Category Archives: BLOGGING

I don’t write in here when I’m really down anymore. I have found that while I used to write into Word first, then cut and paste into Spinning, I have been writing directly into the posting form for the past … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Amazing, this weblogging phenomenon. A couple posts ago I mentioned J-Walk’s entry on the Easter Bunny, somewhat sacrilegious, but to some humorous. For many weeks I have been trying to think of a book I read many, many years ago … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is Spinning’s six-month anniversary today: 666 posts (must change this by this post, or is the devil still with me?) 478 comments (many of them mine, because I try to be polite and so, respond) 20,817 hits (thanks to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am wondering if prolificality often results in a preponderance of nonsense, and maybe I should have given it up for Lent. Maybe it is even potentially evil, as when abused to produce lies or gossip. Or if it steals … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy to see that Michele is actively back on Michele’s Daily Writing Exercises. It’s about time! Continue reading →

Well this is interesting. Maybe a sign from the heavens, but my About Me Page is a total blank. Either I pissed off a higher authority or, and this is more likely, I screwed up the code again. When will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lynn at Reflections in d Minor just made mention of the fact that Spinning is a Literary OR a Personal Journal. This is one of the things that I have noticed since the beginning, and waffled back and forth about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From God of the Machine, this has to be one of the best mission statements about blogging I’ve seen, and one that I aspire to follow: “Culling my readers to a select few since June, 2002” Continue reading →

After spending a good part of the last three days attempting to redesign Talespinning, I think—am not quite sure, yet—I may have almost gotten something accomplished. It was terribly frustrating. I simply wanted to change colors and add a new … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are so many wonderful weblogs to keep up with, and so many amazing people who write them. They run the gamut from politics to culture to recipes and ruminations, but all, without real exception, contain the personality of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to Anne at Fishbucket, and as she implies, this is one site to be envious of, in design as well as content. Check it out, and click on parts of the black thingie on the top left, especially the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well that’s about all I’m going to do for now–after almost the whole day and part of late last night spent fiddling around with the logo, colors, and this drawing that I just can’t use because it was scribbled on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, Good Morning! I’m sort of spinning my wheels this morning trying to change the banner here. I’m due to get frustrated very shortly and give up for a while. At that point, I will go back to writing instead … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“writer’s blogs and friends, and finding organization without labeling; Blogshare and my belief in capitalistic pigdom” Every now and then I go through the links listed here and cull out inactive links, or move things around a bit, usually resulting … Continue reading → Continue reading →