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15 Mar

Tag–you’re it!

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, humor, life, parenthood, sci-fi, writing. Tagged: ADD, blog, carnival, lawyer, tag, truth. 4 Comments

Every once in awhile, when I’m examining this blog, to see what I have to offer, to determine what else I could add to make the site more useful, I read over my tag cloud.
I know that WordPress assigns the size of the words depending on how often you use the tags. So clearly autism [...]

28 Jan

Blogs: time vampires

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, life, parenthood, walkabout, writing. Tagged: blog, blog carnival, community, diary, Facebook, fibromyalgia, Interwebz, Myspace, network, promotion, romance, social network, twitter, Wordpress. 9 Comments

Back in the day, I had a diary. (No, children, we did not carve words into stone tablets in those days. Really.) So my original understanding of a blog was that it was just like a diary. Except on the computer, and open to anyone to read.
In the past year, I’ve found that a blog [...]

14 Jul

Summer, we love thee

Posted by awalkabout in life, walkabout. Tagged: blog, Elysium, fibromyalgia, garden, hit, Lyrica, medieval fair, summer, woods. 10 Comments

Greetings Ye Lords and Ladies, Ye gentles and Peasants, and Welcome to Ye Olde Ode to Summer!
Still recovering from the Medieval Faire, as you might note. That was a delight except for the 46 minute thunderstorm right in the middle. But we met some charming people very close up, as we huddled inside the faire [...]

12 May

Still walking those streets

Posted by awalkabout in autism, humor, life, sci-fi, walkabout, writing. Tagged: agent, author, autistic, blog, conference, editor, fiction, Firefly, Firefox, literary, NaNoWriMo, network, Pennwriters, seminar, writing, YA. 10 Comments

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” — [...]

1 May

Getting around

Posted by awalkabout in autism, humor, life, parenthood, walkabout, writing. Tagged: Asperger's, autistic, blog, carnival, Dessert, kilroy, soup to nuts, spectrum, writing. 4 Comments

While some may use a blog as a place to just spew all that awful emotional crap that you don’t feel your loved ones deserve to enjoy, most of us hope that our blog will be read by others, and the more “others” the better. This is one of the reasons to engage in the [...]

13 Apr

The write stuff

Posted by awalkabout in divorce, life, walkabout, writing. Tagged: agent, author, blog, conference, editor, manuscript, meet and greet, novel, Oates, Pennwriters, story, workshop, writer. 5 Comments

Next month, I’m going to the Pennwriters’ annual Writing Conference. It’s a fairly big deal, some 450 writers, editors and others, our keynote speaker being Joyce Carol Oates, and agents and editors falling out the cracks to find their Next Big Thing.
Of course, I’ve signed up to pitch an editor, attend the critique sessions for [...]

29 Mar

The autisms are coming, the autisms are coming!

Posted by awalkabout in autism, humor, life, parenthood, walkabout. Tagged: Asperger's, autism awareness, blog, carnival, lawyer, spectrum, spring. 3 Comments

Okay, that’s a little graphic.
But as you may have noticed in my sidebar, I’ve signed up, along with a bunch of other folk, to blog about autism awareness in April. Which is autism awareness month. In case we MISSED it. Autism, that is. Hey honey where is that autism? I know we just had it [...]

29 Dec

What’s Awalkabout?

Posted by awalkabout in life, walkabout. Tagged: blog, friends, rite of passage. Leave a Comment

Wikipedia defines “walkabout” as an Australian pidgin term referring to the belief that Australian aborigines “go walkabout” at the age of thirteen in the wilderness for six months as a rite of passage.
What’s that to do with me?
I’ve considered this process of blogging as a rite of passage in a way, moving into a new [...]