Holiday Hiatus Concluded: Blogging Resumes with “The Best Birthday Gift”
A heartwarming story about a unique birthday gift. Spoiler alert: one of The Grill-Meister books about space and time travel got to ride in a SpaceX rocket!
Category: Blogging
gentle things and small moments (a poem, revisited)
Everyone touches the world in their own way. Making my own tiny imprint through this blog, I need to balance the dark with the light, the yin with the yang. This post and poem are gentle and positive.
Killing the Writer’s Block Beast: Back to Full Blog Mode for Me
I’m killing the writer’s block beast with brusque, intentional keyboard strokes and this short confessional post.
The Randomness of You, the Randomness of Me – It’s a Gestalt Thing
It started out with cooking and recipes as the Glover Gardens Cookbook and grew into something else, something more, something unexpected.
Speed and Quality Don’t Always Go Together
A blogging mistake prompts a mea culpa and lessons learned confession.
Breaking Radio Silence
Physical isolation and all of the uncertainty brought about by Covid-19’s impact to our entire existence is the new normal, and it’s time to rejoin the social world.
Clicks, Cadence, and the Metrics that Really Matter (via the “Goat Cheese Thing”)
The only metric that means anything to me is to have touched another person or two in some way.
gentle things and small moments (a poem)
Everyone touches the world in their own way. Making my own tiny imprint through this blog, I want to write more about the gentle things in life.
The Wonderfuls (The People You Meet Along the Way)
Meet a new addition to my list of The Wonderfuls, Jon the Storyteller, who will be a guest blogger on Glover Gardens.
Reflections: No Keep Out Signs Here
Reflections on an open mind, a growth mindset and an open heart. An open heart is the hardest.
Weetabix, a Haiku for Jason
A person could love Weetabix in that way you love the familiar, the comforting, the stuff of childhood, the stuff your mother made you eat until you forgot your first reaction to it and it became a welcome part of your everyday life and then later, the fabric of childhood memories and the feeling that all that is right with the world.
Santa Monica Pier Seagull’s Stories – Can You Help?
A very expressive seagull at the Santa Monica pier deserves a caption.
How did I make that last time? Oh yeah, it’s in the Glover Gardens Cookbook (blog)!
Recipes for a potluck party at Glover Gardens, straight from the Glover Gardens blog.
Sunshine Blogger Nominations and Q&A
The Glover Gardens response to the nomination from the A. JoAnn Blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I like that name: sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
