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 […]

Over at her blog, Random Thoughts From Midlife, Christine Grote has posed the question why do you write a blog? I’ve been a thwarted writer for years.  Blogging is an outlet for my creative expression. I’m not sure about keeping this section in – it’s a little long, but I’d like to share it.  If […]

When this word came up in the random word selection, I had a fairly strong reaction to it.  I left the word in (sometimes I redo a random choice if the word is too strange or too ordinary), but spent some time considering why I didn’t like it. There are two definitions to the word […]

I changed the header in my blog to a December holiday theme.  I took this picture over ten years ago at a favorite lunch spot.  The full photo is below. I’ve also been experimenting with different backgrounds on the sides of the blog.  The one on there currently is from French Kiss Textures, being used in […]

One of the more frustrating bumper stickers I see on cars says, “My Dog Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student”.  Having been an honor student, my child being an honor student, and owning dogs of my own, I find that statement to be offensive. Have you ever seen the Jeff Foxworthy show, “Are You Smarter Than […]

This weekend has had a lot of tender moments. Here’s the cook of the excellent meal we had for Thanksgiving.  Her and I went shopping on Saturday (her Dad stayed home nursing a bad back) and it was fun getting some new clothes for her.  She takes such good care of us when we come […]

After we got done with our lovely Thanksgiving dinner (wonderfully cooked by our daughter), there was some mumbling about needing a nap. Only one of us got one.  And she thoroughly enjoyed it too! Word for tomorrow – TENDER.  If you prefer to work ahead, see the list for the week under “A Word A […]

It’s been a hard and strenuous Black Friday.  Somehow has to go out there, fight the crowds, and spend their money.  And you know what?  It wasn’t us. Nope.  We slept in late, had an even later breakfast at IHop, and spent the afternoon watching the Cooking Channel, surfing the Internet, reading, and visiting.  Oh yes, […]

One journaling exercise that I like is to create a list of 100.  I always start excited to list out 100 things of whatever, only to struggle to complete it.  Today was no different as I did a list of 100 things to be thankful for.  It’s been a good year and I’d like to remember […]