2010 August | Zero to 60 and Beyond

Home Posts made in August, 2010

Life, Love and Death

Posted on Aug 30, 2010 | 11 comments

Today my heart is full and my heart is broken. Life can be very strange sometimes… and when you least expect it. The past 48 hrs. have been full of life, love and celebrations, including our son and daughter-in-law’s baby shower. The baby is due in a couple of weeks, so it’s really ‘any time now’. We spent about 30 hrs. with them in Baltimore. Saturday evening at their home, which is adorable, sharing a great dinner with them, Marsha’s mom and sister, and their friend, Tim, who’s an amazing chef....

Celebrating a Blogiversary!

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 | 3 comments

Yesterday was my 6 month anniversary of this blog! Hard to believe, really. When I read recently that most blogs don’t last past 3 months I thought, wow… I’m really on a roll. I’ve said before that I feel like this blog is a living breathing extension of me. It has evolved from my angst over turning 60, to celebrating the events in my life that got me here… still and ever hopeful. So this post will be my gift to you… a gift of beauty. I’ve been writing so much the past 6 months that I almost...

Let’s ask an Agent

Posted on Aug 25, 2010 | 3 comments

I am so happy that Paula Balzer, literary agent and author of Saturday Morning Memoir has agreed to answer some questions I have, and I know you do too, about blogging and publishing. Paula, Thank you so much for taking the time to do this, I know how busy you are. As a literary agent you’ve worked with Diablo Cody, Alexandra Robbins and even Randy Jackson. That’s diversity! Given all that why are memoirs so dear to your heart? Oddly, as much as I love memoir, that’s always a tough question to answer. I think my love of...

It’s a Community Center for crying out loud, not a Mosque!

Posted on Aug 22, 2010 | 0 comments

The blogging challenge is over. It was very informative and helpful in many, many ways. I made new friends, found new blogs to enjoy, and added to my own readership. All good! Thanks to the SITstah’s and Pro-Blogger! One thing I learned was that expressing your opinions on your blog creates a lot of discussion! I like a good discussion so I’m going to jump into the latest craziness that is plaguing this country at the moment. A community center near Ground Zero. I don’t know about you,...

Mary, Daryl and Daryl…

Posted on Aug 17, 2010 | 7 comments

If you look at the tag line under the header of this blog you will see ‘the ugly’. Well you have to take the good with the bad and this is about an ugly time in my life, but I’m going to try and lighten it up. Actually it’s kind of humorous on its own when I look back on it. Isn’t hindsight a wonderful filter? I started telling the story last month about the year I ran away with my 2 year old brother. I was 12 years old going on 30. We were living in a disgusting trailer and my mother left us alone...