Pauline Baird Jones

  • When “Good” Body Shapers go “Bad”

    I have to say, it’s not easy being a muffin-top grandma in a “figure improving technology” world. Every year, my pants get more comfortable (there is a strong trend toward knit pants in my closet) and gravity ups its grip on pretty much everything. I’d been thinking of blogging about the slide toward comfort over…

  • Dewlaps, Wattles and Jowls, Oh My!

    The subject of jowls came up during a panel on blogging at ApolloCon. Okay, I might have brought it up when I was asked if I planned any sort of YouTube broadcasting, as part of my blogging. Um, no, I do not put these jowls on camera anymore than I can help. They are camera…

  • Emergency! Blog Re-Post Alert!

    I went to ApolloCon this weekend. Why is this an emergency in need of a blog re-post? Well, I usually write my blogs on Saturday, but Saturday, I’ll be at ApolloCon. When I sat down to try and write new material, my brain was like, “Girl, it’s not Saturday. I only think in blog posts…

  • Advice: The Good, the Bad, the Massively Wrong

    If you watch Big Bang Theory, then you know that Sheldon made some career changes last season when he felt stalled in his research. In that odd way information has of synching, I also saw a Facebook meme about bad advice possibly from Anne Rice (this was a Facebook meme) and a blog post from…

  • When The Pavement Ends Or How to Die “Right”

    Sometimes we choose to go off road and sometimes life takes off the pavement and bounces us around. Then it dumps us in a gully. We can try to get back on the familiar, the paved road, but Life Happens. The gully is now our new “road.” It’s called Big Life Changes. Or, if we’re…

  • Let it Soar! Let it Soar! Let it Soar!

      Many of you know that my hopes for Monday are usually centered around a vague hope that I don’t get hosed, but I loved this photo. It lifted me without me having to leave the house (a good thing for a hermit). In the morning, when sentience begins its slow return to my brain,…

  • The Unexpected

    Even though I wake up in the morning feeling like I got pooped over a cliff, I still expect good things from my days (once I get past that painful wake-up period). This causes me to question my own sanity, because most day do not end up like I expected. Sometimes it’s an unexpected place…

  • Images That Engage

    As an author, it sometimes bugs me that a picture is worth a thousand words (cuz it’s not easy puking a thousand words onto a page!), but I can acknowledge the power of a single image. This one from the hubs Flickr stream grabbed my attention and not just because she’s a girl with a…

  • Path to Adventure Or Tranquility?

    For some reason, paths—and pictures of paths—always catch my attention. I totally get why Hansel and Gretel headed into the woods. When I was a little girl and my parents took us up into the mountains for the day (or night—not as fun, IMHO), we’d spill out of the truck and head for the first…

  • Mind Worm! My Chicken Fat Flashback

    When I first heard the “Chicken Fat” song during an iPhone commercial (to promote a health app), I think my brain flinched. I kind of frowned and thought, I know that song, but from where? I kind of shrugged it off, assuming that it had been one of those weird pop hits back in the…