Communities

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is to find five Weekly Geeks that you don’t know, visit their blog, then write about what you have in common with the Geeks you’ve found. In her about me, Alyssa at The Shady Glade said she loves to watch movies and go to musicals, but is too broke to [...]

In August I read and reviewed Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, a nonfiction, memoirish book about the world of competitive Scrabble.  I loved the book, so when I heard there was a documentary about a similar topic, I started to look for it.  I came across it at the video store yesterday and jumped at [...]

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge is to write your own holiday gift giving guide of books.  Dewey asked participants to think about the books you read, come up with categories for the books, and post a guide with blurbs about the books and categories you’ve chosen. I’m going to do my book recommendations based on [...]

Do ever have books that, as much as you want to be engaged with them, you just can’t seem to make the jump to get into it?  The topic, while interesting, just doesn’t grab you today?  That’s how I’ve been feeling trying to read Niche Envy by Joseph Turrow.  I really want to be into [...]

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) to find some fun facts about authors.  I’ve been doing something like this for about a month where I do a post about an author on their birthday.  So far I’ve written about E. E. Cummings, Buzz Bissinger, and Margaret [...]

I was at home in the Twin Cities this weekend to do some volunteering for Youth in Government, a program I participated in when I was in high school that I credit as having helped me develop the most when I was a teenager.  Over five years, YIG taught me the value of political engagement, the skill [...]

Over the last week or so I’ve been asking for comments and opinions about a variety of topics and gotten a ton of responses from other bloggers.  I love that so much!  I figured an update post was in order, in case other people are as negligent about going back to see updated conversations when [...]

This week’s Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) to dig into the archives of our fellow Weekly Geeks.  We’re supposed to choose some blogs, look through some of the oldest posts, then write a post featuring the blogs we’ve read over the week.  We’re also supposed to read [...]

This week I haven’t done much reading because I’ve been very busy writing.  As I worked, I found myself more and more annoyed with the process of constantly writing and rewriting.  I thought this would subside after I turned in my group project on Friday, but this frustration has reared its ugly head again today.  [...]