There is a blog called Time Goes By. It has a long link of links to older bloggers. Here are a few samples of their work. The first, which sets the tone for the rest, is by way of a poem.

Random memories,
yours and mine,
pulled one by one
from velvet sacks
and laid on the table
of our common awareness,
connect,
gain strength and structure,
build a bridge
from then to now.

I promised not to say anything too sappy, but my baby boy is 35 today!! He really is a great guy and I’m very proud of him. Here is a look back at some of the early years. Note the “thumbs up” in his little race car photo. And he used to cry when anyone sang “happy birthday”, so that’s what he is doing in the birthday photo. Yes, I made his blue suit. Sorry, buddy!

In other news, hubby has to go and see the dermatologist on the 22nd May. Our GP thinks it might be a skin cancer spot. God I so hope not, even though I know skin cancer is very curable, I am worried about it. Fingers crossed.

Charlie the Service Dog has been paired with a young autistic boy named Tim. Read the sweet story about the tiny miracle that happened at their house.

 

You will recall that an exact phrase search “blogs by older men” turned up nothing interesting, unless what interests you is prostate cancer. “Blogs by older women” begins more promisingly.

There are so many creative blogs, wise blogs, beautiful blogs, funny blogs, informative and stimulating blogs. Blogs by young ladies with a depth and wisdom beyond their years. Blogs by older women who have great experience, insight, and wisdom. I honestly wouldn’t know where to start in handing out awards.

Gee whillikers, Susan, with all those adorable children and grandchildren, how do you find the time? Hey, how do you find the blogs? Continue reading »

 

The word “blog” is a portmanteau term for Web log or Weblog. In 1997 Jorn Barger, the keeper of Robot Wisdom, a Web site full of writings about James Joyce, artificial intelligence, and Judaism as racism (he’s reputedly a racist himself), coined the word “Weblog.” In 1999 Peter Merholz, the author of a Weblog called Peterme, split it in two like this?”We blog”?creating a word that could serve as either noun or verb. “Blog” was born.

Sarah Boxer in The New York Review of Books

 

They’re back, such as they are, so the quest for more of them can begin in earnest.

The excellent Andrea Mignolo , deviser of the Oulipo theme, is blameless. It’s other people’s themes leaving small black holes in the database. Friends, I have been to the database and looked upon it and returned.

Quello che non mi uccide mi fortifica – it sounds almost sensible in Italian.

 

We would be embarrassed here at the powerhouse Wordability tech centre except that (a) we are past the age of embarrassment and (b) techos don’t embarrass: they blame. We have SOSd the designer via the interesting Get Satisfaction website

Mar 092009
 

This blog is now in its second year, so it’s high time it sported a decent set of links. Those already there are fine; what’s missing, rather conspicuously, are blogs. But how to select those when your own blog is a miscellany and your Web-reading desultory?

New bloggers are always told to stake out a subject area and stay inside it. You become identified with a subject and a point-of-view; like-minded people link to you, and you to them, and everybody blogs happily ever after in their little patch of net. This set-up makes it hard for miscellaneous minds. Continue reading »

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