Posts Tagged: Jenny Hansen
Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday bump and picking up speed for the rest of the week. Today, we have a lot to celebrate, since it’s Mardi Gras, aka “Fat Tuesday.” For a lot of us, it’s a day to indulge in goodies before the Lenten go-withouts kick in;…
Hmm, it was hard to come up with a ROW80 theme this week. We have President’s Day (grade-school children in tall hats and fake beards, reading patriotic poetry), Mardi Gras (wild, bead-throwing, it-stays-in-Vegas revelry), and for some of us, Lent (religious, penitent, swearing off – gasp! – chocolate). Then I remembered…Fasnacht Day, originally a Pennsylvania…
Welcome to Tuesday Terrific, where we celebrate getting over the Monday bump and picking up speed for the rest of the week! Today we’re looking at that age-old puzzle: men and women trying to figure each other out. Through a humor lens, of course, because otherwise we’d be pounding our heads against the…
I have a little confession to make: I was a ROW80 “silent stalker” for a good bit of 2011. The signs were unmistakable – blog visits to ROWers’ sites, the wistful sighs as I saw them cheer each other on over successes, and encourage one another over goals not met…and – ooh – the goal-envy. Wow,…
For those of you celebrating Christmas – or enjoying it as a spectator sport, watching all the crazies running around – take heart: the home stretch is nearly here! We can feel the exertions, can’t we? Even in the world of the internet, with posts from writer/techie/blogger-extraordinaire Jenny Hansen, who reflects on how Christmas preparations…
Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday, where the water is above-average, the topics are bubbly, and the company is sparkling. You may have noticed things getting a little gloomy out there lately; early snow, early nightfall, colder temps, bare trees. It seems high time for: Another Round of Belly Laughs! Let’s start with some good news… 1.…
How could there be a mystery to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you ask? American humorist and cartoonist James Thurber asked the same question, with some funny results. Thurber’s life had some interesting moments, including being blinded in one eye as a child when his brother tried to shoot an apple off his head with an arrow (they…
Yay! It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going. We all need help getting over hump-day, after all. Hospitals have been coming to mind this week: it seems that lately a lot of friends (including blogging buddies) have been…
