Pauline Baird Jones

  • I Was Afraid of the Dark

    Actually, I still am sort of afraid of the dark. If I let loose the dogs of my imagination? Yeah, totally terrified. When the sun goes down, I have to keep those dogs on a tight leash. Otherwise they render a good night’s sleep impossible, either by keeping me from sleep or invading my dreams.…

  • My “No Formal Resolutions” Zone

    When I was a little girl, all the new year meant to me was that it would soon be time to go back to school. I didn’t like school that much. Resolutions? I don’t remember resolving to do anything except maybe play more. I also don’t remember when I was “introduced” to the notion of…

  • My (Mental) Writing Space Examined

    So, yesterday I reached the halfway point in the NaBloPoMo month long blogging challenge which means today marks the more-than-halfway-there point. I’m on the downhill side! (I grew up with mountains, so downhill is good!) And it is Saturday. The weekend. So I’m rejoicing here on my blog with an awesome picture, courtesy of WyoJones…

  • When Change is More Magical Than Scary 🙂

    Sometimes change is scary. Sometimes it is magical. I prefer magical change to the scary kind. The scary kind feels life threatening, even though mostly it isn’t. Sometimes it feels like the above photo. Sailing out on this golden sea toward something not quite known, but it doesn’t matter that I don’t know, because I…

  • Being a Grownup…

    Do you ever get tired of being a grownup? I actually found myself envying the grand babies. They cry or pucker up to cry and we all go, “Ahhhh, look how cute!” I am not cute when I pucker up or cry. In fact, the cute train passed my station a long time ago (though…

  • It’s August…and yeah, dang….

    “They” say you’re not supposed to talk about the weather, but it’s AUGUST. There are seasons and then there’s AUGUST. August weather. It’s almost like it is its own season. The reality is that no matter how hot and humid it has been in June and July, it WILL be worse in August. Always. Does…

  • Tribbles Aren’t Trouble if You’re Not a Klingon

    I think my all-time favorite, original Star Trek episode is “The Trouble with Tribbles” one. And of course, I also loved “Trials and Tribble-ations” from Deep Space Nine. I love the quirk of something so small and so cuddly not only defeating the (then bad guy) Klingons, but also, um, er, altering their, er, visages…

  • The Grandma Project – Help!

    Sometime in the next month, I’m going to become a grandmother for the first time. Twice. Yup. Twins. You probably know this because I’ve only mentioned it a few thousand times here, on Twitter and FaceBook and to random strangers who make the mistake of looking at me for one second. Yup, the hermit is…

  • Pauline Baird Jones: Barbarians and Tap Dancing?

    When I noticed on Pinterest that a lot of bare-chested guys were getting re-pinned, I asked the hubs if he could help me out. And he did. Isn’t he great? LOL Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, I’ll get to what this blog is really about. Tap dancing. And ballet and tumbling. But mostly…

  • Dancing With Fear

    My blog post about the book Becoming a Writer, called Daring to Act on Your Dreams sparked a small, comments discussion about fear, that prompted me to recall a wonderful essay on the subject called “Fear, I Embrace You” by Louise Plummer. (Thoughts of a Grasshopper, p. 71) I can’t recall when I first read this essay.…