Paid blogging

My entries here have slowed due to schedule changes with children and pondering where to go with my writing - specifically how to get paid for blogging.
This all comes at the same time I’m wondering and learning what God wants from me and what He might have me write.
What follows is what I’ve come up [...]

Thanks Be to God

I’d like to thank everyone who puts up with my comments at their blogs, my friends, employer and God for all the blessings they send my way.
 
So I will.
 
Thanks, all you bloggers over there at the blogroll to the left.
 
Thanks Jim http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/ and Marcus http://www.goodwordediting.com/ for your common sense, wisdom and responding to e-mails sent through other [...]

Testing Technorati

I’m testing technorati by inserting code here.
<a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/4shxr97j3a” rel=”me”>Technorati Profile</a>
So let’s see if this works.
This is important because I’m trying to figure out how to get everyone on the internet to read the posts I’m writing at Associated Content and Blogcritics.org. Both sites have assured me I’ll make lots of money.
Currently, the stuff I’m writing [...]

Around my bloghood with They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants puzzles my children, frequently keeps me entertained and sends e-mails to me.
I’ve worn out their album “Flood” and I’m on the band’s e-mailing list.
So I thought it was extra-special cool to find Marcus over at Good Word Editing featuring one of the band’s videos in his post on a devotional about [...]

Train, Train, take me on out of this town…

That’s how it went - the song by Blackfoot in the late 1970s with the killer blues harp.
And I could play the intro.
So naturally it was one of the first concerts I remember attending.
Jim sparked this entry with his blog entry here http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/2008/06/who-have-you-seen-live.html
Of course, a friend says “Sam, how could you forget seeing the Grand [...]

Story for my superhero children

Super Tiger Kung-Fu Girl and Amazing Reality Boy cornered Gargantuan Greedy Guy in the tree-house.
Despite the weight of their combined adjectives, the floor threatened to hold up.
Tiger Kung-Fu Girl dropped the “Super” from her name and then yelled “Tiger Claw!” at the villain while executing the martial arts move, rearranging the villain’s face.
Reality Boy reminded the [...]

Favorite Bible book = John’s Gospel

Jim tagged me for “Favorite book of the Bible” meme (note how I cut a preposition) and gave me something to ponder at the same time here http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/2008/05/meme-and-dilemma.html .
The meme started here http://www.subversiveinfluence.com/wordpress/?p=1610 .
Hope I’m doing that right and can now go on to defend my choice.
I have to mention runner-up is Revelations just for the imagery.
But [...]

Wooden Art Q&A

A static display of pine cones and sticks arranged by my daughter.
I’m rewriting this to get in some important (to me, at least) observations about nature, Noah’s Ark, Jesus, Christianity, Martha, Mary and Lazarus (a New Testament dysfunctional, strange family who hosted Jesus a lot) and anything else I might think of while viewing nature [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

My mother wins the award this year of “2008 Best Mother of The Year to Samuel Adams.”
Just thought all you should know that.
Here’s the honoree (above) enjoying flowers from her daughter and gourmet fruit and candy from her son.
Below, Mom and I at her granddaughter’s wedding a few years back.

Psyched Cyclone relief

Cyclone relief.
You decide if you want to help.
I tried to set an example and told my son about it.
My son, 10, asked what about Darfur?
Uh… right.
I said that relief there is important too, but right now I felt moved to help those in Myanmar.
He wasn’t impressed.
Maybe there’s a reason your gift-giving is supposed to be in [...]