matt, liz and madeline

by JHSEsq

Some­times a post — or even an entire web­site — ren­ders the reader com­pletely unable to artic­u­late the emo­tions invoked by the piece. So it is with many of the posts pub­lished by Matt Logelin at matt, liz and made­line.

How I man­aged not to hear about his site until very recently, I don’t know. But some­how I clicked from link to link to link one foggy evening while on vaca­tion … and even­tu­ally I found myself mes­mer­ized by images of a beau­ti­ful lit­tle blond girl named Madeline.

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The Typing Makes Me Sound Busy

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She describes her­self as “a free­lance writer and stand-up comic who is both good at Jeop­ardy! and annoy­ing to have at par­ties.” Jelisa “J-Money” Cas­tro­dale has been blog­ging since June 2005, describ­ing her small town South­ern upbring­ing which included sit­ting on her grandmother’s porch lis­ten­ing to “mix­tapes on my Walk­man (includ­ing clas­sics by Heart, Michael […]

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We’re At Dad’s That Week

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White lies. We all tell them for myr­iad rea­sons: To spare a friend’s feel­ings, to avoid becom­ing embroiled in con­tro­versy, to keep a loved one out of trou­ble … There are times when white lies are appro­pri­ate and harm­less. And other times when the truth must be told, no mat­ter how bru­tal or how serious […]

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Speaking from the Heart

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Ah, the hol­i­days are over. The Christ­mas dec­o­ra­tions have been taken down and stowed away until next Thanks­giv­ing (or, for some of you, before the big turkey feast).  All across the land, a col­lec­tive sigh of relief can be heard as family’s return to work and school, resum­ing their nor­mal daily rou­tines (and din­ing habits). […]

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Becca’s Byline

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Becca is sim­ply one of the best writ­ers in the blo­gos­phere. At Becca’s Byline, “an Amer­i­can woman looks at life in gen­eral” from the van­tage point of “newly embark­ing on the sec­ond half of her cen­tury here on earth.” She is thought­ful, intro­spec­tive, frank, and usu­ally very grounded in the real­i­ties of her jour­ney. And […]

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Southern Fried Momma

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Some­times I lose track of time while sit­ting here in front of the com­puter try­ing to decide upon a post that deserves to be the Post of the Day. It hap­pened again this evening after I hap­pened upon South­ern Fried Momma. And at one point, I was laugh­ing so hard that my old­est child came […]

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Miriam Pauline’s Monologue

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She’s an Amer­i­can liv­ing in Europe who home­schools her two young daugh­ters, Jewel and Flower. She is also a cross-stitcher, “wannabe writer, reader, reflec­tor, teacher and lover of Scrip­tures,” in addi­tion to being a quil­ter. After read­ing only a few of her posts, it is evi­dent that her moniker, “The Piece-Maker,” is a dou­ble entendre. […]

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Julie’s Jewels and Junque

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Nom­i­nated by Mimi Lenox at Mimi Writes. The story of a goal accom­plished, a dream ful­filled, a jour­ney home com­pleted, an injus­tice righted. The post hon­ored today fits into all of those lofty cat­e­gories. But more impor­tantly, it is about a daugh­ter of a mem­ber of what Tom Brokaw termed “The Great­est Gen­er­a­tion” who wanted […]

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Halftime Lessons

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The tag line selected by Jay for his site, Half­time Lessons, says a lot about him and his writ­ing: “Pre­pare all you want … fate doesn’t care.” He offers wry and fre­quently hilar­i­ous obser­va­tions about his life. As he explained last August, he is 40 and com­ing to grips with the fact that “[t]ime is […]

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