Betsy Horvath's Blog, page 20
April 9, 2013
Here Comes Spring!
Here at the Palatial Horvath Estate, the catkins on the pussy willows are full to bursting, the forsythia have started to bloom with golden splendor, and the robins are busy building nests in both the forsythia and the pussy willow. Yes, okay, the winter juncos are still here, but the red-winged blackbirds are showing their [...]
April 7, 2013
Strangled By Books
I haven’t had time to blog this past week because I’ve started to sell books. I don’t mean I’ve become a bookseller. I mean I’ve started to sell my own books. I had a lot of books. A LOT of books. At the time HOLD ME was published, one of the fun facts I gave [...]
March 28, 2013
10 Bad Things About Blogging
Hello, Blogosphere. Hey. Did you know tomorrow is our two year anniversary? Sure. Do you care? No. What if I told you I didn’t want to blog anymore? Please. You won’t stop. You were practically pooping sunbeams and rainbows in your last post. I was not! Yeah, you were. Then there’s the fact you have [...]
March 26, 2013
10 Good Things About Blogging Regularly
Wow. I can hardly believe it, but as of this Friday I will have been blogging regularly for two years. I know! It’s crazy, right? Yeah, I’ve missed days here and there, and I had a time in the fall last year where I didn’t give my blog much time, but for the most part [...]
March 21, 2013
Be Careful What You Give Up
I know not everyone will relate to this, but I’ve made it a practice to give up things for Lent. Every year I pick one or two things I consider to be important, and try to give them up for the seven weeks between Ash Wednesday and Easter. I’ve done this for years, with varying [...]
March 19, 2013
Who We Think We Are
It seems to me that we are all two people – who we think we are and who we really are. Who we think we are is based on a lot of things. It’s based on how other people have seen us, and how we’ve been treated in the past. It’s based on who we’d [...]
March 17, 2013
Life Happens
It is one of life’s bitter ironies that just when you think you’re moving forward, stuff happens. In fact, I believe stuff does not happen UNTIL you feel that you are finally making progress. I think stuff sits off to the side, chuckling to itself, watching you. Then, just when you start to get all [...]
March 7, 2013
Digital First: The Socratic Dialogue. Sort Of.
Hello, Blogosphere! It’s good to see you! Why am I here again? Welllllll, because you love me. *blink, blink* Right. That must be it. No, no. *chuckle* I asked you to come here today because I had a thought. ERMAHGERD! Erm…Oh. *chuckle chuckle* You’re so darned trendy, Blogosphere. You betcha. So, what’s up? Time’s a-wastin’. [...]
March 5, 2013
Making A Start
After I moved into the Palatial Horvath Estate, I was intimidated by my closets for thirteen years. Sad, but true. See, I wanted to organize them, but I had so much stuff jammed in there I didn’t know how to begin. Year after year it kept getting worse…and worse…and worse. It was overwhelming. So what [...]
March 3, 2013
No Rush
Sometimes I look at what I’ve done in my life as opposed to all of the things I still want to do. That’s almost always a mistake. It’s really easy for me to think I have accomplished very little. Then I judge myself and tell myself I should have gotten a lot more done [...]
