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They Love me in Bulgaria
I must confess that I’m quite obsessed with the statistics page that WordPress so kindly provides us bloggers. I was thrilled a few weeks ago to get the 10,000th view of my blog! Woo hoo! The stats page reveals not only how many people have checked out my blog, but also what countries they’re from,…
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Get Off of my Cloud
As a blogger and a fairly intelligent person, you’d think I’d be up on current events. Not so much. I almost never watch the news. This current trend of expecting the public to live in a world of constant fear makes me sick. And creating news out of non-events, such as what Paris Hilton’s dog…
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Pouringmyartout Banned from the Blogosphere?
Have you ever had a friend or relative who is irrepressible, irreverent, shocking, out of control, and often does things that are, at best, ill conceived, but you can’t help but love him to pieces anyway? In the wild and whacky family that is WordPress, that person, for me, is Pouringmyartout. He makes me laugh.…
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Make up a Holiday Day
Yesterday was International Women’s Day and I should have written about it. I’m a bad blogger. Bad! I really should stay on top of these things. These types of holidays are prime opportunities to create awareness about various topics. I’m sure I could have spoken in depth about the fact that 90 percent of the…
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My 100th Blog Entry
All distances in the Byzantine Empire were once measured from this original milestone, located in Istanbul (Constantinople back then). I’ve stood beside this very important yet inconsequential looking stone as hundreds of people walked by it, probably not realizing its significance. I was thinking about this stone today as I’ve arrived at an important milestone…