Lights out

May 12, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Lights out

Or, Someone find me a bushel basket! Just another photo post. I’m slowly trying to figure out the settings on the digital SLR camera we bought nearly two years ago. It’s really overwhelming to me, so sometimes I just take 100 or so photos of some mundane item in my house. Like my favorite lamp, which...
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20 things you may not know about me

May 11, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
20 things you may not know about me

Plus one that’s a damn lie. After a lot of begging, cajoling, and favor-offering, I have persuaded my husband to write a post for my blog. Aside from the fact that he still puts two spaces after a period — hello, are we writing on a 1986 IBM Selectric? — I think he did a...
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It’s Haiku Day!

May 10, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap

Today participants in the WordCount blogathon are encouraged to write a haiku. Mine is about the day I just had. Substitute teacher takes fifth-graders on field trip News at eleven. Coincidentally, last year I went on a field trip on haiku day as well. I think today’s went marginally better than that one. I’m excited about tomorrow’s guest post,...
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Letter from the past

May 9, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Letter from the past

One of the best parts of blogging every day for a month is frantically looking through all my old, half-written posts for something I can throw up on the screen in lieu of real content. For instance, here is a post that I wrote last summer and never published. It’s like a little time capsule...
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Go the F**k to Sleep

May 8, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Go the F**k to Sleep

A warm and loving book recommendation for Mother’s Day. The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear Please go the fuck to sleep. I learned about Go the F**k to Sleep on Facebook yesterday, when a friend linked to the photo album...
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Blogathon Recap, Week of May 2

May 7, 2011
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Blogathon Recap, Week of May 2

Or “Look, just leave me alone and read other people’s stuff for a change.” I’m reading a lot of good blogs by other participants in the 2011 WordCount Blogathon. Because we have 200 or so participants this year, the choices cover a wide range of topics and writing styles. If you like me, I think you...
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