Happy Black Poetry Day!

October 17 is Black Poetry Day, which I think is awesome. So, in celebration, I thought I would post some of my favorite poems by Black poets. The English major in me found it hard to just choose a few!
We Wear the Mask – Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides [...]

Turning a New Leaf and Getting Really Confused

For a variety of complicated reasons that I will not be detailing, I have decided to ditch Facebook as my primary modus operandi and switch to Twitter. So far I am totally confused by Twitter, but excited about this much-needed change. So, if you’re on Twitter, look me up! @noelcordle

Laptop Giveaway

Mary at Owlhaven is giving away a laptop – wow! The contest ends tonight at 5:00 p.m. PST. And yes, blogging about this gets me an extra entry. Don’t judge me – it’s a laptop and I am oh-so-poor!

Trapped in Prague: A Detailed Description of the Worst Weekend of My Life

I am crazy busy this week, as it is the first week back to school, so I thought that since my post about The Cocoon might have made someone actually want to hear about this horrible trip to Prague, I would just post the journal entry I wrote back in 2005 after the horrific experience. [...]

Shutting It Down

Well, I’m preparting to shut it all down…but only for a week. I’m headed out on a great Alaskan adventure! Yes, you read correctly. My husband and I have some simply amazing friends who relocated to Alaska about two years ago. They have graciously offered to fly us up for a week-long visit. We’ll be [...]

All About Some Swagbucks

Thanks to Stephanie at Keeper of the Home I am a recent convert to Swagbucks, and I of course just have to gush about it here at mere musings as well! I will be up-front in telling you that I am educating you for two reasons: 1.) I want you to become as crazy about [...]

Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me

It started with a bag of peaches bought from an old farmer selling them out of the back of his truck…

And ended quite beautifully, if I do say so myself!

That’s a half-gallon of frozen sliced peaches for smoothies, three pints of sliced peaches in honey syrup, and three pints of peach preserves, in case you [...]

My Mosaic

I borrowed this idea from Ashley. Here’s how you do it:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/).
b. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3 (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php).
The Questions:
1. [...]

Guess who’s back?

Me! I’ve decided to try the blog thing once again. Thanks to those of you who have encouraged me and told me you miss my blog! Please check back soon for more posts.