http://thegoddessblogs.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:13:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hot Cop and I had our one year anniversary yesterday. It was a hectic day for us as my kids were down for spring break, I'm on deadline and was writing like a fiend, and (worse of all) he had to work the midnight shift. Bowing to the fates, we decided ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/13/so-what-do-you-get-a-man-who-has-everything-including-me/ J. D. Salinger died recently.  J. D. Salinger, for those who don't know, wrote The Catcher in The Rye. Most school kids are given the opportunity (talk about diplomatic speech--it's assigned reading!) to read The Catcher in The Rye sometime during their education. It was assigned reading for me when ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/12/reading-readiness/ I love to play the lottery. I don't do it often and I never spend more than one dollar, but when I do, I spend DAYS dreaming of all the things I'd buy/have/get if I won. I get a lot of happiness out of that dollar! So, for grins, let's play ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/11/its-the-lottery-quiz-game/ Last December, I was browsing craigslist and came across an ad that made my heart swoon. It was for a Quaker parrot. Immediately I told everyone (with a link, natch) "this is what I want for Christmas!"  Gil and I talked about it, we did research, and I emailed back ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/10/love-unexpected/ Like millions of other people, I'm a fan of American Idol, although I don't usually tune in until the screechers have been banished from public view and the cream of the crop has been chosen to compete for the TV audience as well as the judges. Besides the singing, I ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/08/psst-tell-me-your-secrets/ I'm one of those who prefers a physical book with paper I can touch and smell.  I've never read a book on my computer (unless you count my own) and the single book I placed on my iphone in case I was somewhere and didn't have a book, has never ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/08/to-ebook-or-not-to-ebook/ We're having a moment of silence for this week's FROS (For Refreshment Only Sunday), fitness model David Kimmerle: (whispering) ... happy fros! ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/07/shhhhh/ You know how some days you wake up, the pretty yellow and black bird outside your window is singing, you come downstairs and realize you really need to do some housework, you sit down to check your email, and then realize you forgot something? Something important? Something you just can't ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/06/one-of-those-days/ While I was reading the News Of The Weird the other day, I came across the following famous last words: “A million dollars is a lot of money to pay for a whore," were the last words of multimillionaire French banker Edouard Stern, according to his girlfriend, Cecile Brossard, who took ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/05/famous-last-words/ Today I am all about websites.  I am redesigning mine this spring and I am wondering, in this age of social networking sites, what the function of an author website is.  Back in the day--and by that I mean maybe five years ago--the thing to do was to have a ... http://thegoddessblogs.com/index.php/2010/03/04/help-me-promote-me-to-you/