If you want to check up on someone, chat, touch base or just hear someone’s voice, you make a phone call, right? If you need to send your flight itinerary, confirm dates and times for meetings, or send an e-vite — there’s e-mail. If you want to send a quick message: “I’m home”, “Just left. [...]
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There’s the phone, e-mail, texting, fb and then there are postcards
Posted in Art and Architecture, Family Life, Media and Technology, Travels, tagged audience with the Pope, communication, e-mail, facebook, phone, postcards, surprise, texting, While in Rome, wish you were here on May 27, 2012 | 31 Comments »
A-B-C
Posted in Connections, Media and Technology, tagged ABC's, blogging awards, gratitude, personal writing on April 12, 2012 | 51 Comments »
Dianna at These Days of Mine and MJ at Emjay and them presented me with a new blog award, the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) award recently . Thank you, I am honored that you feel my blog has awesome content! When accepting the ABC award , the recipient is supposed to list 26 things about [...]
The Golden Hour
Posted in Connections, Media and Technology, Texas, The Country, The Great Outdoors, tagged awards, golden hour, gratitude, life, personal writing, sunset, Sunshine Award on March 1, 2012 | 54 Comments »
My husband Rick went to the farm last weekend to fix the mower. The grass will be growing all too soon, friends! He took these photos at what my blogging friends would call the golden hour. Dianna at These Days of Mine and Theresa at TexWiseGirl have posted some gorgeous photos about this time of [...]
Winners vs Losers
Posted in Art and Architecture, Family Life, Media and Technology, tagged Golden Globe, life, Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt, Oscar, screenwriter, winners vs. losers on February 26, 2012 | 56 Comments »
Perhaps you remember a movie that came out in 2005, “Little Miss Sunshine.” You probably won’t be surprised I was drawn to the title. I do like good news. I do like to dwell on emphasize the positive. I do like daisies and sunflowers and sunshiny stuff. And, I do enjoy children. Now I wasn’t [...]
What I Don’t Want for Christmas
Posted in Family Life, Media and Technology, Parenting, Slightly political, tagged Grinch, phones, Technology on December 1, 2011 | 46 Comments »
Warning: Beware this is the story of Georgette the Grinch who waged war in Technoville. You may want to skip this post and wait for Sunday’s: “What I Do Want for Christmas.” I remember phone calls on the family phone… the kind that you dialed and answered from a black rotary dial phone. Then there [...]
A Surprise Award
Posted in Connections, Media and Technology, Uncategorized, tagged award, blog, versatile blogger on June 13, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I am very excited to say that a fellow awesome blogger, of The Self-styled Life , has nominated me for the “Versatile Blogger Award“! There it is! Like The Self-styled Life, I was not too familiar with the award, so as per her post: this is an award given among bloggers to other new or recently [...]
ANGEL: An Opportunity for Instructional Design
Posted in Media and Technology, Teachable moments, tagged personal writing, significant learning, ANGEL, ANGEL Learning Systems, photostories, Fink's Taxonomy, flashdrive, education, online learning, hybrid class, foreign language learning, classroom, Student, Albert Einstein, Chichicastenango, Twitter, Technology, Foreign language on June 5, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Now that spring term is over and summer faces us, I encourage my friends who teach (foreign languages) on the college level to consider an online component to your class. And, I encourage my students to consider taking a technology-based class. If you’re in my blogging neighborhood, this is what I do. I never teach [...]
2010 in review
Posted in Media and Technology, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If [...]
What I Don’t Want for Christmas©
Posted in Birthdays and Holidays, Connections, Family Life, Media and Technology, Parenting, Slightly political, tagged call waiting, cell phones, computer, group call, isolation, long distance, modesty, pager, portable phone, rotary dial phone, touchtone phone on December 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I remember phone calls. I remember the kind that you answered from a black rotary dial phone. Then there was the push button phone still connected to a wall jack. “Georgette, …telephone!” someone would yell through the house and I would come running to get the call. Then, perhaps there was someone in the room [...]
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“Vous avez des postes aujourd’hui”©
Posted in Connections, Media and Technology, Spiritual Things, Teachable moments, Travels, tagged "Il est trop tard", "In the Summertime", "Le métèque", "Ma liberté", Acts 8:26-40, Billie Holiday, blogging, blues, comment, correspondence, e-mail, facebook, faith, family, France, French, friends, Georges Moustaki, letters, love, mail, Mungo Jerry, Paris, personal writing, post, sister, solitude, the blues, travel, trip on July 10, 2011 | 17 Comments »
The sweetest sound while living as a student in France was the voice of Sister Marie Therese announce “Vous avez une poste aujourd-hui.” (You have mail today.) Sometimes I would look around quickly to check for sure she was really talking to me. Assured that she was, I would go to my box and there [...]
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