tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103314352024-03-17T18:33:27.711-07:00Postcards From the Journey...Hermworld...and points after.KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-19378480409451101972023-12-12T08:48:00.000-08:002024-03-10T16:06:38.917-07:00The Reading/Writng Connection The truth is this: in order to be a writer, even a good writer, you don't need the best grammar and punctuation in the world.You just need to be better than most, in order to have a good level of "understandability"™ to your writing. Having the best grammar, spelling, and punctuation (and especially syntax) you can possibly have is definitely a good thing, but if it's not effortless for youKatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-7958627656404122062023-11-03T23:43:00.001-07:002023-11-03T23:43:23.689-07:00Cue the Failure Music (Wa-waah!) Ok, so I actually missed a day on the very second day (Go me!)So what I propose to do about this is to spend today's 100 words on discussing what things distract me from setting up good habits.From the outset, I should tell you a few things about me: I am somewhat disabled, due to having operations on my feet & having 2 wait for a foot to heal in order to get a hip replacement.This has KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-53993293684439972542023-11-01T23:52:00.001-07:002023-11-01T23:54:28.958-07:00AltNaNo! Well, I found this thing on Tumblr, and it occurred to me that if I want to get serious about blogging again I need to start doing something like this.I've, always admired people that do NaNoWriMo every year, but I did question how people do it. I've actually been writing off and on since I was a little kid, and I couldn't write an entire novel in one month! 50, 000 words. Are some of them KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-49340812179458860632023-10-24T11:18:00.000-07:002024-03-10T11:19:56.037-07:00Stuff You Need to Be Cool in Delaware1. A Corvette2. Driving shades3. A garageThe presence of item #2 entails the idea of driving *music*, which I find to be very important.This raises the question, what DOES the president listen to when he’s driving? Does he play Credence or the Stones? Probably nothing heavier than that.I don’t think he’s a Metallica guy, I can’t see him blasting “Master of Puppets" out his car window, but “KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-44727777498737164462023-10-13T01:32:00.001-07:002023-10-13T01:34:41.933-07:00One TERF's ViewpointSo, Dylan Mulvaney won "Woman of the Year" from an LGBTQ magazine, and called people like me, who actually don't really hate them, but have issues surrounding the T situation, HATEFUL.So why does this mean anything to me? Why is it my business anyway? I'm a cis woman who isn't even a part of the Alphabet Club. Because I guess I want you to know, that, technically, I don't hate you. I want KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-34698300825417047302023-01-23T22:31:00.001-08:002023-10-08T22:44:50.421-07:00The Greatest Book That's Not the Bible My favorite book of all time, the one that shaped who I am *before* I read the Bible and had my world turned around, is “Harriet the Spy", by Louise Fitzhugh.You open that book up, on the first page, this girl is PLANNING A CITY. You can’t get more “grab the reader & run with them" than that.I was introduced to this book at a very early age, in the summer school session, after first KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-68413907552289252202022-11-28T11:17:00.001-08:002023-10-08T11:18:29.938-07:00 Working thru a book called “Anybody Can Write” by Roberta Jean Ryan, & thought I’d share this one exercise about #writing misconceptions. Interestingly, these can also apply to Tweeting, or even sharing the Gospel:• Writing is only for when you have the time.• Writing is for people who have something “interesting” to say.• Writing is only for people w/beliefs & values thatKatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-11861698383234951452022-11-06T11:14:00.003-08:002023-10-08T11:16:29.852-07:00Not a Fan of BookTok At least not currently. I use TikTok as a before-going-to-sleep thing, so I mainly just look at stuff that’s relevant to me as an internet consumer: Adam Driver stuff, Christian stuff, planners, drawing, creative writing stuff, and such. So I do a lot of ForYou page scrolling.I don’t delve too deep into BookTok, because they read stuff I don’t really wanna read, too much contemporary KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-81301514600092272732022-03-31T12:40:00.010-07:002023-10-08T12:45:03.949-07:00Crazy Idea Here's a crazy idea: just stop with the Oscars already. Stop with the pomp and pageantry, stop with the ridiculous outfits (looking at you, Timothy Chalamet) stop with the cheesy music numbers and just cancel the Oscars from ever happening again.
