Archive for September, 2007

Sweet Tooth Solutions

I have a sweet tooth, though through the years I have become much pickier about what I will eat in order to satisfy my sweet tooth. Today I realized I was in the mood for Rice Krispy treats, but in this house we eat Special K, and lots of it. So, I pulled out my […]

Wordpress Backup

How often do you backup your Wordpress content? I was doing a manual backup from time to time for all three of my blogs and had just installed a plugin that would e-mail me a daily back up on Suncoast Scribe when I lost access to my Plus1 and GirlyThing1 blogs.
Now, I did not have […]

Chris Makepeace: where have you been?

I have several small websites that I set up over the years. Most are for obscure authors, actors and the like. I have a couple of rather high-traffic sites for actors as well, but that is a whole other post.
Anyway, I have a very small website dedicated to the actor Chris Makepeace. You may remember […]

Farewell to Madeleine L’Engle

Author Madeleine L’Engle, who wrote “A Wrinkle in Time” and could claim me as a fan as early as 3rd grade, died of natural causes at the age of 88. She was at a nursing home in Litchfield, CT.
I admired how she did not hide her Christian beliefs and often turned the spotlight on spiritual […]

The Nature of Friendships

We all have our circle of friends that live near our homes, or perhaps people who we knew in school or in places where we used to live. I may not talk to most of my fiends daily, but the fact is they are always there and only a phone call away.
I think that the […]

Summer Supper

One thing I really miss about living up north is the ability to go into the garden and harvest a perfect summer supper. I could put in a garden here in Florida and I actually intend to do so, but I have to re-learn everything for this region.
While I was at my paternal grandmother’s house […]

Crossing Over, but not like John Edward

Welcome to the continuation of a blog I have enjoyed writing for nearly a year now. I started my Girly Things blog as a sub-domain of someone who felt kind enough to provide a free account for me, but as I returned this afternoon for a long trip out of town for the funeral of […]

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