“…And thanks for all the Pigeons…”

How do you say goodbye to someone you don’t “technically” know? Today is a sad day in the Pittsburgh blogging and social media community.  The anonymous author of The Burgh Blog, PittGirl, a.k.a. Jane Pitt, has closed up shop.  She had mentioned on numerous occasions that she wished she could join the rest of us in the various [...]

K is for…

Way back in October, Andrea posted a meme that I thought was great fun: Leave a comment and I’ll give you a letter. Post ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter.  Then give a letter to anyone who leaves a comment for you… and the cycle will continue. I realized today, after reading the posts on this meme by [...]

Idea Fragments and Emotion Chips

It’s a difficult thing, sometimes, to manage to wrap ideas or emotions in words with a nice little bow just so you can present them to the world to understand.  Plato talked about true ideas diminishing from his concept, to his verbalization, to you hearing it spoken, to your processing and understanding.  The truth of the [...]

Poisonous Bunchbacked Toad

  Aside from writing some of my favorite villains in literary history, Shakespeare also wrote some of the most impressive verbal strings of curses I have ever read.  One of the most memorable, and my personal favorite, is this exchange between Gloucester (soon to be Richard III) and Queen Margaret (whose position as Queen had recently been [...]

Friday 5: Stuck in the Middle with You…

It’s Friday.  Again.  THANK GOD! That means it’s time for Friday 5!  I haven’t been participating in the Friday 5 for a while, but there was a lot going on.  You know, Podcamp, illnesses, drama, elections, you know… the norm.  So, in keeping with the NaBloPoMo spirit, here it is!  You can find the original prompt [...]