Instead just have a little stretch of red carpet, put Adam Driver in a tux and just have him walk up and down. For the guys you could get JessicaKatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-39475789788170004972021-08-10T11:11:00.002-07:002023-10-08T11:13:43.023-07:00Once again, the World Wide Web… So, new things are going on with me in the whole learning WebDev thing.What’s going at this juncture is that since I am slightly disabled, with a pending hip replacement surgery, wt I have to do is have an onramp to employment where I don’t have to be on my feet (I also had bunionectomies on both feet–everything all came down on me, mobilitywise, over the past two years.)I use a walker, andKatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-19625491911551798402021-04-04T11:07:00.002-07:002023-10-08T11:09:40.268-07:00Stream of Consciousness A new dawn, a new day. He is risen, hallelujah. Easter afternoon. Many things to do.Fog lifting from coming off pain meds. New agenda, get ready for life–the proverbial “new normal”, which is going to be what?New job? New home? Will people get in my way again? What will the people on the outside be like?What to do to get ready? Be ready for anything. Get writing again. Get working again. KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-22733966258823374832020-04-15T11:04:00.004-07:002023-10-08T11:06:46.669-07:00No Flowers For Your Gun... I’m going on I think my 3rd re-watch of Girls and I’ve arrived at season 2, episode 1: It’s About Time. Wherein Sackler has gotten hit by the truck, because he was standing in the middle of the road, engrossed in telling Hannah off about everything he thinks is wrong with her. I really love Girls more than part of me thinks I should, and stuff like this is why. Because it puts me KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-54921876431185053742019-10-01T11:01:00.001-07:002023-10-08T11:03:02.730-07:00 The gal in the other bed across from mine has been moaning in pain for at least 2 hours now. Always a moan, never quite a scream, sometimes a spontaneous cry, but never quite making it there.This reminds me of a bizarre thought I have when I hear children crying– I always secretly wish for them to cry absolutely as hard as they can, maybe because I want to punish the parent of this KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-69432919430970687212019-01-07T10:55:00.006-08:002023-10-08T21:38:11.098-07:00Bullet Journaling The PreparationThe What: All kinds of pens, meticulously tested and reviewed (even watching YouTube videos –about a $2.00 pen, go figure!) Every paper binding device I could get my hands on (just saying “notebook” doesn’t convey it.)I’ve been piling up these supplies recently, even getting a job at a big box store to gain greater access to the stuff (The number of writing KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-26027131987548268342018-12-15T10:42:00.001-08:002023-10-08T10:48:57.699-07:00Journal ExerciseThe written word, whether reading or writing it myself, has been important to me since I first learned about it in grade school.Teachers thankfully chose good material to read to us, Harriet the Spy, Charlotte’s Web, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH stand out as memorable. As soon as I learned to write I was keeping a journal. On a couple of occasions it was found and read by people who KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-46746924848036746562018-10-29T21:03:00.000-07:002018-10-29T21:08:04.321-07:00Smells Like Extreme Teen SpiritSo, here's an interesting feature of Open Library, probably one of my favorite websites of all time.
Oh, the possibilities...KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-75308462531895636052018-01-12T19:19:00.000-08:002018-01-12T19:19:35.878-08:00My Current Quiet Time RoutineAs soon as I get up (usually, let's be honest here):
Go to Bible Gateway and get the latest verse of the day. Write it down, add my prayerful response to this verse. (This takes roughly seven to ten minutes. If I'm pressed for time, have to hustle to work, I save the next steps for when I'm on the bus...)
Ask God for wisdom, and read the day 's section in whatever Bible reading plan I'm going KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-81306745220218459152016-11-13T22:57:00.000-08:002016-11-13T22:57:30.183-08:00Quick and Dirty DIY Bible TabsThis was something I did with my big purple Adventure Kid's Bible, it seemed like the kind of thing that needed colorful tabs.
I think I was probably watching True Detective or something while I did this, I remember the TV being on. Just using regular graph paper I laid out a grid of colored squares with abbreviations of bible book titles on them. I had checked and knew they would be the KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-18873411604780080682016-07-18T20:38:00.000-07:002016-07-18T20:38:11.802-07:00Feminist Fight ClubWas deeply disappointed recently with comedian Laurie Kilmartin. It seems she thinks a great way to register disagreement with other women on the interwebs is to insist that they need to "stick a dick in their vagina".
I had such high hopes for you, funny lady! Not only a pretty good comic, but I felt solidarity with you over the recent loss of your dad and such. I don't know if you consider KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-64921700498627201182016-05-24T05:55:00.001-07:002016-05-24T05:55:16.527-07:00Test post. Posting from phone.KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-33206739820835118812016-03-29T19:14:00.000-07:002016-03-29T19:20:22.568-07:00And the Sickness Unto...So, I'm not quite out of the woods yet, but I'm fighting my way out of a week long flu-like illness. I don't get sick like this often, but when I do it can be pretty intense.
When I get sick like this, I get as close to being suicidal as I can, because I have really weird scary dreams. There was one with monster blockhead alien beings (there is a video on YouTube somewhere of me in a chat room, KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-21510275716770039202016-02-03T19:32:00.001-08:002023-10-08T10:19:16.011-07:00What If?What if everything wrong with a person was holding back everything that was right with them?
I had an interesting thought: what if all the good stuff about that one person I couldn't bring myself to forgive was somehow free? It could come out and heal old hurts by causing them to say things I wish they would.
It would also be like they would be free too. They would have the KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-48063488616612833672016-02-01T20:59:00.001-08:002016-02-01T20:59:07.774-08:00Kitchen MemoriesThe wallpaper was a fruit and vegetable motif, done in brilliant orange and green. This was the late sixties/early seventies, when really earthy earth tones were popular (avocado green refrigerators and ovens were born around this time.)
Spices we had then: petrified tumeric in a small can from 1937, oregano, and something called "Beau Monde" seasoning, which seemed to be an unholy concoction of KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-77943823935006264302016-01-03T21:54:00.001-08:002016-01-03T21:55:09.764-08:00Roots, Branches, & What We Allow to Grow So we've been talking about the book of James in Sunday school. The best I can describe it, James is mostly about discipleship, and not being a phony Christian.
Recently we've been going over the verses regarding the tongue: 3:1 - 12.  Verse 6: "And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course ofKatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0San Bruno, San Bruno37.63049 -122.41109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10331435.post-7576885781807078052015-01-01T13:08:00.001-08:002015-01-01T13:11:40.698-08:00My Three Words for 2015So, Chris Brogan over @ Chris Brogan is doing this whole "three word" thing, and I Iike it.
I like that this is turning the idea of of "resolutions" on its head. Because your New Year's stuff should be more about focus than about stuff you oughtta do,, which can ruin your focus.
That being said, I'd like to get this under way with my three words, which are:
Calibrate. KatesFreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16444106147942521199noreply@blogger.com0