From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Just Eat Your Cupcake

by JHSEsq

Neigh­bors are inter­est­ing crea­tures. They can be good or bad, but sel­dom dull. Every once is agreat while a neigh­bor who becomes part of the fam­ily. Maria is the author of the blog Just Eat Your Cup­cake. Years ago Maria and her daugh­ter moved into their neigh­bor­hood and met a boy named Sven. Sven became […]

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Two Write Hands (and Two Left Feet)

by JHSEsq

The Ris­ing Blog­ger has writ­ten reviews and awarded some pretty inter­est­ing blogs since we started this ven­ture about a half a year ago. We’ve never nom­i­nated more than one post on any given day. How­ever that changes today, because you must read BOTH posts so to com­plete the story. Two Write Hands is a published […]

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Dazd and Confuzed From Here

by JHSEsq

Each week, Dazd from Dazd and Con­fuzed From Here, cov­ers a wide vari­ety of top­ics such as the weekly “Cap­tion It” con­tests, “Thurs­day Trivia” and “Off­beat Tues­days”. Gen­er­ally seen as a humor blog there is always some­thing to enjoy as Dazd enter­tains you with his knowl­edge and wit. How­ever, in his recent post of Sep­tem­ber 25th, […]

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Picking Up Pieces

by JHSEsq

Josie Two Shoe’s daugh­ter asked her some ques­tions about her child­hood. She wanted more infor­ma­tion about her folk’s divorce and such. The post from Sep­tem­ber 13, 2007 is titled Sort­ing Thru Boxes, which is our author’s euphemism for sift­ing through her mem­o­ries. Here is what Josie has to say, “As I’ve noted before, much of […]

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The Sacred and the Space in Between

by JHSEsq

When this post was nom­i­nated, we wanted to be care­ful. We have noth­ing against reli­gion, how­ever as Jimmy Buf­fett once sang in his song Fruit­cakes, “Reli­gion is in the hands of some crazy-ass peo­ple”. But some­thing hap­pened while we read the post and got to know this blog called The Sacred and the Space in […]

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mylifestartsatfortytwo.com

by JHSEsq

Beth Pena (aka Skip­per) from mylifestartsatfortytwo.com is start­ing her life over. She says “I am work­ing on mak­ing the world a bet­ter place by open­ing my eyes and heart to things that really mat­ter…” In her beau­ti­fully writ­ten post from Sep­tem­ber 21, 2007 enti­tled The Jig­saw Puz­zle she tells an endear­ing story of how a […]

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Astoria Oregon Rust

by JHSEsq

What do you get when you put an East Coast guy in a lit­tle back­wa­ter burg called Asto­ria, Ore­gon? You get one very amus­ing and pithy com­men­ta­tor at Asto­ria Ore­gon Rust. The Guy Who Writes has been rail­ing against town pol­i­tics, politi­cians, stu­pid laws, irri­tat­ing tourists, encroach­ing “civ­i­liza­tion” and other annoy­ances for quite a while—but […]

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Roads of Stone

by JHSEsq

The author of today’s fea­tured blog calls him­self Roads. The blog is Roads of Stone. He started a blog about his run­ning, but it mor­phed into a jour­nal of his trav­els and reac­tions from the world around him. He is a very good writer and through his words and pho­tos his post takes us to […]

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A Piece of Peace

by JHSEsq

Ruby is an inspi­ra­tional blog­ger who has cho­sen the road less trav­eled. Diag­nosed with breast can­cer in March 2007, she made the deci­sion not to have treat­ment or surgery but instead opted to live with her con­di­tion in peace and hap­pi­ness. Her blog, A Piece of Peace, is as the name sug­gests, a quiet reflective […]

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