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Housekeeping vs. Blogkeeping
It goes without saying that I haven't been writing so much this year. Good thing it goes without saying, then. Still, I say it to kick off this rare moment of actually writing something because I'm trying to fix the problem by first identifying the problem. I seem to be lacking something: Is it inspiration, or time ( Read more... ) -
Tacky Slide Show!
One reason it took me so long to post that exhaustive essay about our Disney World trip was that at the same time I was putting together a slide show - an idea that came as a whim and ended, as all things do, as a giant project. It was meant strictly as an exercise for myself in learning the myriad possibilities of Movie Maker. Somewhere along the ( Read more... ) -
So We Went to Florida This One Time....
Finally getting around to this. Brace yourselves, here comes the slide show...
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Still Here, or Mostly, Anyway
I can't decide whether my personal productivity has hit an all-time high or an all-time low. Lately I seem to have a whole lot of half-finished projects around the house. One of them is the Disney travelogue, complete with pictures, which currently sits as a private entry in a three-quarters-written state waiting to be finished and brought forward ( Read more... ) -
I Might Be On TV Tonight
Or I might not. In any event, it's on a local channel, so if you don't live in the DC area you won't be able to see it tonight, but at 8 p.m. on WETA, Washington's PBS station, the WETA Guide to Montgomery County will include footage of Woodlawn Manor Living History Museum's Underground Railroad program, and, yes, I was working the day they filmed ( Read more... ) -
Walt Disney World 2011 Part 1
As travelogues go, writing about going to Walt Disney World presents some unique challenges. For starters, you're starting from the idea that most everybody has a fairly good idea of what is to be found there, even if they haven't personally been. So to lavish one thousand words on, say, what you'll see when you drift through The Pirates of the ( Read more... ) -
Damn, I'm Funny
I've been sitting here all alone in my office cackling with laughter. Yes, all by myself. Yes, I'm in my pajamas, if you must know. Noon, OK, fine, it's noon, but I did eat lunch. It was a Luna bar, and don't say How Appropriate ( Read more... ) -
A Less-Than-Magical Day
The following is an old story I've previously posted in a friends-only version in this blog, but for various reasons I needed to re-post it for any and all readers to enjoy the beautiful moment fondly remembered here ( Read more... ) -
Dizzy Whirled
While this entry is about our just-completed visit to Disney World, it has no fun snapshots or family videos. It is heavy-laden with YouTube clips, and there's plenty of my trademark introspection, but for now, not so much in the way of travelogue. I'm hoping to get around to that in a future post, but for now we have....( the long and rambling afterthoughts of a Walt Disney World vacation )
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