A Daily Life

I will soon be relaunching my old blog at http://www.dogear6.com.  I intend it to be a writer’s resource, particularly focused to diarists and bloggers.  It’s mission is to provide writing prompts, book reviews, journal jar ideas, and encouragement on creativity.  It will be a mix of original material, links and reposted material, and guest bloggers. If you […]

I posted some really good answers to the questions on my other blog, Living The Seasons.  Remember to subscribe over there for my daily updates!

dogear6 is now moved to Living The Seasons.  Please click here to go to it. It was a huge success!  I’m still tinkering with it, but it’s getting there.  Please remember to change  your subscriptions and RSS feeds. Thanks to Patti at A New Day Dawns for her suggestion about today’s word.

This weekend, I’ll be moving my blog over to inhabit my other blog site, Living The Seasons.  I’ve had the name for three years, but did very little with it.  When I started this blog at dogear6, it was meant to be a fun little photo thing to help me learn to blog.  I’d planned on putting […]

I did some research on the Internet today to find out how Advent originated. There’s no clear timeline when the ritual of Advent became popular, but it has been credited to the Catholic Church, most likely with Pope St. Gregory the Great in the 6th Century.  The practice of the Advent Calendar came later  with the […]

A few days ago, I made up a list of some of my thoughts about Christmas.  The big one was how behind I was, which I remedied last weekend by settling down and finishing gifts that I was making and ordering things that needed to be ordered. But the rest of my list is less […]

Somedays I’m tired of the limits of where I can walk during lunch and take my photos.  And then the light will glisten just thus and so, brilliant as it glitters in the water and presto!  I’m there with the camera, eager to take pictures. This was such a day back in October.  The photo […]

At the end of October, I wrote about planning ahead for the Christmas holidays.  So how is this North Pole elf doing? Not very good.  Maybe Santa will fire me and I can go back to bed.  Ha! I’d hoped by Thanksgiving to have my annual letter drafted and photos chosen.  I also wanted to get the […]

I’m so thankful that our miniature pinscher was inside snoozing when this visitor came by.  The trees are clear of leaves, so there was good visibility to see that the tree suddenly acquired something additional.  The hawk was big, so it’s probably a female redtail in winter plumage. It was facing our neighbor’s yard until it heard my […]

I’m a firm believer in acts of random kindness.  It can make such a a big difference in the day, whether you’re the giver or the receiver. I’d explained my thoughts on this topic in an earlier post.  Today I found this website – HelpOthers.org – that encourages readers to write in the kindnesses they’ve […]

Patti, over at A New Day Dawns, nominated me for a Kreative Blog Award.  How cool is that!  It’s a a fun little thing and a nice way to pat each other on the back.  I’m a champion, at least for a day.  The rules are: To accept the award, one is to share a little […]

Earlier this year, I began not one, but two, daily challenges – blogging and photography. Yesterday I wrote about why I started blogging and continued blogging.  As I worked on my post, I realized that while I blogged because I enjoyed it, I had begun the daily photo challenge for a totally different reason.  I […]