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Why I don’t blog much these days (part 3)

This is Cordelia at the ice rink, where the three big girls and I have been spending quite a bit of our time lately. Skating is great exercise, and great fun, but it eats into my writing time.
As if I didn’t have time management problems enough, my husband and I are going to take up [...]

Posted 06 February 2010 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Why I don’t blog much these days (part 2)

At the moment, I can be thin or I can be interesting, but I cannot possibly be both.

Posted 29 January 2010 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Why I don’t blog much these days (part 1)

This is Portia’s new hobby.
It’s only fun if she has on her clothes and, ideally, her shoes as well.
Therefore, anytime I fill or drain the bathtub, I need to stay in the room, or post a guard.
Regrettably, the guards (the older girls) are the sort that would get themselves and their fellow soldiers killed [...]

Posted 11 January 2010 † Brigette Russell § Parenthood § Personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Is he or isn’t he? Only his bartender knows for sure.

I just discovered another very cool thing WordPress 2.9 lets you do — embed video right into your blog just by pasting the You Tuble URL. You don’t have to use the “insert video” icon, or even paste in the embed code. Just the URL text, right into the post.
I know, I know. [...]

Posted 31 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Just because I can

I have nothing in particular to say about Raphael’s School of Athens, but uploaded it just because I like it, and just because I can.
If I was going to write something interesting, it would be about my insane fellow countrymen who think we should all have to take our shoes off to get on planes, [...]

Posted 31 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Why I am so clever

The post title is pinched from a chapter title in one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s books.  I cannot remember which one, because I had time either to look it up or pinch and upload a picture of philosophy’s bad boy, but not both, so I chose the latter.
And yes, that means that I can now [...]

Posted 29 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Personal § Santa Fe ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , ,

So you think I’m too young to use a knife?

Go ahead and try to take it…out of my cold, dead hands.
Obviously, I figured out how to get a new photo onto the blog, since Portia was a little bitty baby when my technical difficulties began.  I still can’t upload pictures to the blog, but I can upload them to Flickr or Picasa and then [...]

Posted 18 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Am I blue

You’ve seen this picture before.  You’re not seeing a new one because I have been unable to upload new images to my blog for many, many months now, and it’s really got me, well, blue.
It used to be so easy.  I’d press the “insert an image” icon, and then click the “Choose files to upload” [...]

Posted 15 December 2009 † Brigette Russell § Personal ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,