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Can the Saturday Six this week be the Saturday Ten? There were two posts from last week I forgot to post. Yes, I know that would have made last week Saturday Eight…I am either going to have to make this Saturday Sixteen, or you guys are going to have to stop writing such great posts!
So let me start with the two from last week that I missed.
[1] Jennifer of the Daily Connoisseur (who was also part of yesterday’s Chic Friends) wrote a wonderful last week about an evening at her Parisian neighbor’s house. An impromptu dinner of fresh oysters. After seeing the seafood and oyster selection at the Waterbar a few weeks ago and then reading her post, “Oyster Party at Madam Bohemienne’s” I am longing for a good basket of oysters with a hunk of baguette and wine!
[2] I discovered Bill Campbell when he wrote a blog post about his toddler daughter, Pooh, loving Bollywood, and I have been reading him ever since which has been a long time. I read and lurk at his blog Tome of the Unknown Writer. I say lurk because I don’t comment very often, maybe once a month. He is so darn smart that I feel like I can’t contribute anything more than “wow!”. (That reminds me of something won’t go into it here, check out my P.S. at the end of this post.) Bill is a published author who writes about politics, writing, black history and his daughter. I have a natural attraction to writer’s blogs, because well, that write so well and I am envious! Last week Bill wrote a great post that I wanted to share. In “Be Thankful For What You Got,” Bill blogs about being snowed in (he lives in Washington, D.C.) while taking care of his daughter because his wife is away volunteering in Haiti.
Those were the two from last week, now on to this week!
[3] It is easy to see that all bloggers struggle with writing, but I think it is how you deal with it, or share about it that separates the good writers from the bad. I loved Mo of The Daily Snark’s post called “On Writing (Or In My Case…Not).” It is witty, brilliant, not too self-effacing, it’s honest and I like it.
[4] Polite society dictates certain behaviors that don’t always rub you the right way. For instance, saying ” No” when you don’t want to do something and a million other things that most of us just do otherwise we fell like we have to justify ourselves and our behavior. In “the perils of justifying yourself,” Danielle of White Hot Truth wrote a thought provoking post on this topic. P.S. she also has a great line of cards, in fact I gave some of her French Kiss Life cards away during my 17 days of Christmas craziness.
[5] Amy of “God, I Love Paris” shared a wonderful animated poem this week that was very poignant. The poem is about only being able to have 2 out of 3 things, and when I think about it, its is scarily true!
[6] Besides wanting oysters right now, I know that soon it will be sardine season in France. There is a special sardine, the young ones, that you can only get around March/April. They taste amazing. I want to be in France to be able to buy them in the stores. They are only on the shelves for a few weeks and I can taste them in my mouth. However, I do also love Spanish and Portuguese sardines and I will now have to go on a pilgrimage to this store that Heather of Heather on her Travels shared. It is on the list!
Do you get tired of my obsession with France and Paris? I hope not because that is part of my essence. And as such, I can’t help falling in love with the many posts on this topic on the many Paris/France blogs I read. Here are four:
[7] I just started reading Kari’s blog LitWit and I love it. She just got back from a trip to Paris and shares her feelings about being home and a wonderful poem that I had never seen, but completely adore called, “In Paris With You.”
[8] Kathi of Everyday Adventures of a Curious Gal does great photo montages which she often accompanies with a poem. This week she shared a collection from another blog, and it had two things I loved: Paris and the color red! It is not her work specifically, she is sharing another blogs work, but I appreciate her bringing it to my attention!
[9] Hannah of 2000 Streets blogs from Paris but wrote a post this week about being on vacation in Nice. I have only been to Nice one time when my family went on a European vacation. My family lived in Madrid, Spain and we did a highlight tour through Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Nice and Monte Carlo were hit in the same day and I only remember a few things. Would love to go back some day and Hannah’s post only reinforces that feeling.
[10] The Paris Blog hosted a great post on a new movement in French cuisine. In “French Cuisine – Stuck in the Past,” the author talks about the struggle similar to an identity crisis that French cuisine is suffering right now.
Well that’s it for this week. Got any posts you want to share from the last week? Please do!
And now for my totally unrelated P.S.
I read 300+ blogs – crazy, but true. On one of the blogs I read, which I cannot re-find (and it’s driving me INSANE), was the most adorable widget that I want for Misadventures. It was a widget that sat at the end of each post and it said something like, “I read this post, loved it, but don’t feel like commenting.” and then the reader clicked it and the blogger knew that someone liked what they read but didn’t want to comment. Has anyone seen that? Is it you? Please share!
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I would love to get that widget !
Thanks for the mention – I bought some of those sardines as a Christmas present for my Dad – I’ll have to ask him if they tasted as good on the inside of the tim as they looked from the outside