This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
Today’s Word of the Day prompt is “Redolent”. HERE is a poem Judy wrote in April, 2014. I like that the first comment on it, made by blogger Ogginblog, was “That’s so redolent of the Americas.” What do you think?
This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
Today’s Ragtag prompt is “Blue”. HERE is a poem Judy wrote in May, 2013. It’s called “Give Me Blue”. Seems like it fits.
This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
The Daily Addiction‘s prompt today is “Enigma”. HERE‘s a fun post by Judy on the subject from October, 2013.
This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
Word of the Day‘s prompt today is “Abiding”. I think a line in one of Judy’s poems from December, 2014, qualifies: “Picasso simply can’t abide”. You can read what Picasso can’t abide, and why Dorothy Parker is a good sport in this two-for-one post of Judy’s HERE.
This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
Today’s Ragtag prompt is “Zest”. I love the poem Judy wrote in September, 2014, which is filled with zest (and the actual word, “zest”). You can read her piece HERE, still zesty after all these years.
This is ForgottenMan subbing for Judy while she and her nephew Ryan are traveling in Mexico. She asked if I’d like to reblog some of her old posts in response to the various daily challenges here. I decided to only look at her posts from 2013-14, her first two years of blogging here.
Today’s FOWC prompt is “Love”. I’ve selected what Judy called an “un-love” poem she penned for NaPoWriMo that year. You can read the delightful piece HERE.
Hola to Judy’s readers. Some of you know me here as okcforgottenman, Judy’s (mostly) behind-the-scenes/curtain techie, keeper of secrets, and spotter of misspellings. I also like watching her blog stats daily as I try to figure out what specifically draws viewers/readers in. A few minutes ago I saw that someone out there in cyberspace today found Judy’s blog by typing in an interesting keyword search into some search engine:
In case your screen is too small (or, like me, your eyes are too mature), here’s a closer view:
Might this yield further insight as to how Judy acquires more readers?
Judy? –
(Judy speaking now.) Well, over-60 female viewers might agree that we need to find our thrills where we can find them and a little fermented sugar cane mixed with a cola beverage seems a pretty socially acceptable way to find our bliss. Do you agree, ladies?
As for forgottenman, you have no idea how many things in stats I would miss if it were not for him. He pointed out a milestone in views reached yesterday, has found reviews of my poems in a New Delhi newspaper and he was the one who spotted the article in a British online news magazine that did a comparison between my stats and Donald Trump’s. Now how unlikely is that and how would I have ever known? Nice to have someone backing me up on my blog. He writes a pretty mean blog, as well–quality-wise if not quantity-wise. You should check it out HERE.
He is also the one responsible for fishing your comments out of Spam, where they have unfairly been filed by WordPress. So let’s give him a big round of applause. okcfm, I’d like to see you do another guest blog on the weirdest search engine terms you’ve seen on both of our blogs.. and challenge others to check theirs out for oddities to share as well.
Ball’s in your court, forgottenman. –Judy
Hi, y’all. I’m okcforgottenman, posting on Judy’s behalf. She’s been without internet all day, but we were able to connect by telephone. Today’s WordPress Daily Prompt is “Eyes“. While we talked I found a couple of her past posts that seem to fit the prompt, and she asked me to post links here. So, for your viewing (re)-pleasure, you may enjoy THIS post and THIS one.
Many of you know that Hurricane Patricia hit Mexico last night. It skirted Lake Chapala, where Judy lives. She and her dogs evacuated to a friend’s house at the urging of civil defense officials. I got word that all are doing well this morning, but she is currently without electricity and internet.
She is unable to post here or to read or respond to her emails. This just happened around 2 pm local time (CST) today (Saturday, Jan. 3), and it’s too early to know how or when she’ll be able to get back online.
Personally, I’ll be drinking much earlier & heavier until she’s back online.
UPDATE: It’s after midnight on Sat/Sun, and Judy has email access again, thanks to her Kindle. But she still can’t access her blog; I’m her seeing-eye duck here. (Her laptop may need a new motherboard. Ouch!)
(Um, hey, I just realized I’m in COMPLETE control of her blog now. What mischief may I set afoot herein, to strut and fret? The early rum made me do it. That will be my defense. Yeah, that’ll work.)
(An update is posted here)
Okcforgottenman, aka Duckie
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