Some random thoughts going through my head today: *I’m so glad there’s toilet paper in our work bathroom; I was tired of the chafing of paper towels. *My days go by so much better now that Matt wakes up early with me. Because of our differing schedules, he used to still be asleep when I …
Amazon.Com Giveaway Winner!
*Drumroll please* And the winner is……SAM from http://samnhal.blogspot.com/ “The Married Couple” Thanks for following, Sam! And stay tuned all you faithful readers out there, for the next 200 posts 🙂
Poetry Sunday: Peace of Wild Things
Photo by Matthew Meidell The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty …
His/Hers: Gardens
Hers His Why yes, that is indeed a rock garden. Plus one avocado pit.
Change It Up Challenge: Couponing
I’ll start out this post by saying this: I never in a million years thought I’d be the crazy coupon lady. You know the lady I’m talking about—with her two carts full of groceries and her stack of coupons as thick as a slice of Texas french toast who takes about an hour to check …
Weekly Writing – Concrete
Back when I was still in creative writing classes, we did an idea that was something like this: take any regular, ordinary, “boring” topic and write an informal essay on it (not the stuffy, dry kind of essay that we all got assigned in middle school–the kind of essay that just gives you the liberty …
Faithful Reader Giveaway!!
Hey everyone! In honor of my 200th post on Autodidactic Ambitions (that would be this post, mind you), I am going to be the oh-so-generous person that I am and give away a $15 gift certificate to Amazon.com to one lucky reader of Autodidactic Ambitions. All you have to do to enter is:1. Follow this blog2. …
Change It Up: Audiobooks
Some of you may be wondering how a book-a-holic like me hasn’t managed to try out audiobooks yet. Well, I’ll give you three reasons: (1) expensive, (2) I’m a faster reader than they are, and (3) I didn’t want to get so distracted by a thrilling story that I end up back-ending the car in front …