When was the last time you wrote a bibliography?  A proper one… APA format and all?  This afternoon over my limp Amy’s bean and cheese burrito (yes, still too lazy/ disorganized to pack my own lunch) I listened in as three coworkers discussed the merits of  KINDLE vs. iPAD vs. NOOK.  Oh you can get free books on Amazon with this one, blah blah blah….  “Yeah, you know where else you can get free books?”  I teased my friend,  “The LIBRARY!!!!” The conversation took a few twists and related turns, leading to one of the Grateful Dead era loving teachers saying she looks for books using a card catalog, not a search engine.   We then sadly admitted not having any idea how to source comments and write bibliographies anymore.  Granted, most of the reading we do on a daily basis is more of the board book than text book variety, so the pressure is sort of off for now.  In any case, My friend said, “You know, when I was younger and had a …

So here I am, the girl who won’t join FB, now starting my own blog. I am a blog addict. I sit up late at night reading, clicking, reading, searching, and clicking some more after gaining inspiration from a new recipe, an appealing photo, or ridiculously awesome entertaining idea. Every day more information, every day something new I learn that I probably will not use.I know that my favorite blogs are written by creative chicks who have a theme- cooking, decorating, crafting, travelling, shopping, thrifting, or party planning. I dabble (or rather dribble) in a bit of all, except for the thrifting, although one of my favorite things is seeing women who appoint their homes so meticulously with the reckless abandon needed to use something “from the attic”, “the flea”, or “found in an alley and re-purposed.”I am a journal writer. I have kept journals over the years, sometimes writing daily, even hourly, but lately, monthly if I am lucky. This is why I am today, finally, jumping out of my comfort zone and starting …