Pauline Baird Jones

  • Scraping the Moss Off My Brain – NaBloPoMo

    I got an email about NaBloPoMo from BlogHer. What is it? Basically it is a big blog party. And an invitation to push yourself a little. To blog every day. Whoa. So far, on good weeks, I might manage 3x a week. (I went back to twice a week for summer/tush kicking.) And they want…

  • What I Learned from Falling on my Butt

    The photograph has nothing to do with the topic of this blog post. I picked it because it made me laugh. And because there are no pictures of me falling on my butt (thank goodness). First I’ll set the scene. I was in New York with my daughter. I made a rookie mistake of wearing…

  • “To Endure is Greater than to Dare…”

    “To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out the hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it- who can say this is not greatness? ” William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) I was walking past the hubs computer and this photo caught my eye, so I waited…

  • I Talk to the Trees…but they are in a Meeting. No really.

    Wishing for a Wormhole Friday is all about trees. Do you remember Clint Eastwood singing about talking to the trees? (Ouch alert before you click through! Seriously, think about it. Okay, here’s the link.) I love trees. There were a lot of them to love when we moved to New Orleans, but what I did…

  • 3 Things I Learned Living in New Orleans

    When we moved to New Orleans a lot of years ago, I didn’t expect to fall in love with the Big Easy. I grew up in Wyoming and New Orleans is pretty much the opposite of it in almost every way. I did expect to find it fascinating and I was not disappointed. It was…