I think I started using Pinterest back when I got engaged. I think scrapbooks are messy and stupid, but I wanted a way to procrastinate collect ideas for the wedding, and more importantly, the honeymoon. I also had a board of sayings called THE WALL and visual writing prompts tacked on STORYBOARD. I didn’t have a board for my blog, because I didn’t know that was a thing to do. And so, I pinned wedding things and purple things and…
Thought I’d do a little impromptu ice-cream/beer/cider/tea/coffee social – Post a bit about your blog and links to your social media you’d like me (and other people) to connect with you on. Make connections with other people in the comments! I’ll go first: I post about life, books and Isla on Facebook and Instagram. I pin on Pinterest and I have a group board for bloggers here, if you’d like to pin, too. I am too wordy for Twitter. I…
One of the things I love about blogging, maybe the first thing I love about blogging, are the connections we make with the people behind the blogs. I love the randomness, the silly and the serious, the excuses to connect. I’m answering these random questions because Becca and Gloria wanted to know my answers to them. And because I like random questions. I think random questions help people think about/work out/put words to the not-so-random things in life. And so,…
Hello! Picture it: A relaxed but working writer on her laptop in a coffeeshop. Sipping coffee and eating a complicated but delicious sandwich. Inspired by the coffee shop music of various conversations punctuated by random laughter and maybe some tears. Inspired by her coffee and her complicated but delicious sandwich. Setting the scene out the window. Or at the next table. Happily caffeinated and writing words. That writer WAS NOT me. I know I said I’d be blogging throughout the…
We travel down to Edinburgh on Saturday and fly to New York on Sunday. Things have been a little hectic around here, but we are nearly ready to go. I’m looking forward to being on the plane. Planes are where I don’t have to take any phone calls, charge any phones, or answer questions harder than ‘chicken or fish?’ The last time we were on a flight, Isla slept through most of it. She can have the window seat this…
