Kindle 2 Review
May 10
My Kindle 2 has arrived and I have to say, I absolutely love it! First impressions go a long ways and the packaging that arrived from Amazon was reminiscent of the many lovely gadgets I have opened from my good friends at Apple. Sleek black and white packaging with liberal usage of fonts to give it that literary quality. I immediately plugged in the Kindle 2 to charge. About 2 hours later...
Going Kindle
Apr 12
As many of you all know, I am an avid reader. As such, I am extremely emotionally attached to my books. They represent periods of my life, meetings with favorite authors, lazy reads on vacation, times of trouble, in essence… they are old friends. So what on earth has possessed me to go wireless with my reading habits? To be honest, I’m running out of room. There are piles of...
New Photo Gallery
Feb 14
So I have finally gotten around to integrating Gallery2 into my blog. It’s a cool little open source application for sharing photos. This new tool gives me a lot of options to share my photographs and such with family and friends. To get to the photo album you can do one of the following: 1. Click the photos tab on the top navigation menu. 2. Click on any photo I have included in a...
The Best Friend a Girl Ever Had
Dec 21
It was the summer of 1997 when he came into my life, the best friend a girl ever had. There were other little golden retriever bundles of joy at the breeder but the second he tumbled in my direction, tripping over his over-sized feet and rolled over on his back, I was captured. The breeder warned me that he had a bent tail from falling out of the birth canal and as a result he was the runt of...
Daddy’s Girl
Dec 20
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went “home”. I put this in quotations, since like many of you out there, my parents are divorced and this sense of “home” has never been exactly the same. You see, I grew up in Florida and my family lives in Kentucky, which for those of you who haven’t been there is effectively another planet. It’s beautiful but definitely...
