chronicle's blog today, Same Sex Couples in California Say, "Don't Divorce Me" about Prop 8 amd Ken Starr's attempt to nullify the 18,000 same-sex marriages in California.
In response, the Courage Campaign has prepared a video and letter-writing campaign to the Supreme Court asking Americans to support the fight against what amounts to forcibly divorcing 18,0 ... read more
A question of art
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)6 Feb 2009 at 5:26 pm
This week's prompt for, Sunday Scribblings is Art. They pose the question: What do you make of art?
ugly
beautiful
meaningful
incomprehensible
It's junk!
It's amazing!
Art begs a response
The progeny of creativity,
it speaks to the soul
If the soul begets creativity
and creativity begets art
Does that mean without a soul there is no art?
And if a creation provokes no response, is it still art?
... read more
Regrets, I've had a few . . .
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)3 Feb 2009 at 9:41 pm
(This is another Debra story. I started writing about her as a lark last June 2008 for a writing prompt. If you want to start at the beginning, click --> here. They read in reverse order, so start from June 20, 2008. I have no idea where it will end, but will continue when and if the mood strikes.)
“Where is HERE?” Debra demanded.
“Looks like a beach.”
Trust Charles to state the obvious. ... read more
Sunday Scribblings #148
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)2 Feb 2009 at 11:18 pm
regrets
a retrospective wish list litany of
could haves and would haves
and if only I had knowns
of service only to melancholy
and late-night insomnia
not the light of day
ole blues eyes had it right
... read more
Idle Ramblings on Super Bowl Sunday
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)1 Feb 2009 at 3:14 pm
It's cold, wet and rainy -- and it's Super Bowl Sunday.
For those of you on the other side of the pond(s) who have never heard of the Super Bowl, it is a BIG DEAL championship football (the one with pads and helmets) game in the U.S. It's estimated that 100 million TV viewers will tune in to watch all or a portion of the game or half-time show.
For non-football fans, the biggest draw is the half- ... read more
Anti-Aging, an oxymoron
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)30 Jan 2009 at 1:57 pm
Yesterday, I saw this item about Suzanne Somers, Suzanne Somers' Daily Routine . . . on Huffington Post.
It describes Somers' appearance on Oprah where she talks about her daily routine of hormone replacement creams, 60 vitamin and nutrient supplements (40 in the morning, 20 at night), and vaginal injections of estriol. She does all of this in order to beat what she calls, "the Seven Dwarfs of Me ... read more
Photo Meme = old book list
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)29 Jan 2009 at 3:48 pm
Being unable to come up with anything original today, I've decided to try this Photo Meme I found at Imagine.
Instructions: Go to the file where you keep photos on your computer, open the fourth file, then choose the fourth photo in the file. Describe.
This is what I found:
It's a picture of my bedside table taken on January 21, 2006. I took it to post on a forum I frequent. I believe we were havi ... read more
My Writing Space
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)28 Jan 2009 at 4:26 pm
I can't remember when I bookmarked Cafe Writing: Scribblings on a virtual napkin, but I rediscovered it today while tidying up my folder of bookmarks. It was saved under Ellen's Favourites -> Writing. I do remember thinking I it would be interesting to try some of their projects. Their projects have several options with a choice of different forms (poetry, fiction, essay, etc.) For some reason, I ... read more
Myers-Briggs Re-visited
by noreply@blogger.com (ell)25 Jan 2009 at 1:39 pm
A few years ago, when just starting this blog, I wrote about my own Myers-Briggs personality type: INFJ. (It also appears to be when Joy, from Babble On first discovered my blog -- but I digress.)
Over the intervening years, I've noticed that the pomegranate tiger gets quite a few hits via Google searches through that particular page.
Today, having nothing better to do, I was looking at my site s ... read more