Hardly am I looking for sympathy. Sympathy makes me cry, even though it means the world. But I don’t need it to move on. Hardly am I looking to become a voice on being open about miscarriage. Open felt right for me. Open is not right for everyone. I’m writing about my miscarriage because writing [...]
Well, I’m nearly two thirds of the way through NaBloPoMo and it’s continuing to challenge me every day. And while I do think it’s really pushed me to turn out some of my best writing, it sure can be a demanding bitch. And I say that with love. (And some small margin of hate.) (But mostly [...]
Flower in Napa. Taken with my Canon PowerShot SD750, March 2009. So here’s a kind of cool thing. I was crawling my Google Reader this afternoon (as I do multiple times per day) when I came across this post on blog favorite Chookooloonks. Apparently, this month is known as National Blog Posting Month (www.nablopomo.com) which [...]
Everything in my life is changing. We’re getting married, we’re (eventually) moving, possibly buying a house… so it’s only natural that I implement some changes over here at The Spotted Duck. As you can see, if you’re reading this directly from the website, we’ve got a new look and feel over here. I kept it [...]
This is a follow-up post to One year later. , celebrating my one-year “blogiversary”. My, how things change in a year. Not only has my personal life changed dramatically, not only have I grown as a person, but my attitude toward and approach to blogging have evolved immensely as well. When I started blogging last [...]
It’s official. Today The Spotted Duck blog turns one year old. (Photo credit: chrissthegirl) And what a year it has been. Since I started blogging, we’ve elected a new president. One who nuzzles his wife in freight elevators. Since I started blogging, I got engaged. Something I never would have expected if you’d asked me [...]
What’s up, what’s up everybody? I am officially back from San Francisco and I have to say, I loved that city! Seriously. The hills, the weather, the people, the neighborhoods, the food, the wine – ahh! So wonderful. Helped that my friend Lani (and here I would normally link to her blog or Twitter but [...]
So, you know how I haven’t been blogging much lately? We talked about that. Anyways, I can say with confidence that a large part of my silence can be attributed to the fact that I’ve been spending the majority of my “free online time” browsing Etsy. You’ve heard of Etsy, I’ve talked about it here [...]
Dear blog, I’m writing to say I’m sorry. I feel terrible for being so out of touch lately. I’d say “I’ve been busy,” if that would make a difference at all but we both know that’s no excuse. For anything. Ever. I’ve quite simply been neglecting you. There. I said it. When we started down [...]
Well, hello there. My, it’s been long time, hasn’t it? I’ve been somewhat neglectful of my blog for a few weeks now, mostly because I went on vacation and took a self-imposed “social media break.” But also because my good friend, Matt Knell, and I have been up at odd hours working on classing up [...]
