I own linleydolby.com. I would like it if you could go there and see a picture of me and a short bio on the left, then a column on the right with a list of my favorite books and books I am currently reading. I would like it if you could navigate to another page that houses my blog, and a third page where I might put excerpts from works-in-progress, links to magazine articles, and maybe a couple of the short pieces from my blog revised as essays.
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Dear web-savvy friends,
I’m on a soapbox, and you should be too
Yesterday I was busy Being A Capital-A American. I paid my Taxes and I attended Town Meeting and then when that was all over, I patronized my local Pub and drank Beer with My Mom. And I have to say, after all the presidential campaigning I endured on Facebook for the past year, I was very disappointed to see few people within ten years of my age at Town Meeting.
I don’t even see it as an option. I vote. I attend Town Meetings. It’s what I do. And I just find it surprising that, for the number of people around my age who I listen to all the time discuss politics with passion and sometimes pride and often vitriol, there is very little interest on the local level.
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Yep, it’s Monday again
Monday is the day when I blog about pretty much nothing. See what BEDA has done for me? It has given me a ROUTINE! Friday Fives, Mundane Mondays, frightening pictures of Jesus. Thank you, BEDA!
So right now I officially declare Monday the day I’m allowed to blather on about nothing in particular, aimlessly, and without purpose. And I can be redundant too! No editor! There’s too much in the headspace on Monday for anything to make much sense, and luckily I always have the rest of the week to sort it out.
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Happy Easter!
A good day for this guy…
[EDITED 4/16: I had to move the Jesus picture to after the jump, because it was freaking me out every time I visited the blog. You win, Jesus, you wily man.]
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Dave says to tell you about the Chicken Farm. I oblige.
I know you won’t believe this, but I’ve spent a lot of the day trying to rationalize taking a day off from BEDA. I KNOW! I TOLD you you would think I was joking.
So I’m going to do something today that I rarely do, which is HUMOR DAVE.
Dave (The Husband, for the uninitiated) spends a lot of time telling me what I should write about. Dave’s ideas are kind of out there. (There will probably be more than one comment on this blog post attesting to this fact.) So generally, I nod and go about my business, knowing that the story of our neighborhood as seen through the eyes of a wild turkey or the complicated thoughts of our K9 companions will never find documentation from this source.
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Friday five: Ways I have failed God*
It is the Holy Week and it is time to count the many ways in which I have failed as a Catholic.
1. The only thing I know about Good Friday is that when I was a kid, you could go to church and have your feet washed. This probably wasn’t just when I was a kid – this is probably going on in a church near me right now – but it is all I know of the GF. Right now I’m contemplating guessing at what transpired on Good Friday, but I’m reeeeeally concerned about embarrassing myself. All right. The crucifixion. I checked my work on Wikipedia to be sure. I’m not totally dumb.
2. When I was in college, while walking past one of the myriad Catholic schools named Assumption Something-or-other, I asked my friend Jenny about the assumption. Jenny went to Catholic school and knows these things. I said, “What was the Assumption anyway. What was Assumed?” Jenny, in her most patient Jenny voice explained that “Mary was assumpted to heaven.” Ah, I thought. It’s like one of those words in Webster’s that has two definitions. Got it.
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BEDA stole my hair
How devoted am I to BEDA? Blog Every Day April, that is? This endeavor championed by Maureen Johnson at the advent of the release of Suite Scarlett in paperback – you know, THAT BEDA?
This is how devoted.
This is what I am reading right now:
This is the haircut I got today…
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The Tyra Banks/Dustin Pedroia Smackdown
I’m staring at an empty text box here at 7:59 p.m. I will not let BEDA become a big old FAIL just because it happens to fall on a time when I am busier with work and life than ever. Just because on the CW at this very moment, Tyra is discussing what has happened “Previously on America’s Next Top Model,” and it would be so easy to just shut the laptop and tune in, I will not quit so easily.
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Well, beat the drum and hold the phone…
…the sun came out today!
We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field.*
The clouds appear to be clearing out there, and it’s looking like we might get some baseball in today. I have a kitchen stocked with Fenway Franks and Gulden’s mustard, peanuts in the shell, and I think what’s cooler than the fact that I have all these things is how heavy with memories of seasons past each is.
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Mundane Monday
I’ve never met a Monday that was so essentially Monday-y.
Up at 8. Took the dogs out. Made coffee. Emptied dishwasher. Checked email. Filled dishwasher. Went to the grocery store. Put away groceries. Fifteen minutes for lunch. Bookkeeping. Spreadsheets. Bills. Fed dogs. Cooked dinner. All the while, rain, rain, and more rain.
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